The Humpty Dumpty machine of the total future

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The Humpty Dumpty Machine of the Total Future (Jonathan Meese)
The Humpty Dumpty machine of the total future
Jonathan Meese , 2010
Bronze casting
Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin (former location)

The Humpty Dumpty machine of the total future is a sculpture by Jonathan Meese . The bronze cast shows the futuristic interpretation of a flying machine and is approx. 2.30 m long.

Installation site

The figure created by Meese in 2010 was installed in March 2011 in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin in the Kolonnadenhof , which was reopened in 2010 after several years of renovation . It was the beginning of a series of projects on the role of representative monuments in contemporary sculpture . In September 2015 the equestrian statue The Monument by the artist collective Atelier van Lieshout was installed there.

At the end of August 2011, the sculpture could also be seen in St. Moritz on the Walk of Art in front of Badrutt's Palace Hotel as part of the Art Masters .

Emergence

Sculpture Bodestr 1-3 (middle) The Humpty-Dumpty machine Jonathan Meese.jpg

According to the artist, Emma was the locomotive , locomotive 1414 , the time machine , the sandman's vehicle , Chitti Chitti Bang Bang , the Nautilus , Ben Hur's chariot, the Snow Queen's sleigh , Diablos ' afterlife carriage , vehicles from Mad Max films and Moby Dick godfather for the artwork. Meese characterizes his bronze object as forward-oriented: "The baby spaceship flies only forward without a rearview mirror, without railing and without nostalgia, great, great, great."

The original concept was "animal with naked woman"; the animal became a machine and man disappeared. The work of art was first created as a geometric sketch from which a small model developed. The next stage was then a large Styrofoam model, which was then "ore processed". The bronze foundry employees were involved in this step in order to guarantee a stable basic model on which the details could build. The sculpture was cast in the Noack art foundry . The final processing of the surfaces, including mechanical and chemical treatment, was also carried out by Noack specialists.

reception

The gallery owner Philipp Haverkampf says on Bild.de that the work is "a crazy mixture of time machine, spaceship and the sledge of the sandman". Looking at it, you can see bizarre details such as geometric shapes, the iron cross and a beer bottle.

According to Tagesspiegel , the term Humpty Dumpty in the title refers to the talking egg in Lewis Carroll's children 's book Alice Behind the Mirrors . The motley flying machine from flea market finds looks like a foreign body in the colonnaded courtyard between the well-proportioned statues of classic sculpture schools.

Meeses Plastik is part of the educational canon of a total of 100 works that the Zeit editorial team compiled from readers' letters in the autumn of 2018 in the areas of film / video, music, literature, architecture and art.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anke Kuckuck: Artist at Noack: Jonathan Meese. Bronze is boss, the most radical glandular fluid in art. In: NOAX magazine. Bildgießerei Hermann Noack, November 2010, pp. 10–13 , accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c C. Wilewski: BILD.de explains the new UFO artwork by Jonathan Meese. In: BILD.de. Axel Springer SE, March 24, 2011, accessed on June 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ New sculpture in the colonnaded courtyard of the Alte Nationalgalerie: The Monument by Atelier Van Lieshout , smb.museum, September 14, 2015
  4. ↑ St. Moritz Art Masters 2011. In: Walk of Art. St. Moritz Arts Masters International AG, May 2011, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Andrea Backhaus: The pour of time. In: welt.de. Axel Springer SE, January 30, 2011, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Anna Pataczek: Heavenward . Jonathan Meese's sculpture in the courtyard of the National Gallery. In: Tagesspiegel Online. Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, April 12, 2011, accessed on June 8, 2020 . For the bronze sculptures from the collection of the Nationalgalererie in the outdoor area see [1]
  7. ↑ Ann-Kristin Tlusty, Julia Meyer, Judith Luig: A canon of polyphony. In: The time. Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius, August 30, 2018, accessed June 6, 2020 .