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Catalogue Jonathan Meese. Dr Merlin de Large (Marquis Zed de Baby-Excalibur)

Jonathan Meese - Publisher Liénart - Ouvrage broché - 64 pages - Text in Bilingue Français / English - Published in 2017

Jonathan Meese, born in Tokyo in 1970, ranks among today's most colorful German artists. Extensive, obsessive, and radical, his oeuvre shows a definite actionist character.

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Model 9782359061963
Artist Jonathan Meese
Author Numa Hambursin
Publisher Liénart
Format Ouvrage broché
Number of pages 64
Language Bilingue Français / English
Dimensions 240 x 160
Technique(s) 50 illustrations
Published 2017
Museum Carré Sainte-Anne, Montpellier

Exhibition Catalogue Jonathan Meese. Dr Merlin de Large (Marquis Zed de Baby-Excalibur) presented at the Carré Sainte-Anne, Montpellier (15 feb. - 30 apr. 2017).

Employing all media, Meese combines painting, drawing, and sculpture with collages, texts, and collections of material to sprawling installations resembling towering piles of high art and trash. Each of his statements - which oscillate between provocation, blasphemy, catharsis, exorcism, and criticism of the political system - is art and only seemingly pretentious and insolent.

Meese rather follows in the tradition of the Dadaists who regarded the "mumblings of lunatics and children" and nonsense as the only way back to elementary truths: art is a child's game in the true sense of the word to be attained with nothing less than a complete change of system from "democracy or some other form of government made by people" to the "dictatorship of art."

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