Showing posts with label Jonathan Meese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Meese. Show all posts

Thursday, November 15, 2007

L'AMOUR DE MONTE-CRISTO Jonathan Meese show, at gallery Templon, Paris from October 27the to December 30th 2007



For those who are in Paris, i warmly recommend you this show, at the Daniel Templon art gallery, impasse Beaubourg. Jonathan Meese is showing some new paintings and sculptures . Most of the painting are portraits of dictators, officers or famous aristocrats, authocratic figures of our society. Is Jonathan Meese becoming an autocratic figure of the art world ?




Also, Meese was doing a performance for the opening of the show,at the Goethe institute, Paris. It's amazing to see how close the paintings and the performance are, pictorially speaking. Great moment !




Tuesday, November 13, 2007

the great wall


2006 11 04
Jonathan Meese poses as a Chinese revolutionary soldier at the Great Chinese Wall near Beijing, China
Jonathan Meese is a self-proclaimed cultural exorcist. In his performances, sculptures, and paintings he adopts a shamanistic role, schizophrenically channelling all manner of chaotic zeitgeist and psycho/media debris. In his self-portraits, Meese exaggerates his real-life ‘wild-man’ features, his image continuously mutating through a cast of characters – from demons to divas and superheroes – to develop potential narratives exploring the nature of power, corruption and contemporary mythology.

Jonathan Meese - tate modern london



Personne, actuellement, ne peut ignorer Jonathan Meese. Il appartient à l'élite des jeunes artistes allemands qui atteignent les sommets de la reconnaissance internationale. Cette star du shooting, l'"enfant terrible" de la scène artistique allemande, a passé son enfance près de Hambourg où il a fait ses études, à l'École des Beaux-Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste), jusqu'en 1998. Depuis cette date, il travaille à sa propre grande oeuvre baroque : peinture, sculpture, installations, performances, collages, vidéo, décors de théâtre et costumes.

« Jonathan Meese revendique une violence et une jeunesse éternelles; il se veut absolument libre et authentique, à l’image des artistes pariétaux dont l’art n’est que pure expression et que simple dégagement d’énergie créative, dépensière et gratuite. » Léa Bismuth