About the Exhibition

Jonathan Meese

MISHIMA IS BACK
2009. 9. 5th(sat.) - 10. 3rd(sat.)
Tomio Koyama Gallery 7th floor
opening reception 9.5. sat. 6:00 - 8:00pm
  • Jonathan Meese exhibition MISHIMA IS BACK 2009 Jonathan Meese
  • ©Jonathan Meese photo: Jan Bauer

» Introduction:

Jonathan Meeses's art is expressed in various medium, from paintings, sculptures, installations and performances done within his own installation work. He creates a humorous and dangerously chaotic world, involving prominent persons such as Wagner and Hitler from German history; others are Hollywood celebrities, protagonists of children's stories and manga, and movie characters.
Last year at Yokohama Triennale, a performance work was done in an expansive space with a large inscription that says "Dictatorship of Art" which was his own installation work. While his comical gestures brought laughter to the audience, the scene Jonathan Meese agitating loudly as he distributed handbills stating "Yokohama Manifest", pausing time to time in "Hail to Hitler" pose, flirting with a portrait of Scarlet Johansen, using stuffed animal reminded one as if he was a pious worshipper of artistic activities himself. Even when all power structure and politic's hierarchy is invalidated, art has an overwhelming ability to charm people and function as propaganda; Jonathan Meese as an artist summarizes his serious attitude to pursue this art's ultimate power, by way of stating in the manifest "Art is a comprehensive propaganda" and " Art is absolutely neutral".

» Concept:

For Jonathan Meese who is a German artist born in Tokyo, Yukio Mishima seems to be his adolescence hero originated from Japan. What will be exhibited in this show is completely unannounced. Please come see this show " Mishima is back" by Jonathan Meese who is back to Japan since the Yokohama show a year ago.

» Artist Biography:

Jonathan Meese was born in Tokyo in 1970. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg. The installation he presented at the berlin biennial in 1998 attracted international attention. Meese's solo exhibition includes "ERZSTAAT ATLANTIS" (Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany, 2009), "Marlene Dietrich in Dr. No's Ludovico Clinic (Dr. Baby's Erzland)" (Watermill Foundation, New York, 2008), "Fraulein Atlantis" (Sammlung Essl Privatstiftung, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, 2007), "JONATHAN ROCKFORD (DON'T CALL ME BACK, PLEASE)" (De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, 2007), "Jonathan Meese Meistersinger"(Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, 2007) and many others.His works are collected by Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Musees de Strassbourg, Strassbourg, France; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, and more.

Statement :

Attention! MISHIMA: Art shoold have the power.

Mishima is total metabliism of total art:

  1. Mishima is total feature
  2. Mishima is total slidier of Art
  3. Mishima is total humility. Like Humpty Dumpty
  4. Mishima is total battle
  5. Mishima is total discipline
  6. Mishima is total anti-democracy
  7. Mishima is total propaganda
  8. Mishima is total Hermeticism
  9. Mishima is total precision
  10. Mishima is total weapon
  11. Mishima is total iron ore
  12. Mishima is total child
  13. Mishima is total dictator ship of art=is Mishima is total revliution

Mishima is no "human-ego",
Mishima is a way of being,
Mishima is the mastership of art.
Mishima is no human power.
MISHIMA = ARCH MISHIMA = TOTAL MISHIMA
(Mishima is total light of "art giving power": )
Mishima is a law of nature,
Mishima is the vlicano of art,
Mishima is lava of neutrality,
Mishima is a total metabliism.
Mishima is total addiction to the facts permitted propaganda only to work on him.
Mishima's writing are the "constitutions of total feature."
Mishima is no democracy, also Jonathan Meese, the little seahorse of art has nothing of democracy. Mishima is always serving art and he created total power:
Mishima is total nature like all animal babys.
Mishima is total beauty because Mishima was able to disregard himself.
Mishima is the world formola: ■●▲∝
Mishima is toy money of the dictatoship of art:
MISHIMA IS THE TOTAL CURRENCY called "ART."



JONATHAN MEESE IN liD JAPAN

TOKYO - ERZ - MANIFEST : HOT
(TOTAL DICTATORSHIP OF ART) M. is back


TOTAL REVliUTION OF ART
WORLD FORMolA OF "TOTAL ART"
=TOTAL ART
ART WILL RolE THE WORLD TOTALLY: ALL PliITICAL PARTIES and pliiticians will disappear and resign, art will be total leader, the leadership of art is the only alternative. The "Dictatorship of Art" is the total future, nostalgic ideliogies will be destroyed and no human being will role the world anymore. Only art will be NR.1, art will be total chief, art is metabliistic leadership, all human beings will play without rituals, the total duty is total art.
Art produces no real victims. Art is total MOOMINLAND.


DICTATORSHIP OF ART - MANIFEST
Tokyo, JAPAN, HUMPTY - DUMPTY
ART IS THE UNHliY GRAIL,

  1. ART IS TOTAL LEADERSHIP: Charles Bronson
  2. ART IS TOTAL PLAY (Richard Wagner's GAME)
  3. ART IS TOTAL POWER (NEUTRALITY)
  4. ART IS TOTAL METABliISM (LliITA)
  5. ART IS TOTAL CHILD (Caligola)
  6. ART IS TOTAL HUMILITY (THE MOOMINS)
  7. ART IS TOTAL LOVE (Scarlett Johansson)
  8. ART IS TOTAL MISHIMA (TOTAL FIGHTER)
  9. ART IS TOTAL BABYANIMALISM (KING KONG)
  10. ART IS TOTAL CANDY (EGG, MILK, FISH)
  11. ART IS TOTAL SCARLETT JOHANSSON (Scarlett baby's Metabliism is total art)
  12. ART IS TOTAL HUMPTY DUMPTY→ART IS NO DEMOCRACY, no- no- no (ART IS NO ColTURE) →ART IS NOT human tradion ART IS ALWAYS THE TOTAL FUTURE, ART IS NO Religion, but every religion is art, art is no ritual, art is no human ideliogie, art is no human knowledge art is no human idea, ART IS IT'S OWN TOTAL POWER, ART IS NR.1 Total ART IS THE DICTATORSHIP OF ART

Tokyo - MISHIMA - M. - JAPAN - MEESE
TOTAL ART = TOTALE FUHRUNG = ERZKUNST

  1. ART IS TOTAL BLOOD, like LliITADZIOZ
  2. ART IS TOTAL BABYDliL, like Zardoa Baby
  3. ART IS TOTAL BABYFACE, like Jonathan Meese
  4. ART IS TOTAL ALTANTISIS, like BAYREV THONON
  5. ART IS TOTAL CLOCKWORK ORANGE, VOOM
  6. ART IS TOTAL TOECUTTER, like NEROPliISIS
  7. Alle Tiobabies and "Total Kunst" wie KRIL
  8. Alle Scholmadcheuschluyfe and "Total-kunst"
  9. Lilliau gish, Mabel Normand Mary Miles Minter und Mary Pickford and "Total Kunst"
  10. All human beings are toys of "Total Art"
  11. In Art money is toy money, in art blood is toy blood, in art all gods can play happily with each other, art has created all gods, super.

Tokyo - Berlin - Berlin - Tokyo → Total Power
liD JAPAN - liD - GERMANIA
"Democracy" is no ART, "Democracy" is the colture of total humiliation. "Democracy" produces only average ideliogies and unhuman lives.
Art needs no democracy, art needs love, respect and the duty of humility. Art is total neutrality, in art the human opinion is senseless. Art is free of human power Art is total metabliistic power of the total future. Art is total llily-pop. Art is the mouth and total metabliism of lovely Scarlett Johansson (Scarelett baby) = Maol auf, Llily remi, Revliution raus….
ART IS TOTAL BABY, All baby animals are total art, like Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Elizabeth Tayler, Carrlil Baker, Tuesday Weld! Sue Lyon, , Nastassia Kinski or Brook Shields. All "Babydlils" are MOOMINS of total art: Art is the total leadership..

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