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Jonathan Meese.
, Tim Van Laere Books,, 2022 Hardcover, 156 pages / seiten, ENG / D, 255 x 205 mm, NEW, full of illustrations in colour / farbe. ISBN 9789464004168.
Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970 in Tokyo) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Jonathan Meese ( 1970 Tokyo, lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg) is renowned for his multi-faceted work, including wildly exuberant paintings, installations, ecstatic performances and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media. Apparently effortlessly, he has developed in all genres an independent and at the same time unique vocabulary that gives his work a variety, visual energy and quality which, according to Robert Fleck, has been unheard of since Picasso. Meese creates an expansive personal mythology, which also features characters inspired by history, legends and science fiction. Throughout his works you can find a not easily decodable system of signs/badges, neologisms, symbols, and figurative allusions to all types of power seekers, mythical personages and geniuses of history, stars and starlets of pop culture, or fictional heroes of novels and films. All of Meese?s works share a humor tending towards the grotesque, as well as a powerful, original creative will. Both are driven and supported by a striving for a rule of art, the dictatorship of art. What is meant here is the development of a new world order where art is the legislative power, and free play the foundation of all life and creation.This utopian approach runs like a leitmotif through all his works and brings his individual parts of the oeuvre together to form the Jonathan Meese Gesamtkunstwerk. He does not aim at anarchy, but rather the rule of metabolic necessity: ?Art is total play.? In this exhibition, Meese presents a new body of works, which capture the interplay of interior and exterior worlds, combining the phantasmagoria of the imagination with the bric- -brac of mundane reality. To him, art is osmosis. His paintings are filled with photosynthesis and mimicry, which allows us to enter the counter world. The self portraits and nudes point out that all self portraits are nude and all nudes are self portraits. Within the self portraits you can find the childhood of everything, with the ultimate self portrait being the embryo. According to Meese this exhibition celebrates ?the birth of the Gesamtkunstwerk?. This theme is also visualized in the large scale painting TOTAL RECALL (THE R.I.P.-DIDDLOIDEN ARE BACK TO FIGHT THE ?KAMPF UM KUNST (BIRTH OF GESAMTKUNSTWERK)). With this exhibition, he pays hommage to evolution, nature, love, power, collage, abstraction, animalism, and art itself. Meese celebrates especially the following artists and ?Spielkinder?: Van Gogh, Fidus, Warhol, Dali, Picasso, Balthus, Barbarella, Pippi Longstocking, and Moominism.
Jonathan Meese DR.50/50FITTYMEESE (Pump Away Reality)
Antwerpen , Tim Van Laere Books 2020, 2020 Bound, 136 pages, English. 25,5 x 20,5 cm, hardcover, Engels ISBN 9789464004014.
fourth solo exhibition of Jonathan Meese. The title DR. 50/50FITTYMEESE (Pump Away Reality) refers to the celebration of Meese?s 50th birthday on the day of the opening. The German artist Jonathan Meese (b. 1970, Tokyo, lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg) is presenting a new series of paintings and drawings Women this theme seems unusual for Meese at first sight, whose work is mainly identified with rather masculine dominated subjects like world history, original myths and heroic legends. On closer examination one discovers, though, that from the beginning women play an important role in Meese?s painterly and also sculptural work. His early paintings from 2000, show an almost classical approach of act painting, following the tradition of the femme fatale. Although his artistic expression has changed to a more and more abstract expressionist style, his women still often appear in the role of an enchantress, seductress, vampire or witch. But Meese was never really concerned with the destructive power of the female sex inherent in this theme. Nor was he intent upon gender-specific questions. He even queries them in his performances, playing the role of a woman (Zarathustra ? Die Gestalten sind unterwegs with Martin Wuttke in 2006), and in paintings showing figures with genitals of both sexes. To Meese the femme fatale is only interesting as an archetype of art, as a symbol of power. That applies to the image of the mother, too. Meese depicted his own mother, Brigitte, in many portraits and installations (MOR with TAL R in 2005)?as an animal, a general, a vampire and the goddess Isis and many more. Following Nietzsche, the mother in the artist?s eyes is ?the industry of nature.? Known for the deconstruction of pictorial codes, Meese renews in his latest work the persistent power of often clich d symbols which relate to the women as much as to love, the origin and nature: the heart, the spiral and the strawberry.
Jonathan Meese: Spitzenmeesige Women (Schniddeldiddelson)
Antwerpen , Tim Van Laere Books 2015, 2015 Bound, 106 pages, English.
In his second solo exhibition at the Tim Van Laere Gallery, the German artist Jonathan Meese (b. 1970, Tokyo, lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg) is presenting a new series of paintings and drawings focusing on women. They are starring his mother, Barbarella, Lolita, Fr ulein K.U.N.S.T., Scarlett Johansson, Mumina, Nofretete and Cara Delevingne, who currently is not only Britain?s favourite Topmodel but also Topgurner?making fun of herself by playing with her face, showing what a useful mask it is: a subversive, humorous and playful performative act Meese deeply relates to in his art. Women?this theme seems unusual for Meese at first sight, whose work is mainly identified with rather masculine dominated subjects like world history, original myths and heroic legends. On closer examination one discovers, though, that from the beginning women play an important role in Meese?s painterly and also sculptural work. His early paintings from 2000, show an almost classical approach of act painting, following the tradition of the femme fatale. Although his artistic expression has changed to a more and more abstract expressionist style, his women still often appear in the role of an enchantress, seductress, vampire or witch. But Meese was never really concerned with the destructive power of the female sex inherent in this theme. Nor was he intent upon gender-specific questions. He even queries them in his performances, playing the role of a woman (Zarathustra ? Die Gestalten sind unterwegs with Martin Wuttke in 2006), and in paintings showing figures with genitals of both sexes. To Meese the femme fatale is only interesting as an archetype of art, as a symbol of power. That applies to the image of the mother, too. Meese depicted his own mother, Brigitte, in many portraits and installations (MOR with TAL R in 2005)?as an animal, a general, a vampire and the goddess Isis and many more. Following Nietzsche, the mother in the artist?s eyes is ?the industry of nature.? Known for the deconstruction of pictorial codes, Meese renews in his latest work the persistent power of often clich d symbols which relate to the women as much as to love, the origin and nature: the heart, the spiral and the strawberry.
Jonathan Meese: Kunst ist Chef.
, Tim Van Laere Books, 2017 hardcover, 54 pages, kleurenillustraties, 25,5 21,5 cm, English. Fine! ISBN X.
Jonathan Meese ( 1970 Tokyo, lives and and works in Berlin and Hamburg) is renowned for his multi-faceted work, including wildly exuberant paintings, installations, ecstatic performances and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media. For this exhibition Jonathan Meese is presenting a new series of works focusing on science fiction. His works are starring Mr. Spock, ufologist Robert Dean, Darth Vader, Stanley Kubrick, UFO?s, John Boorman?s Zardoz, Edgar Wallace and extraterrestrial lifeforms. Science fiction has grown as a genre not only concerned with science, but by the 70?s also with consequences. It asked ?What if?? ?What if the world in which we live is not the reality?? ?What if there was an alternative universe with different laws and institutions As Rod Serling defines: fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible.? This statement can also be made about Art. In contrary to culture, Art has no boundaries. ?E.T? VS. ?DR. IDEOLOGY?, Art vs. culture. As Jonathan Meese states in his manifest: ?In the exhibition ?E.T.? VS. ?DR. IDEOLOGY? (JOHNNY FUZZY M. SINCLAIR) there will be many paintings, a round table, sculptures, photos, manifests and maybe a video. All this material is FUTURE. All this material has no Ideology. All this material is LOVE. All this material is Dictatorship of Art. Johnny Meese builds a Space-Ship of Total Art. The Gallery-Space is the Commander?s Headquarters of Total Art. Art is Total Love. The ?Round Table? is the wheel of Total Animalism. Johnny M. is the 1. Soldier of Total Art.?
Dragonbaby Johnny
, Tim Van Laere Books 2012, 2012 Hardcover, EN / D, unnumbered pages, illustrated in colour and b/w, fine condition, .
Dragonbaby "Johnny" 6 September - 20 October 2012
Arne Rautenberg : Vermeeren
, Darling Publications, 2007 Hardcover, 96 seiten, German, 220 x 135 x 18 mm, Neu, illustr. in farbe, . ISBN 9783939130284.
It's not every day that you hold such a beautiful and graphically appealing volume of poetry in your hands. See and read, that's what Arne Rautenberg says on almost 100 pages of collages and poems, with lyrical harlequinades and well thought-out pictorial poetry. The title says it all: Whoever hears it, hears the word "increase". Anyone who reads it reads a linguistically creative ?vermeeren?. Anyone who sees art as the focus thinks of Vermeer.
Mama Johnny
Köln, Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2007 In-4 cartonné 32,5 cm sur 24,5. 348 pages. Coin inférieur du premier plat plié, intérieur frais. État correct d’occasion.
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