In Town: Chapmans’ hellish party

With their unnerring understanding of how to garner publicity, and apparently working on the same principle as numerous TV companies – that anything with Nazis in it sells - the Chapman brothers unveiled their latest show, If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be, at the White Cube gallery at Mason's Yard, Mayfair, on Thursday night.

The principal work, F****** Hell, a remake of an earlier work, Hell, which perished in a fire at the art storage space Momart in 2004, has already been sold for £7m to an unnamed buyer. It features a nightmarish diorama arranged in the shape of a swastika, with tens of thousands of tiny plastic figures carrying out genocide and torture, while Adolf Hitler surveys the scene at his easel, paintbrush in hand. Among the viewers last night were Kate Moss (pictured), David Furnish and Roisin Murphy.

The show also features 13 original watercolours by Hitler, which the brothers brought from specialist dealers around the world for a total of £115,000. On these they have painted rainbows using psychedelic colours; they are on sale for more than £700,000 each. The third part of the exhibition features a series of classic oil portraits over which ghoulish masks and deformation have been painted.

Jake Chapman said he felt compelled to create Hell on Earth because "I couldn’t imagine a world without Hell". And he justified the re-working of Hitler's paintings thus: "We have made it our own. He would be spinning in his grave if he saw these. By mucking around with the past, we are making the future more apparent."