Helnwein was deeply influenced by the Holocaust, as well as by popular cultural references like comics and rock music. His imagery is unsettling, dark, and deeply compelling, carrying powerful messages of political disturbance and social unease. ...

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Gottfried Helnwein's classic yet unnerving images transform sentimental representations of childhood into portraits of individual subjects frozen at the moment of suffering. His photo-paintings pirouette on the fine line between chocolate box pictures/excessive sentimentality and the cost to children of being treated as commodities, of suffering emotional or physical pain at a grown-up's hands.
High pictorial and technical values create compositions that recall contemporary cinema and seventeenth-century painting, expanding the treatment of time into epic. This apparent grandiosity plays against the immediacy of each suffering subject, underlining the different experience of time in childhood. Small hurts can devastate when you're a child. Big hurts stay with you for years, as survivors of Hitler's Anschluss testify.
Now, in the age of virtual use and abuse of children, Helnwein's insistence on valuing the humanity and charm of the littlest, the least powerful, offers a counterpoint to claims that suffering counts most when you're grown-up. It opens his practice into a series of pictorial mise-en-scènes, as did Rembrandt's tableaux in The Blinding of Samson (1636) or The Night Watch (1642). ...

Nach "Das Rheingold/Die Walküre" im Opernhaus Bonn, folgt in der Spielzeit 2007/2008 "Siegfried/Die Götterdämmerung" als zweiter Teil. Bühne und Kostüme aller 4 Teile des "Ring des Nibelungen" sind von Gottfried Helnwein gestaltet. ...

Masterpieces from the Essl Collection and Bank Austria Collection ...

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Vicki and Kent Logan hosting a dinner at their home in honor of Gottfried Helnwein. ...

Apama Mackey Gallery
Houston, Texas ...

A far parte del Comitato Scientifico della Armonia International Foundation of Arts hanno già aderito gli artisti Cy Twombly e Gottfried Helnwein, Eugenia Petrova, direttrice scientifica del Museo di Stato Russo di San Pietroburgo, Gabriella Belli, direttrice del MART di Rovereto, Larry Gagosian, gallerista a Londra, New York e Roma, Jean Claude Marcadè e Rossella Caruso, storici dell’arte, e la scrittrice Diana Picasso ...

In memory of Francisco de Goya ...

FIGURES OF DESIRE: fantasies of identification, disguises or transformations, social roles in construction of gender and sexuality. ...

Die Ausstellung reflektiert Persönlichkeit und Werk des bedeutenden Grazer Dramatikers Wolfgang Bauer in Form einer simultanen Videoinstallation mit Erinnerungen seiner Freunde und Weggefährten, wie u. a. Gert Jonke, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Herbert Achternbusch, Max Droschl, Franz Ringel, Barbara Frischmuth, Gottfried Helnwein, Alfred Kolleritsch, Olga Neuwirth, Paulus Manker, Heribert Sasse, Ulrich Schulenburg, Heinz Sichrovsky, Peter Weibel, Heidi und Jack Bauer. ...

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The exhibit will explore the intersection of art, the body, and medical procedures, with the implicit fear of bodily pain (real or imagined) as a major theme. The human body is vulnerable and mortal, yet it is also the biological basis of human existence. "Body Anxious" includes works by artists from around the world, in, often, unconventional media, who examine the anxieties associated with medical procedures and instruments, and other experiences that remind us of our shared precarious biological condition.
Artists include: Gottfried Helnwein, Kiki Smith, Diana Falchuk, James R. Southard, Drew Sellers, Cristin Millet and Chiharu Shiota. ...

Gottfried Helnwein, Roland Topor ...

A special emphasis has been placed on the acquisition of photography, with important works by Carleton Watkins, Lewis Carroll, Imogen Cunningham, Diane Arbus and Gottfried Helnwein on display.
(Gottfried Helnwein, William S. Burroughs 1990, 99 cm x 66 cm, silver print) ...

Das Linzer Kunstmuseum Lentos schmückt sich bereits für das Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2009. Die sechs Räume der ständigen Ausstellung werden im Laufe dieses Jahres gemeinsam mit Künstlern neu gestaltet. Den Anfang machte der Linzer Maler und Filmemacher Dietmar Brehm. Er paarte „alte und neue Klassiker“ und wollte die „Provokateure“ der Kunst ihrer Zeit in den Mittelpunkt rückten. Zu seiner Auswahl zählen Werke von Arnulf Rainer, Gottfried Helnwein, Günther Brus oder ihm selbst ebenso wie solche von Gustav Klimt ...

Konsequent und virtuos. Technische Meisterschaft und auch die Konsequenz einer packenden sozialkritischen Thematik offenbaren sich in dieser Ausstellung: Gewalt, Schmerz, Verletzung werden dargestellt. Den Körper ebenso wie die Psyche betreffend. Helnwein dokumentiert hier in Linz einen künstlerischen Reifegrad, der eine weitere Steigerung kaum vorstellbar macht. Seine Eingriffe sind von einer schmerzhaften Unmittelbarkeit, deren emotionale Energie weit über die großen Bildformate hinaus den Raum und sein Publikum ergreift. (Irene Judmayer - Oberösterreichische Nachrichten) ...

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Warhol, Schiele, Helnwein, Rainer, Mel Ramos, Picasso, Bellmer, Janssen, Gütersloh, Hrdlicka... ...