Mat Collishaw's shock tactics: 'Cruelty happening before your eyes'

New Art Gallery, Walsall
Massacred babies, death row meals, naked statues doing appalling things to each other … Collishaw’s grisly works challenge art’s relationship with violenceThe Massacre of the Innocents is one of western art’s most horrific themes. The slaughter of infants ordered by King Herod has been depicted among others by Bruegel as a war crime in a snowy village and by Poussin with an appalling intimate realism.Now Mat Collishaw has turned it into an evil t