"Sogar Marlenes Stimme klang einsam"
Am Ende ihres Lebens schloss sich Marlene Dietrich von der Welt aus. Zu den sieben Freunden, die sie in ihrer Pariser Wohnung besuchen durften, gehörten der Maler Gottfried Helnwein und seine Frau Renate. Sie erzählen von ihrer Freundschaft zu der Diva, die am 27. Dezember 100 Jahre alt geworden wäre. ...

Artists in their pusuit to understand themselves and the world around them have been forced to face the pain of suffering.
Helnwein, in his important "American Madonna" (Epiphany IV) painting, depicts with provocation the conflict between men of power and the weak.
In this present day setting, the police are confronting a divine being. ...

Jason Lee and Beth stay with Gottfried Helnwein in Ireland and acquire the painting "Epiphany III"(Adoration of the Shepards). ...

A spokesman for the festival said they were "disappointed and saddened" that the images had been attacked. He said Mr Helnwein's work had provoked a strong reaction throughout the festival. "There have been a lot of positive comments but there has been negative reaction as well."
The images have been a major talking point since before the festival began. A former mayor of the city, Mr Paul Cuddihy, initially objected to a painting being hung on the City Hall for fear it might be misinterpreted as lending support to Nazism. After meeting Mr Helnwein at his studio in Co Tipperary, however, Mr Cuddihy said the artist's work was "astonishingly good".

Kilkenny Arts Festival said the artist had a long and acknowledged record of taking a firm stand against Nazism and fascism. ...

A controversial mural by Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein has been damaged at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.
Huge canvases of his work, depicting images of Nazi soldiers staring adoringly at modern Madonna and Child figures, were displayed on various buildings in Kilkenny during the festival.
One of the murals hanging at the front of Kilkenny castle had paint thrown at it sometime during the night.
Another picture by Mr Helnwein, featuring a young Kilkenny girl, was also partially damaged in another part of the town. ...

one-man show at the Butler House and large Installations in the medival city center of Kilkenny ...

Workmen finish one of a series of prints measuring 9.3 metres by 6.2 metres by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.The prints of Kilkenny children will hang on buildings in Kilkenny as parts of its arts festival beginning on August 10th. ...

The disturbing Work of Helnwein comes to Ireland Helnwein is a headline artist who works in tight sound bites on a very large scale. The works brand themselves with proof of his technical know-how in various media and are endorsed by the coolest celebrities of his generation. So much for the cover-story, so what lies within? Headlines lure you into stories that make you want to cry, smile or help to change the world. But when they stop at your own skin, you can get a sinking feeling, a sense of the bigness and badness outside and the impossibility of change. ...

Exhibition - catalogue
One man show, Butler House, Kilkenny
Installation in the Kilkenny city center
Introduction by Claire O'Donoghue
Essay by Mic Moroney

Ninety children from around the city and country were photographed by the artist here in the High Street and nine are displayed in central locations around the city, dramatically enlarged up to 9 metres high. This ongoing project, begun here, will continue in other cities and towns in Ireland as the artist intends to expand the work to include one thousand Irish children. These beautiful,confident and happy children from Kilkenny contrast starkly with some of his more disturbing imagery. The juxtaposition of historical photographs of the Nazi regime with religious imagery of the Madonna and Child in the "Epiphany" series can make uneasy viewing not only in Germany and Austria but also here in Kilkenny.
Amongst a number of possible readings of these works is the uncomfortable relationship between the church and oppression in its various forms. However, as the artist Nolde said, "harmless pictures seldom mean anything". Nolde was banned from painting by the Nazi regime. ...

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Una sociedad intolerante formada por padres que abusan de sus hijos y líderes políticos que ejercen de dictadores es lo que podremos ver en Kleines Helnwein, el espectáculo que el argentino Rodrigo M. Malmsten presenta en el Grec.
Inspirada en la estética del pintor austriaco Gottfried Helnwein, autor de obras que denuncian una sociedad oscura e hipócrita, para Kleines Helnwein Malmsten ha escrito un texto fragmentario, no realista, en el que el espectador advierte que el personaje que es una víctima se convierte en verdugo. ...

Lang anhaltender Applaus, Bravorufe, nicht ein einziges Buh ertönte.
Die Premiere von Strawinskys"The Rake's Progress" in der Inszenierung von Jürgen Flimm an der Hamburgischen Staatsoper fand eine tolle Resonanz beim Publikum .
Musikalischer Leiter war Ingo Metzmacher und der international bekannte Künstler Gottfried Helnwein begeisterte mit seiner Ausstattung. ...

Die Regie Jürgen Flimms fügt sich triftig in den Dialog zwischen kammermusikalischem Orchesterklang und Bühnenbild , weil Helnwein die Erzählung leitet. Fern vom schweren Musikdrama,nimmt die Inszinierung die Stilexkursionen Strawinskys und Audens auf, wenn im Bordell Rokoko-Damen auf Glatzköpfe in gepolstertem Blouson-Look treffen und die Chefin Mutter Goose ostinat auf dem Teufel reitet. In Helnweins Bildergeschichte macht sie ihrem Namen Ehre mit einem Donald Duck auf dem Kopf. ...

Flimm gewann für Bühne und Kostüme Gottfried Helnwein, der angeblich notorisch Drastik und Provokation sucht, zunächst aber ein ingeniöser Bildmacher ist, -ein Maler, Grafiker und Fotograf.
Das verbindet ihn mit William Hogarth, dem englischen Kupferstecher, dessen Bilderzyklen Strawinsky zur Oper inspirierten. Doch 250 Jahre später setzt Helnwein nicht bei Hogarth und seiner realistisch genauen Darstellung der Londoner Casinos, Lusthöllen und Irrenhäuser an.
Helnwein arrangiert eine magische Zeitlosigkeit durch präzise Rekostruktion konkreter Stile
und zugleich fantasiegeborener Kreationen. Selten erlebte man die plastische Wirkungskraft von Kostümen so intensiv wie in Helnweins schiefem, nach rechts sich neigendem Kubusraum, in den zur Linken drei Türen eingelassen sind und dessen hellweisse Flächen immer wieder Bildprojektionen dienen,
Kostüme und Bilder sind von ausgesuchtem Antipsychologismus, von entwaffnend stereotyper Symbolik, so wie Audens und Kallmans Text, wie Strawinskys Musik.
(Stuttgarter Zeitung, 16. Juni 2001) ...

Fall of the Angels.
It's a slow fall. Its actually a fall in extreme slow motion. Its so slow that the motion seems frozen, like a glacier that's constantly flowing and moving, though not perceptible to our eyes, because for us, who live short and fast, glaciers appear to be static and eternal.
That former angel seems to be suspended between hell and heaven, It has not hit the bottom yet - and it probably never will - but it's getting closer ....constantly.

Gottfried Helnwein

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Постои заблуда дека кое било човечко лице во кое било време, помалку или повеќе, изгледа исто, како лице на некоја статуа. Всушност, човечкото лице е менливо од миг до миг како екран на кој се отсликуваат слики, однатре и однадвор. Видов шест слики на иста тема за помалку од една минута - толку различни една од друга што тешко можеше да се препознае дека станува збор за иста личност.
Сликите и фотографиите на Готфрид Хелваин ја проблематизираат оваа заблуда, покажувајќи ја различноста на лицата, што секое лице е можно да ја направи. И со намера да ја "нападне" основната заблуда, тој мора да ја потенцира до претерување, и тоа преку искривување, со завои и метални инструменти што го вклештуваат лицето во невозможен облик.
Сликите на измачување и лудило ги има во изобилство. А сето тоа е резултат на исклучителното искуство и специфичната перцепција.
Како може еден автопортрет да се отслика со толку скулптурално смирено лице, кое всушност е облеано со сиот ужас што нè опкружува? Измачувањето, болеста, стравот и омразата што станаа секојдневица на она што Поуп го нарекува "банкет на животот". Овие ужаси секогаш говорат од лицата велејќи: "Ова е тоа што го мислам... и ова... и ова... и ова... Погледни подобро и ќе видиш". Не можеш да му покажеш никому нешто што веќе не видел, ниту пак можеш некому да му кажеш нешто што веќе не го знае.
Функцијата на уметникот е да ги привикува искуствата на изненадувачко препознавање: да му го покаже на гледачот она што веќе го знае ама не знае дека го знае. Хелваин е мајстор на вчудоневидувачкото препознавање. (Вилјам Бароуз)
Субверзивната сила, во светлото на културниот критицизам кој верува дека светот е на пат да ја заживее својата реалност на целосна манипулација и симулација, промовирани со сите сили од агендата на моќните медиуми, е задача што и` припаѓа на уметноста и што е од клучно значење. Таа го обликува човечкиот фактор. Но уметноста ќе с изврши својата задача единствено ако биде способна да ја скрши моќта на системите и ако успее да ја тргне магијата нивните агенди ги раководат луѓето.
Галерија на слики ...

Автор: D.Green  
Работа поступила 26/2/2001 и уже получила 274 баллов

Part three in the Hannibal Lecter Trilogy. Having escaped the asylum in "Silence of the Lambs," Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor's, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling. ...

Nach der Verleihung des Bundesverdienstkreuzes an Marius Müller Westernhagen, Essen in kleinem Kreis in einem Italienischen Restaurant in Hamburg.
Gäste: Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder und Gattin Doris, Marius Müller Westernhagen, seine Frau Romney, Boris Becker, Gottfried Helnwein, Jürgen Flimm, Michael Naumann, Norbert Haug. ...