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ARTIST MONOGRAPHS

Jonathan Meese

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


                     

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Jonathan Meese: Drawings Vol. I

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Text by Nicole Hackert.

Flexi, 9.75 x 13.25 in. / 370 pgs / 355 color. | 9/26/2017 | In stock
$39.95


Jonathan Meese: Dr. Trans-Form-Erz

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN/DAVID NOLAN GALLERY
Edited with text by David Nolan. Text by Pamela Kort.

Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 104 pgs / 80 color / 2 bw. | 5/23/2017 | In stock
$40.00


Jonathan Meese: Drawings

VERLAG FüR MODERNE KUNST
Text by Roberto Ohrt.

Pbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 64 pgs / 40 color. | 9/27/2016 | In stock
$28.00


Jonathan Meese: Malermeese--Meesermaler

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Text by Robert Eikmeyer, Harald Falckenberg, Doris Mampe, Christine Penetsdorfer, Sebastian Preuss, Daniel Schreiber, Roland Schöny, Veit Ziegelmaier.

Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 180 pgs / 100 color. | 3/31/2014 | Out of stock
$49.95


Jonathan Meese: Totalzelbstportrait

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Doede Hardemann, Doris Mampe. Foreword by Benno Temple. Text by Lynne van Rhijn.

Clth, 7 x 9.75 in. / 200 pgs / 111 color. | 8/31/2012 | In stock
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Jonathan Meese: Totalste Graphik

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Björn Egging. Text by Björn Egging, Friederike Fast.

Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 100 color. | 8/31/2012 | In stock
$59.95


Jonathan Meese: The Arch-State of Atlantisis

DUMONT
Text by Oliver Kornhoff, Daniel J. Schreiber, et al.

Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 187 color / DVD (PAL & NTSC). | 2/28/2010 | In stock
$59.95


Jonathan Meese: Totaler Metabolismus

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Hbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 384 pgs / 370 color / DVD. | 2/28/2010 | Out of stock
$76.00


Jonathan Meese: Totale Neutralität

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Hbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 150 pgs / 114 color / DVD (PAL). | 8/31/2009 | Out of stock
$60.00


Jonathan Meese: Drawings. Vol. I

WALTHER KöNIG/CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, BERLIN

Hardback, 10 x 13.5 in. / 370 pgs / 360 color. | 3/1/2008 | Out of stock
$325.00


Jonathan Meese: Mama Johnny

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Robert Fleck. Text by Yves Aupetitallot, Aeneas Bastian, Robert Fleck, Fabrice Hergott, Vibeke Knudsen, Veit Loers, Friedrich Meschede, Karel Schampers, Susanne Titz.

Hardback, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 300 pgs. | 3/1/2007 | Out of stock
$75.00


    

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Jonathan Meese: Dash Snow Fanzine

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN/CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, BERLIN

Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 46 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 4/30/2011 | Not available
$18.00


Jonathan Meese & Peter Laudenbach: Das Theater Ist Ein Tank

WALTHER KöNIG/CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, BERLIN

Paperback, 9 x 12.5 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 12/15/2007 | Not available
$40.00


Jonathan Meese: Dr. Trans-Form-ErzJonathan Meese: Dr. Trans-Form-Erz

Published by Walther König, Köln/David Nolan Gallery.
Edited with text by David Nolan. Text by Pamela Kort.

Published to accompany an exhibition at David Nolan Gallery, Jonathan Meese showcases the painting, drawing and sculpture of the German artist (born 1970). Addressing certain uneasy aspects of German political history, Meese’s work adopts ideological symbols only to empty them of meaning.



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Walther König, Köln/David Nolan Gallery

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Paperback, 8 x 10.75 in. / 104 pgs / 80 color / 2 bw.

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Jonathan Meese: Drawings Vol. IJonathan Meese: Drawings Vol. I

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Text by Nicole Hackert.

This hefty book presents 355 early drawings by Jonathan Meese (born 1970), made between 1993 and 1997 and rendered in ball-point pen, felt-tip and watercolor on humble typewriter paper.



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Walther König, Köln

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Jonathan Meese: DrawingsJonathan Meese: Drawings

Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst.
Text by Roberto Ohrt.

This volume offers a selection of hitherto unpublished drawings by German performance and installation artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970). The collection includes all phases of his work, plus a discussion of his recent controversial performance piece featuring the Nazi salute.

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Verlag für moderne Kunst

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Paperback, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 64 pgs / 40 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 157   

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Jonathan Meese: Malermeese--MeesermalerJonathan Meese: Malermeese--Meesermaler

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Text by Robert Eikmeyer, Harald Falckenberg, Doris Mampe, Christine Penetsdorfer, Sebastian Preuss, Daniel Schreiber, Roland Schöny, Veit Ziegelmaier.

Over the past 20 years, German painter, sculptor, performance and installation artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970) has explored themes of ancient myths, heroic epics and history (particularly that of Germany). This catalogue is the most comprehensive retrospective of his provocative work.

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Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 180 pgs / 100 color.

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Jonathan Meese: TotalzelbstportraitJonathan Meese: Totalzelbstportrait

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Doede Hardemann, Doris Mampe. Foreword by Benno Temple. Text by Lynne van Rhijn.

“To express yourself in art is horrible,” German artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970) once said. In this volume, he proves his point with a body of work that consists exclusively of self-portraits ranging from graffitied photos to collages, and paintings both realistic and abstracted, until their subject, himself, loses its personal significance.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

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Clth, 7 x 9.75 in. / 200 pgs / 111 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 167   

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Jonathan Meese: Totalste GraphikJonathan Meese: Totalste Graphik

Catalogue Raisonné 2003-2011

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Björn Egging. Text by Björn Egging, Friederike Fast.

Over the last 15 years, German artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970) has created around 100 printed works, which are presented here in their entirety along with a formal catalogue raisonné of his print production. The large-format lithographs, etchings and woodcuts generally depict effigies, which serve both as metaphors of cultural history and the alter ego of the artist.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 100 color.

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Jonathan Meese: Die Diktatur der Kunst, Das radikalste BuchJonathan Meese: Die Diktatur der Kunst, Das radikalste Buch

Published by Walther König, Köln.

This may be Jonathan Meese's most insolent and confrontational artist's book to date. With the nihilism of the disenfranchised, and a hint of play, Meese relentlessly rages against all historical and contemporary social orders, declaring them failed and henceforth completely redundant. The accompanying DVD presents Meese's live performance and declaration of the Dictatorship of Art.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / illustrated throughout / DVD (PAL).

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Catalog: SPRING 2010 p. 119   

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Jonathan Meese: Dash Snow FanzineJonathan Meese: Dash Snow Fanzine

Published by Walther König, Köln/Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.

New York artist Dash Snow’s death in July 2009, two weeks before his 28th birthday, sent waves of grief through the art world and prompted numerous homage exhibits and events. In 2007, Snow had visited Berlin for his exhibition The End of Living, the Beginning of Survival, held at Contemporary Fine Arts. Photographers Jan Bauer, Bruno Brunnet, Jochen Littkemann, Franziska Sinn and Lutz Weinmann were on hand to record the visit, and for this homage fanzine/artist’s book, the German multimedia artist Jonathan Meese has selected from their photographs to memorialize and celebrate his friend. Meese collages abstract geometrical paper shapes, scrawls comments, adds big globs and splashes of paint to the images of Snow in Berlin, rendering the chaotic, prolific creative energies of both Snow and himself in a defiant visual eulogy.

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Walther König, Köln/Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

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Paperback, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 46 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 130   

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Jonathan Meese: The Arch-State of AtlantisisJonathan Meese: The Arch-State of Atlantisis

Published by DuMont.
Text by Oliver Kornhoff, Daniel J. Schreiber, et al.

This volume collects the complete sculptural work of Jonathan Meese—which tend to quickly spill over into paintings, installation, video and collage. Meese is the maker of his own cosmos, which is inhabited by Caligula, Stalin, the Marquis de Sade, Richard Wagner, Balthus and Dr. No, to name only a few. Pursuing this cosmos, Meese has now rediscovered Atlantis and here reaches “The Arch-State of Atlantisis.”

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DuMont

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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 187 color / DVD (PAL & NTSC).

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Jonathan Meese: Totaler MetabolismusJonathan Meese: Totaler Metabolismus

Published by Walther König, Köln.

Berlin-based performance and multimedia artist Jonathan Meese strikes against “creativity” as a fashionable form of exclusive self-actualization via a storm of propaganda consisting of almost 400 collages and belligerent hand-illustrated manifestos. The book's title suggests a proclamation of the most ultra-radical utopia of all time, what its maker terms a “Dictatorship of Art.”

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 8.5 x 12 in. / 384 pgs / 370 color / DVD.

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Jonathan Meese: Totale NeutralitätJonathan Meese: Totale Neutralität

Published by Walther König, Köln.

In a torrent of collages, drawings, photos of the artist and bold Teutonic graphics, Jonathan Meese's Totale Neutralität expresses his dream of a utopian "dictatorship of art," with the credo that "art must be more radical than reality, then the evil spirits don't stand a chance." This artist's book includes a DVD showing Meese at work, installing an exhibition and in his studio in Berlin.

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Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 8.5 x 12 in. / 150 pgs / 114 color / DVD (PAL).

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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 129   

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Jonathan Meese: Drawings. Vol. IJonathan Meese: Drawings. Vol. I

Published by Walther König/Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.

In his early drawings from the 1990s--with their energetically-rendered juxtapositions of text and image--German artist Jonathan Meese gave voice to a particularly contemporary strain of abjection: “Soon I’ll have a lot to say, sorry,” reads one. “I feel like I’m shuddering all over,” declares another. And a third is helpfully labeled, “This is someone burning from the inside out.” Continuing in this vein, Meese’s captions illustrate hundreds of works--created on his mother’s living room floor while he was in his twenties, with the cheapest available materials. They feature Expressionistic figures with distorted features--and, though drawn with great urgency, feel very delicately composed. As seen together in this volume, the importance of these drawings emerges. They are the angst-filled foundation of Meese’s mature work--a tortured mélange of installation, sculpture and performance that is infamously contentious and internationally renowned.

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Walther König/Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

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Jonathan Meese & Peter Laudenbach: Das Theater Ist Ein TankJonathan Meese & Peter Laudenbach: Das Theater Ist Ein Tank

Published by Walther König/Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.

In this well-documented artist's book related to his 2007 performance De Frau (The Woman), the radical young artist and "cultural exorcist" Jonathan Meese elaborates on why theater is central to his work. Text and handwritten notes in German only.

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Walther König/Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

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Paperback, 9 x 12.5 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 162   

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Jonathan Meese: Mama JohnnyJonathan Meese: Mama Johnny

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Robert Fleck. Text by Yves Aupetitallot, Aeneas Bastian, Robert Fleck, Fabrice Hergott, Vibeke Knudsen, Veit Loers, Friedrich Meschede, Karel Schampers, Susanne Titz.

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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Walther König, Köln

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Hardback, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 300 pgs.

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Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 158   

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