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Jonathan Meese: David Nolan
Inspired by the singular if unfashionable vision of Franz Erhard Walther, under whom he studied at Hamburg's Hochschule fur Bildende Kiinste in the late 1990s, Jonathan Meese has developed a self-consciously grandiose vision of \"total art\" that continues to shape his output and its reception. This exhibition, \"DR. TRANS-FORM-ERZ,\" gathered seventy-odd drawings made by the German artist over the past twenty years or so, but only scratched the surface of his expansive and deliberately contrarian practice.
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\Grotesque!\ Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
The average person might not immediately associate the Germanic sensibility with a propensity to laugh, but that was precisely Charles Baudelaire's argument in the 1850s when he singled out Germany as a nation where \"all is weighty, profound and excessive\" and which was therefore particularly suited to the grotesque, a genre that, he said admiringly, inspires \"immediate laughter.'
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