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Large-scale installation by Jonathan Meese at Bortolami Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami presents Jonathan Meese’s third exhibition at the gallery, conceived as a continuation of his current Total Self-Portrait show at GEM (Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in The Hague, Netherlands. The exhibition includes a large-scale installation in the main space, in which photographs, posters, painted panels, bronze sculptures, paintings and wooden structures, act as a contemplation of himself as artist, a personal exploration of his assumed role. Since Meese’s days as a student, performance and installation have been a pivotal part of his art, both formally and in content, always related to theater and film. His installations have been platforms for his ideas about the autonomy of art, which he expresses in the ubiquitous term “Dictatorship of Art.” As remarked in the catalogue of his exhibition at GEM: “At first glance, Meese’s art has a raw, unscrupulous feel. It h