Con todo estos antecedentes históricos, no es de sorprender que lo que sucede con la Muestra del Plastico León Ferrari y su posterior Censura es algo similar a la Censura que sufrio el artista plastico Gottfried Helnwein en Austria, hace unos anos, por sectores pacatos de derechas. ...

Doppelherz. Double Heart, if I’m not mistaken. Gottfried Helnwein, controversial German artist, had a part in this, and it seems pseudo-planned, but mostly stoned/wasted/drunk candid shots in the creepiest locations and situations to have ever existed.
The soundtrack consists of Thaeter being played over and over and over (for 26 minutes, the length of this film) and stilted, monotonous, broken words being stumbled through on top of this. A note at the end of the film leaves us to believe these words may have been intended as a vocal suicide note from Manson. Words like “I’m a canvas that bleeds and I’m painted with fingers”, “everything in this world has already been created so we can only dream up new ways of destroying them,” and “I want downloadable suicide” repeated over and over and over, twisted themselves and their speaker. You can hear as his voice breaks, as he can’t quite say the words he’s trying to say, as he sniffs and is maybe even crying.
Just the noises are enough to knock me senseless, before letting me go cower in the corner.
The images...
It’s like David Lynch directed it, only even David Lynch would be more merciful. If you’re a fan of Manson for the music, don’t bother with the DVD edition, you’re just going to be scared off. If you appreciate scary, disturbing art flicks that destroy your mind, then maybe you’re almost prepared.
I want to say it doesn’t make sense, but it would be a lie. There’s almost a plot, it’s just all broken in pieces, fixated on the oddest images. There are two basic processions spliced together as Manson drones his bitter words in a tired voice. ...

Manson alla mostra di Gottfried Helnwein ...

Do you have any art in your home?
- Gottfried Helnwein I own. I have a few pieces of his from his recent L.A. series. We ultimately ended up working together on a video project for Peter Gabriel [“The Barry Williams Show”]. Some things that are familiar lose their gravity after time. When someone like him makes the familiar so continually provocative, you can find a deepening appreciation for something. ...

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In een vorig berichtje had ik het al over de soms angstaanjagende aantrekkingskracht van clowns. Een berichtje op Bouzou herinnerde me aan het bestaan van de Oostenrijkse kunstenaar Gottfried Helnwein, die ergens op gelijkaardige dubbelzinnige gevoelens inspeelt.
Beelden en iconen die je normaalgesproken met absolute puurheid associeert, worden in zijn werk beroofd van al hun onschuld. Kijk maar eens wat hij uitspookt met Mickey Mouse of Donald Duck. De vege plannetjes staan zo van hun gezicht af te lezen. Het omgekeerde kan natuurlijk ook.
Ook wreedheid en leedvermaak krijgen een plaats in het werk van de ietwat omstreden kunstenaar. Hij werkt ook wel eens samen met aanverwante geesten als Marylin Manson of Rammstein. ...

O ich bin zu groß, um rückwärts zu gehen:
Vogelmilch ist Federn,
die Bohnenblätter sind stumm wie Hände.
aus Mänade von Silvia Plath ...

"essa é a função do artista,
da excitação do reconhecimento:
mostrar ao expectador o q ele sabe,
mas não sabe q sabe..."
william s. burroughs/
sobre o trabalho de Gottfried... ...

...Und überall blühen so traurige Augen.
Und ich habe dir doch von den großen Sternen erzählt,
Aber du hast zur Erde gesehn.
Nächte wachsen aus meinem Kopf,
Ich weiß nicht wo ich hin soll. ...

sehr interessanter künstler, dessen homepage www.helnwein.de sehr viele fotografien beinhaltet. einige besonders schöne, des fotografen, der fähig zu sein scheint in einem bild hoffnungslosigkeit, trauer, angst, ekel auszudrücken und dabei poetisch zu bleiben und fähig ist die möglichkeiten der fotografie auszuloten. die werke erinnern immer wieder an bilder von bacon oder die verse baudelaires, die häßlichkeit ästhetisierend ...

"Survival of the fittest" by Charles Darwin, the rule of all times, occurs in a weird way in the modern life of Istanbul: Competing for sustainable job is not preferred by lazy local people, but abusing family home as a sanctuary from fighting in the arena of prerequisites for marketable skills...
The resource of this "undeserved social well-being" is surely financed by a solidarity and cooperation between family members of unemployed work force... This protection brings tranquillity, but threathens individual competitiveness...
Now it may be usefull to remember, what Leyla Erbil, one of the best writers of modern Turkish literature, says in her novella "The Dwarf": "As soon as possible, you have wanted to get rid of your family, that was just a concrete sediment of being socially underdeveloped"... ...

Qui a-il de s'y génial? Comment peut-on oser comparer ce genre de pratique avec des artistes comme Gottfried Helnwein, qui est peu connu au Québec malheureusement. Monsieur Henlwein arrive à faire des peintures immenses qui couvrent presque les murs de cathédrales autrichiennes à elles seules, et nul ne sait dire s'il s'agit de photographies ou peintures... Bref, il y a de tous les goûts dans la nature mais il y a aussi différents niveaux de talent. Riopelle est l'un de nos plus grands peintres au Québec, je le sais, mais je ne saurais dire pourquoi. Il y a peut-être matière a réflexion. Après plusieurs cours sur l'histoire de l'art, je connais assez bien le parcours artistique de Riopelle. Il a signé le Refus Global et ainsi donné de nouvelles directions à l'art. ...

Das von Peter Hajek 1984 inszenierte Porträt begibt sich auf die Spuren von Helnweins Leben und Werk. Er wurde in den 1970er-Jahren vor allem durch seine hyperrealistischen Bilder von verwundeten und bandagierten Kindern bekannt und hat sich seit den 1980er-Jahren vor allem der Fotografie und großformatigen Installationen im öffentlichen Raum – meistens mit einem sozialen oder gesellschaftspolitischen Anliegen – zugewandt. Kinder, oft seine eigenen, sind auch der Rahmen, in dem Helnwein bei der Arbeit, im Familienverbund oder beim Spiel präsentiert wird und durch welchen er in dieser Mischform aus fiktivem Dokument und realer Fiktion sowohl künstlerisch als auch sozial kommuniziert ...

INT. OBSERVATION TOWER - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
DEREK HELNWEIN (70), Director of the National Security Agency, stands over an advanced control panel.
Hardened by years of military experience, Helnwein never shows emotion.
Helnwein looks over CAPTAIN BATES’(30) shoulder, who is seated at a computer terminal.
HELNWEIN
Bates, are we operational yet?
BATES
Fully, sir.
HELNWEIN
Let them out.
BATES
Yes, sir. ...

Many disturbing images by German artist Gottfried Helnwein are reminiscent of the experiments in La Jetée. Learn more about his work. ...

Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor (of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums), deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers.
But the most haunting images may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes.
Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 17. November 2004
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. さてさて。旅行記めいたものを書きますと長くなり、途中でやめてしまうことが多いので、今回の旅行の中で印象に残った点を、つらつらと書いてみたいと思います。ゴットフリード・ヘルンウｪイン（Gottfried Helnwein）。この片仮名表記で合ってるかどうかわかりませんが。オーストリア人アーティストです。現在のコンテンポラリーでは、彼の作品展「The Child」が開催されていました。 ...

While tracking down alligators, Mr. Penn discusses the state of affairs in Hollywood and Washington. ...

2 Documentary
2 Short

Genre: Documentary [top]
1. Ninth November Night (2004) [Actor]
2. Helnwein (1984) (TV) [Actor]
Genre: Short [top]
1. Ninth November Night (2004) [Actor]
2. Doppelherz (2003) (V) [Art Director] ...

The original painting can be seen at his exhibit "Modern Sleep" at Modernism in San Francisco through December 23rd. ...

Any chance of a book on Gottfried Helnwein? Incredible artist. Quite breath-taking. His website is a treasure trove of images and information. Maybe add it to your 'Related Links' section?
www.helnwein.com ...

Verder in de biblo een boek gekeken van de oostenrijkse kunstenaar Helnwein. Heel inspirerend. Mooie fotos zijn (in mijn optiek) toch meer een foto van durf. Ideeën genoeg, maar je moet ze durven uitvoeren.
De grenzen van het normale over en je begeven in de wereld van je fantasie, van je gedachten, je angsten, de contradicties... ...