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| Sven Hoffmann | ||
| art-photographie.de |
"Endlich jemand der wirklich widerliche Kunst macht - nirgends einzuordnen - nicht angepaßt - ein Ärgernis für viele. Gratuliere!" |
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| Alan Bamberger | ||
| art consultant, San Francisco |
"One thing you can't quibble over is the overwhelming impact of Helnwein's imagery - ethereal hallucinogenic meditations you enter effortlessly into. Hang one of these whatever-you-wanna-call-it's in a room and it totally permanently dominantly dicates the mood. Not much art can do that, which is what makes Gottfried Helnwein great." |
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| Susanne Vill | ||
| Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Mozarteum, Salzburg |
"Helnweins Bilder erwecken eine tiefere Angst vor sadomasochistischer Gewalt, vor Exzessen des Umgangs mit Menschen, die gequält werden, selbst quälen und dem Schrecken der Technik, der Medien oder dem Krankenhausterror ausgeliefert sind. Der Ekel, den seine superrealistischen Bilder vor allem Kranken, Abnormen, Deformierten in seiner hilflosen Auslieferung an gewaltsame Überformung auslösen, ist extremes Schockmittel im Sinne von Antonin Artauds Wirkungsästhetik. |
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| Reinhold Misselbeck | ||
| Curator for photography and new media, Ludwig Museum , Cologne |
"Gottfried Helnwein's view of reality has always been analytical, critical and even caustic. |
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| Klaus Honnef | ||
| Kurator für Fotografie, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn |
"Helnweins künstlerische Praxis beruht auf der Erkenntnis der grundsätzlich unterschiedlichen Seinsformen von Fotografie und Malerei. |
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| Kenneth Baker | ||
| San Francisco Chronicle |
"After wincing for a while, viewers found themselves admiring Helnwein's conceptual compositions. The artist knows that images of disfigured Great War veterans provide some of the impetus for early surrealism. He slams those references against an allusion to religious martyrdom, the episode of Jesus' presentation in the Temple of Solomon, often employed in Christian art to symbolize the contrast between worldly and spiritual splendor, between sin and innocence. " |
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| Christoph Soltmannkowski | ||
| Schweizer Illustrierte |
"Seine hyperrealistischen Gemälde machten ihn zu einem der bedeutendsten Künstler der Gegenwart" |
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| Hubertus Froning | ||
| Curator, Folkwang Museum Essen |
"Wenn wir von Helnwein sagen, er habe von aussen nach innen gemalt, dann heisst das,daß seine minutiöse und bohrend-insistierende Arbeitsweise, die die geschaute Wirklichkeit brutal interpretiert, eine hinter den Dingen im Verborgenen liegende Welt aufzudecken versucht. |
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| Mic Moroney | ||
| writer, art-critic, artist |
"Helnwein's meticulous Irish landscapes are unashamedly aesthetic: gorgeous confections of pure, delicious spectacle. The typically epic but not inhuman scale imitates the subject matter. The tonal realism will make people go "Wow, are they paintings?" - thanks to the photorealist finish which seems free of the foibles of the human hand. Helnwein works with very small brushes - highlighting and subtly magnifying here, muting colours or creating shadows there; pushing some paintings towards momentary sleights of impressionism; and others towards seamless, burnished hyperreality. |
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| Cristin Leach | ||
| The Times |
"...These photo-paintings appear even more real than a photograph: they are hyper-real, super-saturated depictions of the world that surrounds us, as we would like to see it. Helnwein’s landscapes offer us the world as we see it in our mind’s eye, our memories. |
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