quarta-feira, fevereiro 22, 2006

Just take the plane and go...

JONATHAN MEESE: NOEL COWARD IS BACK
Tate Modern
Saturday 25 February [10 - 11pm]
Bankside, SE1 T:020.7887.8888
Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars




German artist Jonathan Meese's work takes on many forms from intense paintings and installations to the most animated and energetic aspect of his working practice, performance. Within all of Meese's work, the artist explores the dissemination of power through the characterisation and acting out of historical figures that have attempted, with varying degrees of success and catastrophic failure, to manipulate its propagation. Meese's resulting performances are often aggressive and highly charged and the landscapes within which they take place are filled with the paraphernalia you might imagine obsessive fans to amass over years of careful hoarding. Meese, however, creates these arenas from the detritus of manias grown out of or fallen redundant, abandoned in thrift shops and jumble sales. His own fascination with pop-history fuels an understanding of obsession that gives a captivating reality to his peformances. Motifs reappear in differing guises and are often linked to military or religious imagery. However, the most powerful element present within all of Meese's work is language. Using his own lexicon of created words Meese effortlessly moves within a linguistic system that is mesmeric but not always intelligible to the outsider. The performance will take place within a boxing ring on the bridge across the Turbine Hall, looming above Rachael Whiteread's Unilever offering and definitely promising to be a typically captivating Meesian spectacle.

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Anónimo disse...

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