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Jonathan Meese, prolific and controversial, is a German painter, sculptor, performance and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. The artist views art as completely independent of human influence, with its own instinct, reality, politics and confusion. His works are filled with references to history, literature, pop culture and the art world, expressing the repressed, taboo, abject and absurd. To cite the Tate Modern, London, Meese’s installations and performances are some of the most provocative and dynamic to have emerged in Germany during the past decade.
On the occasion of Meese’s first solo exhibition in India, presented by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, the Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts in collaboration with the gallery presents a solo performance by the artist. Meese provides spectators with an overload of shocking stimuli which can prove overwhelming. Critics have placed him in the tendency of ‘Newactionists’; his work remains visceral, sensationalist, and thought-provoking, in the aesthetics of chaos/excess that is the representation of the pulse of his generation.