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REUTERS City , International / Art, 2000
by John Hendry
A year or so back, an exhibition called Sensations caused a few upsets, first in London and then in New York. Central to the reaction was a large-scale portrait of a child-killer assembled from, if I remember correctly, the palm prints of children. So far, so bland. The shock element in art has been much talked about in the last five years but art that actually shocks has been thin on the ground during the same period.
Step forward then, Gottfried Helnwein.
A year or so back, an exhibition called Sensations caused a few upsets, first in London and then in New York. Central to the reaction was a large-scale portrait of a child-killer assembled from, if I remember correctly, the palm prints of children. So far, so bland. The shock element in art has been much talked about in the last five years but art that actually shocks has been thin on the ground during the same period.
Step forward then, Gottfried Helnwein.
Gottfried Helnwein, One Man Show, Robert Sandelson Gallery, 2000
TEATRO SAN MARTIN, Buenos Aires, 2000
von RODRIGO M. MALMSTEN
Der Argentinier Rodrigo M. Malmsten hat, inspiriert durch die Bilder Gottfried Helnweins, das Theaterstück "KLEINES HELNWEIN" geschrieben.
Es wurde 2000 in Buenos Aires uraufgeführt
Der Argentinier Rodrigo M. Malmsten hat, inspiriert durch die Bilder Gottfried Helnweins, das Theaterstück "KLEINES HELNWEIN" geschrieben.
Es wurde 2000 in Buenos Aires uraufgeführt
Gottfried Helnwein, Rodrigo M. Malmstens Theaterstück KLEINES HELNWEIN
NEWS , 23,1999, 01. Januar 1999
Die Hymne des Freundes
Helnwein ein Künstler von Weltformat.
Helnwein ein Künstler von Weltformat.
Gottfried Helnwein, Manfred Deix about Helnwein
Arkansas Art Center, The Collection, 1999
In addition to over 130 Signac drawings, the Arts Center has amassed a world-renowned collection of fellow Europeans' works on paper.
Gottfried Helnwein, European Drawings
Helnwein, Catalogue for Apokalypse, 1999
by Peter Zawrel
Director of the Museum of Lower Austria
The enigma of Helnwein's paintings always has to do with guilt and atonement, perpetrators and victims, accusation and remorse. He has never escaped the Christian world of ideas and images of his childhood, but instead has used it for his own artistic purposes.
Director of the Museum of Lower Austria
The enigma of Helnwein's paintings always has to do with guilt and atonement, perpetrators and victims, accusation and remorse. He has never escaped the Christian world of ideas and images of his childhood, but instead has used it for his own artistic purposes.
Gottfried Helnwein, exhibition "APOKALYPSE" at Krems/Austria
Helnwein, Catalogue for Apokalypse, 1999
poet
As long ago as 1963 a fellow-artist and I imagined the horrible future of free-lance artist.
The topic of our discussion was not so much finances as the necessity of letting go and totally abandoning oneself.
At the time I had the idea of inventing something like a "fitness training of geniuses".
In retrospect I must say that I know very few artists who have persevered in this imaginary training programme.
Gottfried Helnwein is one of them.
As long ago as 1963 a fellow-artist and I imagined the horrible future of free-lance artist.
The topic of our discussion was not so much finances as the necessity of letting go and totally abandoning oneself.
At the time I had the idea of inventing something like a "fitness training of geniuses".
In retrospect I must say that I know very few artists who have persevered in this imaginary training programme.
Gottfried Helnwein is one of them.
Gottfried Helnwein, exhibition "APOKALYPSE" at Krems/Austria
Das Versprechen der Fotografie, Prestel, München, New York, 1998
von Klaus Honnef
Curator for Photography, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Helnweins künstlerische Praxis beruht auf der Erkenntnis der grundsätzlich unterschiedlichen Seinsformen von Fotografie und Malerei. Einerseits schöpft er als einer der konsequentesten Multimedia-Künstler überhaupt die spezifischen Möglichkeiten der jeweils verwendeten Medien bis zu den Grenzen ihrer Horizonte aus -- neben Fotografie und Malerei die Zeichnung und die Performance -, spiegelt sie andererseits, aber auch gewissermassen ineinander, so dass sie sich gegenseitig erhellen und ihre Wirkung steigern.
Curator for Photography, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Helnweins künstlerische Praxis beruht auf der Erkenntnis der grundsätzlich unterschiedlichen Seinsformen von Fotografie und Malerei. Einerseits schöpft er als einer der konsequentesten Multimedia-Künstler überhaupt die spezifischen Möglichkeiten der jeweils verwendeten Medien bis zu den Grenzen ihrer Horizonte aus -- neben Fotografie und Malerei die Zeichnung und die Performance -, spiegelt sie andererseits, aber auch gewissermassen ineinander, so dass sie sich gegenseitig erhellen und ihre Wirkung steigern.
Gottfried Helnwein, Die Sammlung der DG Bank
Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe, 1997
von Heinrich Klotz
Kurator, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Kurator, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Gottfried Helnwein, Katalog, Prestel, München, New York
PASSPORT GERMANY, World Trade Press, 1997
by Roland Flamini
Your Pocket Guide to German Business, Customs and Etiquette
German Painter Gottfried Helnwein has gained international renown for his chilling anti-Fascist and anti-militarist canvases.
Your Pocket Guide to German Business, Customs and Etiquette
German Painter Gottfried Helnwein has gained international renown for his chilling anti-Fascist and anti-militarist canvases.
Gottfried Helnwein,
Helnwein Monograph, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 1997
by Klaus Honnef
Curator for photography and new media, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Gottfried Helnwein - A Concept Artist before the Turn of the Millennium
Is it sheer coincidence that Gottfried Helnwein, the Austrian artist, created a portrait of both the German and the American? Coincidence, that he captured Warhol as a disturbing spectre on photograph, but painted Beuys? And that he then photographed the painted portrait of Beuys in the hands of Arno Breker, Adolf Hitler's favourite sculptor?
There are weighty reasons for considering Helnwein the legitimate heir to Beuys and Warhol.
Curator for photography and new media, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Gottfried Helnwein - A Concept Artist before the Turn of the MillenniumIs it sheer coincidence that Gottfried Helnwein, the Austrian artist, created a portrait of both the German and the American? Coincidence, that he captured Warhol as a disturbing spectre on photograph, but painted Beuys? And that he then photographed the painted portrait of Beuys in the hands of Arno Breker, Adolf Hitler's favourite sculptor?
There are weighty reasons for considering Helnwein the legitimate heir to Beuys and Warhol.
Gottfried Helnwein, Retrospective at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
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