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Jonathan Meese
2001
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Lolitadzioz
Jonathan Meese
2001
Hamburg and Berlin: Self-published
104 pages
31 × 21 cm
Edition of 40; signed and numbered 20/40

Jonathan Meese’s artistic practice is propelled by a playful yet grotesque sensibility, constructing a personal microcosm shaped by his enduring obsessions with both high and low culture. Pornographic imagery coexists with figures as diverse as the Marquis de Sade, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Bacon, and John Wayne, all absorbed into a sprawling mythology that collapses distinctions between history, popular culture, fiction, and ideology. At once irreverent and deeply informed, Meese’s imaginary universe shares affinities with Mike Kelley’s exploration of the Freudian uncanny, where familiar icons return in unsettling and often absurd forms.


 


Throughout his anarchic and wide-ranging oeuvre, Meese continually expands this mythology through painting, performance, drawing, and installation, appropriating historical, mythical, and cinematic protagonists to interrogate systems of power, authorship, and belief. In this self-published stapled booklet, from an edition of 40 (each unique), he brings together his deliberately naïve drawings of heroes and nemeses with two original photographs, magazine clippings, and loose illustrations, weaving them into a fragmented visual narrative. Oscillating between parody and provocation, the publication extends Meese’s investigations into ideology and what he famously calls the "dictatorship of art."

Hamburg and Berlin: Self-published
104 pages
31 × 21 cm
Edition of 40; signed and numbered 20/40

Jonathan Meese’s artistic practice is propelled by a playful yet grotesque sensibility, constructing a personal microcosm shaped by his enduring obsessions with both high and low culture. Pornographic imagery coexists with figures as diverse as the Marquis de Sade, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Bacon, and John Wayne, all absorbed into a sprawling mythology that collapses distinctions between history, popular culture, fiction, and ideology. At once irreverent and deeply informed, Meese’s imaginary universe shares affinities with Mike Kelley’s exploration of the Freudian uncanny, where familiar icons return in unsettling and often absurd forms.

 

Throughout his anarchic and wide-ranging oeuvre, Meese continually expands this mythology through painting, performance, drawing, and installation, appropriating historical, mythical, and cinematic protagonists to interrogate systems of power, authorship, and belief. In this self-published stapled booklet, from an edition of 40 (each unique), he brings together his deliberately naïve drawings of heroes and nemeses with two original photographs, magazine clippings, and loose illustrations, weaving them into a fragmented visual narrative. Oscillating between parody and provocation, the publication extends Meese’s investigations into ideology and what he famously calls the "dictatorship of art."

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Jonathan Meese’s artistic practice is propelled by a playful yet grotesque sensibility, constructing a personal microcosm shaped by his enduring obsessions with both high and low culture. Pornographic imagery coexists with figures as diverse as the Marquis de Sade, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Bacon, and John Wayne, all absorbed into a sprawling mythology that collapses distinctions between history, popular culture, fiction, and ideology. At once irreverent and deeply informed, Meese’s imaginary universe shares affinities with Mike Kelley’s exploration of the Freudian uncanny, where familiar icons return in unsettling and often absurd forms.

 

Throughout his anarchic and wide-ranging oeuvre, Meese continually expands this mythology through painting, performance, drawing, and installation, appropriating historical, mythical, and cinematic protagonists to interrogate systems of power, authorship, and belief. In this self-published stapled booklet, from an edition of 40 (each unique), he brings together his deliberately naïve drawings of heroes and nemeses with two original photographs, magazine clippings, and loose illustrations, weaving them into a fragmented visual narrative. Oscillating between parody and provocation, the publication extends Meese’s investigations into ideology and what he famously calls the "dictatorship of art."

Hamburg and Berlin: Self-published
104 pages
31 × 21 cm
Edition of 40; signed and numbered 20/40

Jonathan Meese’s artistic practice is propelled by a playful yet grotesque sensibility, constructing a personal microcosm shaped by his enduring obsessions with both high and low culture. Pornographic imagery coexists with figures as diverse as the Marquis de Sade, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Bacon, and John Wayne, all absorbed into a sprawling mythology that collapses distinctions between history, popular culture, fiction, and ideology. At once irreverent and deeply informed, Meese’s imaginary universe shares affinities with Mike Kelley’s exploration of the Freudian uncanny, where familiar icons return in unsettling and often absurd forms.

 

Throughout his anarchic and wide-ranging oeuvre, Meese continually expands this mythology through painting, performance, drawing, and installation, appropriating historical, mythical, and cinematic protagonists to interrogate systems of power, authorship, and belief. In this self-published stapled booklet, from an edition of 40 (each unique), he brings together his deliberately naïve drawings of heroes and nemeses with two original photographs, magazine clippings, and loose illustrations, weaving them into a fragmented visual narrative. Oscillating between parody and provocation, the publication extends Meese’s investigations into ideology and what he famously calls the "dictatorship of art."

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Jonathan Meese’s artistic practice is propelled by a playful yet grotesque sensibility, constructing a personal microcosm shaped by his enduring obsessions with both high and low culture. Pornographic imagery coexists with figures as diverse as the Marquis de Sade, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Bacon, and John Wayne, all absorbed into a sprawling mythology that collapses distinctions between history, popular culture, fiction, and ideology. At once irreverent and deeply informed, Meese’s imaginary universe shares affinities with Mike Kelley’s exploration of the Freudian uncanny, where familiar icons return in unsettling and often absurd forms.

 

Throughout his anarchic and wide-ranging oeuvre, Meese continually expands this mythology through painting, performance, drawing, and installation, appropriating historical, mythical, and cinematic protagonists to interrogate systems of power, authorship, and belief. In this self-published stapled booklet, from an edition of 40 (each unique), he brings together his deliberately naïve drawings of heroes and nemeses with two original photographs, magazine clippings, and loose illustrations, weaving them into a fragmented visual narrative. Oscillating between parody and provocation, the publication extends Meese’s investigations into ideology and what he famously calls the "dictatorship of art."

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