Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft

Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft (The Humpty-Dumpty machine of the total future) is a bronze sculpture created 2010 by Jonathan Meese, and installed at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, during 2011–2015.[1]

Die Humpty-Dumpty-Maschine der totalen Zukunft
The sculpture in 2013
ArtistJonathan Meese
Year2010 (2010)
MediumBronze sculpture
LocationBerlin, Germany

Creation

The original concept was "animal with naked woman"; the animal became a machine and the human disappeared. The work of art was first created as a geometric sketch from which a small model was developed. The next step was a large polystyrene model, which was then "ore-machined". The sculpture was cast in the Hermann Noack art foundry. The employees of the bronze foundry were involved in this step to guarantee a stable basic structure on which the details could be built. The final processing of the surfaces including mechanical and chemical treatment was also carried out by the Noack specialists.[2]

According to the artist, models for his work of art were: the Nautilus, Emma the steam locomotive, Lok 1414, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, vehicles from Mad Max films, Ben Hur's chariot, the_Snow_Queen's sleigh, the Sandman's vehicle and the time machine. Meese characterizes his bronze object as forward-looking: "The baby spaceship flies forward only, without a rear-view mirror, without a railing and without nostalgia, great, great, great."[3]

Reception
Plaque for the sculpture, 2013

Gallery owner Philipp Haverkampf said that the work is a crazy mixture of time machine, spaceship and the sled of the sandman. When you look at it, you can see bizarre details such as geometric shapes, the Iron Cross and a beer bottle.[3]

According to Der Tagesspiegel, the term 'Humpty Dumpty' in the title refers to the talking egg in Lewis Carroll's children's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. In the Colonnades Courtyard in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie, the motley flying machine made of pieces as found at flea markets seems like a foreign body between the well-proportioned statues of classical sculpture schools.[4]

Meese's sculpture is part of the educational canon of 100 works in the categories of film/video, music, literature, architecture, and art which the editorial team of Die Zeit compiled from readers' letters in the fall of 2018.[5]

See also

References
  1. "New sculpture in the Kolonnadenhof at the Alte Nationalgalerie: The Monument von Atelier Van Lieshout". Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  2. Kuckuck, Anke (November 2010). "Künstler bei Noack: Jonathan Meese. Bronze ist Chef, radikalste Drüsenflüssigkeit der Kunst" [Artists with Noack: Jonathan Meese. Bronze is boss, the most radical glandular fluid in art] (PDF). NOAXMagazin (in German). Berlin: Bildgießerei Hermann Noack. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  3. Wilewski, C. (2011-03-24). "BILD.de erklärt das neue Ufo-Kunstwerk von Jonathan Meese" [BILD.de explains the new UFO artwork by Jonathan Meese]. BILD.de (in German). Berlin: Axel Springer SE. Retrieved 2020-06-14. Das Baby-Raumschiff fliegt ohne Rückspiegel, ohne Reling und ohne Nostalgie nur nach vorne, toll, toll, toll.
  4. Pataczek, Anna (2011-04-12). "Himmelwärts – Jonathan Meeses Skulptur im Hof der Nationalgalerie" [Skywards – Jonathan Meese's sculpture in the courtyard of the National Gallery]. Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  5. Tlusty, Ann-Kristin; Meyer, Julia; Luig, Judith (2018-08-30). "Ein Kanon der Vielstimmigkeit" [A canon of polyphony]. Zeit Online (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 2020-06-14.

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