{"product_id":"staatsterrorismussys","title":"Staatsterrorismussys","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJonathan 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, John Wayne, and Egyptian pharaohs, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThroughout 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, syncopated poetry, and personal notes with two original photographs (portraits of himself), Japanese illustrations, and pin-ups, weaving them into a fragmented visual and textual narrative. Oscillating between parody and provocation, the publication extends Meese’s investigations into ideology and what he famously calls the \"dictatorship of art.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54215709524307,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Meese25_40.png?v=1783349232","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/staatsterrorismussys","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}