CARNIVAL OF CLUTTER: DINOS CHAPMAN

BEYOND NOISE'S SECOND ISSUE STEPS INTO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DINOS CHAPMAN.

By Libby Hsieh

Dinos Chapman doesn’t just make art—he cracks open reality and lets the madness spill out. A master of the mischievous and the macabre, he’s spent decades twisting the ordinary into the extraordinary, playing with beauty, horror, and everything in between. From his early days as one half of the infamous Chapman duo, Dinos makes work that provokes, tickles untouched muscles, and occasionally terrifies. He takes a magnifying glass to the everyday and exposes it for all its peculiarity, like the act of saying a word over and over until it no longer carries any meaning.

In his solo adventures, Dinos imagines—he plays. And play, despite all its appearances, is serious business. That business brings us to Alice in Wonderland: that sweet, intoxicating, topsy-turvy world where logic bends, clocks melt, and rules do somersaults. For Beyond Noise’s second issue insert and special-edition slipcase, Dinos didn’t politely nod at Lewis Carroll’s dreamscape. He waltzed in and threw paint at the walls. In his hands, Alice’s world isn’t just whimsy. It’s a dimension home to the wild and wicked, laced with deliciously unsettling contradictions, like the syrupy taste of antifreeze.

To Dinos, play is the key to unlocking wonder, to finding joy in the absurd, to bridging the gap between delight and dread. His imaginations—whether on canvas, in sculpture, or on screen—carry the unmistakable whispers of a world just slightly off-kilter. A world that dares you to step inside.