Project Arts Centre ...

Old photographic techniques are currently inspiring artists again while others are experimenting with new techniques:
amongst the latter are William Wegman, Gottfried Helnwein, Toto Frima, Bernhard Faucon, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Anke Erlenhoff and Candida Höfer. ...

The Choice, was an exhibition that identified unknown and emerging artists through the viewpoint of leading contemporary artists. We invited an international group of artists to engage their own curatorial ideas. In the role of curator, these artists had been asked to present the work of artists they have followed or whose work has affected them in a personal way.
Curator/Artists
Ida Applebroog: Jane Higgins, Saeri Kiritani, Lisa Petsu Lagunes
Nicole Eisenman: Alison Kelly, Maria E. Piñeres, Suzanne Wright
Robert Gober: Jonathon Hexner
Antony Gormley: Ignassi Aballi, John Patrick Clayman
Gottfried Helnwein: Iris Andraschek, Danielle Kraay
Damien Hirst: Rachel Howard
Cindy Sherman: Charles Clough, Susan Jennings, David Krueger, Gail Le Boff
Laurie Simmons: Helen Rousakis, Pedro Barbeito
Kiki Smith: Joey Kötting
Sam Taylor-Wood: Georgie Hopton ...

"I ask, I do not answer."
- My works are questions, not answers, says the Austrian, Gottfried Helnwein,
time and time again focusing on the most sore points of contemporary, general and private history.
The retrospective exhibition of this controversial artist was opened yesterday in Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art and is open until 22nd of November.
Helnwein says he became an artist because, being born after the war, he had so many questions to ask.
He also stresses that the same questions must be asked again and again.
"I, as probably every artist does, have only one theme which I incessantly vary. The use of diverse techniques is but a means of getting closer to one's original goals." ...

The child has grown into a world famous artist. But he has carried his questions with him. Today opens a large retrospective exhibition of Helnwein's art in Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art in Turku. The exhibition contains aquarels, oil paintings, drawings and photographs. They have often caused controversies by dealing with subjects that are all too sensitive. ...

CD cover:Gottfried Helnwein, "First Love", 1993, colored pencil on paper
(P)© 1998 Motor Music GmbH, Hamburg
CD 044 141-2
released in Europe: 27th of July 1998
music & lyrics by Martin Lee Gore (Depeche Mode)
Cover painted by Gottfried Helnwein ...

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Logan, a 53-year-old investment banker, leads a tour of his house in the Marin County town of Tiburon, perched above the San Francisco Bay. The eclectically furnished, art-packed living room sets the tone. On one side of the room, Untitled (Venus/The Great Circle) by Jean-Michel Basquiat hangs catercorner to David Park's brooding canvas The Bathers. Across the way, Andy Warhol's Double Jackie faces off against The Room, a whimsical Philip Guston. There's a ravishing, newly purchased early Hockney, Seated Woman Being Served Tea, in the dining room, and looming above a stairwell is Gottfried Helnwein's powerful Untitled (Child). ...

Die Ausstellung. Rolling Stones Gitarrist Ron Wood werkt seit Jahren auch als Maler. Ab 13. Juli stellt er seine Arbeiten in Wien aus. Woods nennt den Österreicher Gottfried Helnwein als Vorbild: "Helnwein hat über die Jahre einen einzigartigen Stil entwickelt und gilt heute als einer der Grössten der Welt. Sein grandioses Jagger-Bild aus den Achzigern gilt noch heute als legendär." ...

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