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Johnny Come Home II

Today, one might almost be tempted to think that there is nothing left to say about Jonathan Meese because the output of his artistic career, which started in 1998 at the Berlin Biennale, has been so immense. Since then, countless commentaries and reviews have been written about him, and he has been classified in numerous ways, all of which lend the title of his Biennale work, Ahoi de Angst, an almost prophetic quality – as if Meese had known that he would sail across wide seas.

Ahoi de Angst was a labyrinthine cabinet of curiosities full

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