until Saturday February 21 2015

Opening January 10, 2015 from 5PM to 8:30PM

Galerie Daniel Templon
T : +33 (0)1 42 72 14 10
30, rue Beaubourg
75003 Paris
France

Founder
Daniel Templon

Director
Anne-Claudie Coric
accoric@danieltemplon.com

Four years after his last exhibition, Jonathan Meese is returning to Galerie Templon with a previously unseen series of paintings centring on Parsifal, Richard Wagner’s final masterpiece.

A self-proclaimed high priest of the dictatorship of art, Jonathan Meese puts all his considerable creative energy into what Wagner called a “festival play for the consecration of the stage.” Meese is obsessed, possessed, by his subject, inspired by the vitalist energy displayed by the opera’s heroes – the youthful Parsifal, Klingsor the fallen knight, the diabolical Kundry and Gurnemanz the wise man.