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Jonathan Meese Die Verschworung des Dr. Pottsau 2003 Oil paint and two one American Dollar bills on canvas in three parts. Overall: 210 x 420 cm. (82 3/4 x 165 1/2 in). Initialed, titled and dated 'JM Die Verschworung des Dr. Pottsau 2003' lower right; signed, titled and dated 'Jonathan Meese Die Verschworung des Dr. Pottsau 2003' on the reverse of each panel.
Provenance Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin; Private collection, Asia Catalogue Essay "The dictatorship in art is the only possible anti-nostalgic world view for the future. Art is not religion, but every religion is art.The usurpation of power by ‘that thing called art' is the only solution. Sorry." (Jonathan Meese as quoted in H.W. Holzwarth, Art Now,Vol. 3, Cologne, 2008, p. 314) As Berlin has attracted increased attention as a mecca for young artists and a site of significant production, Jonathan Meese has emerged as the scene's reigning bad boy. Far from playing the role of the self-indulgent enfant terrible, however, Meese's loose-cannon reputation stems from his status as a self-proclaimed cultural exorcist, an artist-prophet with little choice to express the energy and vision as a vessel for an artistic force greater than himself. Since attending the Hamburg Hochschule fur bildende Kunste Meese has exploded into public consciousness in a flurry of paintings, sculptures, installations and performances, producing terrifying visions of the future with the help of a voracious appetite for cultural iconography and a viscerally primitive style reminiscent of De Kooning and Jean-Michel-Basquiat. Read More