Exhibition open by appointment only.
For Marlene Dietrich in Dr. No’s Ludovico-Clinic (Dr. Baby’s Erzland), Jonathan Meese incorporating The Watermill Center’s eclectic collection, transforming Robert Wilson’s pure design into a fantastic, ever-changing assemblage of cult, kitsch and historical relics.
The installation at Watermill was a vibrant hybrid of two artistic minds that both tend towards the “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or complete and integrated artwork. Wilson explained to Meese the logic of his place and collection. Meese then set about deconstructing and re-imagining it while working at Watermill until Watermill’s Summer Benefit on July 26, 2008. The installation premiered two new gigantic bronze sculptures that are currently being cast in Germany.
Jonathan Meese is a German artist who lives in Ahrensburg and Berlin. He considers himself self-proclaimed cultural exorcist. In his performances, sculptures and paintings he adopts a shamanistic role, channelling all manner of chaotic zeitgeist. His personal interests reverberate throughout his paintings: comic books, horror films, medieval crusades and outsider art merge into a compendium of morality and epic failure.
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