Kleines Helnwein está considerada de interés nacional y cultural, obtuvo una mención de honor en el concurso de obras teatrales Atahualpa del Cioppo 1999 y su publicación, además de recibir varias nominaciones para los premios teatrales Trinidad Guevara y ACE (Asociación de Cronistas del Espectáculo), y ser seleccionada para el Festival Internacional de Teatro GREC (Barcelona 2001) ...

Kleines Helnwein escrita y dirigida por Rodrigo Malmsten se inspira en la estética del artista plástico contemporáneo Gottfried Helnwein.
"Kleines Helnwein"
Autor: Rodrigo Malmsten
Elenco: Belén Blanco, Martín Von Tumpling
Música original y en vivo: Mariano Durand y Marcelo Vignolo.
Coproducción del Teatro General San Martín
En el Callejón de los Deseos -Humahuaca 3759 ...

Su gato siamés trata de robar cámara en la sesión fotográfica: extiende su cuerpo como su dueña, se para donde le indica el fotógrafo, mira al objetivo con sus ojos verdes. O deambula llamando la atención por el luminoso departamento donde computadora, libros y revistas expresan el ordenado desorden de esta actriz de 25 años que obtuvo el premio ACE a la actuación en espectáculo off por su labor en Kleines Helnwein, y una invitación para participar con esa obra en el festival Grec 2001, de Barcelona. ...

Any artist who sites Donald Duck and Jesus Christ as the most important influences in their art must be worth taking a look at.
In the row of pristine gallery fronts in London's Cork street, you cannot miss Gottfried Helnwein's show; it's the one with the gigantic Mickey Mouse staring out at you.
The Robert Sandelson Gallery has given us a stunning show of the infamous, Austrian born artist's recent work. Helnwein is on a mission to find the answers to questions that no-one in Austria would give him; such as why the post-war republic portrayed itself as a victim rather than as one of the first main perpetrators of Nazism. ...

In 'The Darker Side of Playland', the endearing cuteness of beloved toys and cartoon characters turns menacing and monstrous. Much of the work has the quality of childhood nightmares. In those dreams, long before any adult understanding of the specific pains and evils that live holds, the familiar and comforting objects and images of a child's world are rent with something untoward. For children, not understanding what really to be afraid of, these dreams portend some pain and disturbance lurking into the landscape.
Perhaps nothing in the exhibition exemplifies this better than Gottfried Helnwein's 'Mickey'. His portrait of Disney's favotite mouse occupies an entire wall of the gallery; rendered from an oblique angle, his jaunty, ingenuous visage looks somehow sneaky and suspicious. His broad smile, encasing a row of gleaming teeth, seems more a snarl or leer. This is Mickey as Mr. Hyde, his hidden other self now disturbingly revealed.
Helnwein's Mickey is painted in shades of gray, as if pictured on an old black-and-white TV set. We are meant to be transported to the flickering edges of our own childhood memories in a time imaginably more blameless, crime-less and guiltless.
But Mickey's terrifying demeanor hints of things to come. ...

These are the images of a man consumed by free will. A man with a gift and a craft and a passion to challenge the mediocrity of what has already been established. A man whose opinions embody everything authority does not want you to believe in. His name is Gottfried Helnwein, and he recently discussed his 30+ year career with Tastes Like Chicken's Insane Wayne Chingsang. ...

The Book Bukowski in Pictures is the first pictorial biography of cult writer, Charles Bukowski. The writer's extraordinary private and public life is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, most published for the first time. Extracts from Bukowski's poetry and prose are sprinkled throughout, together with drawings, cartoons, manuscripts, rare broadsides and personal letters. It features powerful new portraits of Bukowski by leading photographers such as Gottfried Helnwein and Tony Lane, former art director of Rolling Stone, as well as work by R.Crumb. All photographs have detailed captions by biographer Howard Sounes who has also written a powerful introductory text with new revelations gleaned from Bukowski's recently declassified FBI file. The end result is a fascinating life in pictures that will be essential for all Bukowski fans. ...

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HEY, there's Mickey Mouse at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art!
Wait a minute. That's not my perky little pal from ''Steamboat Willie.'' This Mickey looks a little mean. This Mickey looks like Michael Eisner's id. Nice Mickey. Don't hurt me. Here's a dollar.
That's how it goes at ''The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,'' perhaps the first show to suggest that there are indeed monsters under the bed, and you might as well get used to it.
SFMOMA curatorial associate Heather Whitmore Jain struck the perfect note by opening the show with Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein's massive and menacing oil and acrylic ''Mickey.''
It's hard to imagine another contemporary symbol so perfectly balanced between beloved childhood icon and its day job as a corporate logo. Helnwein chooses an earlier Mickey, with the smaller, darker eyes and the longer, more ratlike nose to help make his point. With his pasted-on smile and forward lunge, this Mickey looks more ready to negotiate cable and Web rights than to comfort a preschooler. ...

Kunstenaar Gottfried Helnwein daagt uit met zijn gemanipuleerde beelden van de werkelijkheid. Vooral politieke figuren, uit verleden en heden, zijn in zijn werk de klos. Heimat Oostenrijk heeft hij moeten ontvluchten. Bas Groes sprak hem: ‘Isolatie helpt niet, zonder dialoog verandert er niets. ...