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TWO DIVIDED BY ZERO:
ISAAC JULIEN & DEREK JARMAN
In the 1977 film Jubilee, by Derek
Jarman, Queen Elizabeth I is seen staring
at the sculptural figures of the artistic
great and the good moulded onto the
relief of the Albert Memorial, situated
on the edge of London’s Kensington
Gardens. Such meditations on art, society
and identity were a recurring theme
throughout Jarman’s career, and this
month his work returns to the same
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Tilda Swinton, the film plays havoc
Jonathan Meese is a kind
with the rules of nonfiction narrative
of artist rarely to be found
and stretches between the notions of
outside Germany – or indeed
art installation and feature film.
within. Teutonic and Some of his best work has been
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histrionic, he often seems done in collaboration or seen
too wild to be sincere. in counterpoint with that of
Derek Jarman curateD By Isaac
His schizoid ranting has other artists — among them
JulIen, 23 FEBruAry – 13 APrIL
been described as pseudo, Jörg Immendorff, Albert
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his primitivism as faux and oehlen, Daniel richter and
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his romanticism as ersatz. Tal r – so there’s good reason
It doesn’t appear to have to hope for fireworks at his
occurred to many that Meese’s show at CFA Berlin alongside
invocation of a sort of primal leading expressionist Georg
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