Jonathan Meese

"The dictatorship of art is the most radical ever formulated since the beginning of human thought." What provokes Jonathan Meese to make this assertion can be discovered in this, his most insolent and radical artists book to date. He relentlessly rages against all historical and contemporary social orders and declares them failed and henceforth completely redundant.

Das radikalste Buch

Diktatur der Kunst

Total Metabolism is, according to Jonathan Meese, the most passionate of all forms of metabolic process. The radically progressive artist sees himself, and each and every one of his artist colleagues, as nothing other than that. 'The human being is merely an animal that eats and shits', which leads to Meese's definition: 'All people are the same!' Anyone who rejects this law of nature seeks self-actualisation at any cost. They want to distinguish themselves from the rest of the human race through creativity and elevate this minimal personal difference to the status of a law. Meese strikes against the zeitgeist phenomen on 'creativity' in a storm of propaganda with over 380 belligerent collages and hand-illustrated manifestos. In this work, the 'metabolic' doesn't criticise, rather it humbly recalls the proclamation of the most ultra-radical utopia of all time: the 'Dictatorship of Art'.

Jonathan Meese: Totaler Metabolismus

Robert Fleck

This collection of paintings, sculptures and collaborations including stage sets for a production of Frank Castorf's Kokain is the first comprehensive survey of Meese's major incursions into the German art scene.

Aegidius Suite

Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Annette Sievert

This collection of paintings, sculptures and collaborations including stage sets for a production of Frank Castorf's Kokain is the first comprehensive survey of Meese's major incursions into the German art scene. The artist was born in Tokyo, lives in Berlin and has shown at the Tate Modern.

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