The exhibition is curated by Vicky A. Clark and Barbara J. Bloemink for the Regina Miller Gouger Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University and organized and toured by Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management, New York. Zines were curated by Richard Gribenas, and comics and graphic novels curated by Ana Merino
With power and a zap, cartoon imagery has recently exploded. Artists, graphic novelists, and zine makers everywhere are taking advantage of the potential to tell stories in a recognizable and familiar language. Today, artists use cartoon imagery to address problematic issues that are difficult to assimilate into the mainstream through purely realistic depictions. In the process of taking on difficult social issues, they participate in the construction of identity in its many guises, weaving aspects such as race, gender, sexual orientation, violence and war, loss of innocence, and the commodification of identity into complex, layered tales. And at times, they make us laugh at ourselves.

Comic Release features art by more than fifty nationally-known and emerging artists, including Laylah Ali, Michael Bevilacqua, Blake Boyd, Enrique Chagoya, Michael Ray Charles, Nicole Eisenman, Inka Essenhigh, Neil Farber, Chris Finley, Karen Finley, Gottfried Helnwein, Arturo Herrera, Leslie Lew, Kerry James Marshall, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Walter Robinson, Al Souza, Kara Walker, and Sue Williams.

An illustrated catalog will be available.

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Helnwein's Mickey at the SFMOMA
San Fracisco Museum of Modern Art
Alicia Miller (Review)
Artweek
2000

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Mai 17, 2003,
Der Kultur-Channel
Gottfried Helnwein, der Maler aus Wien, und Marilyn Manson, der Schockrocker aus Canton/Ohio, verbindet seit etwa einem Jahr eine künstlerische Freundschaft. Wie ausgerechnet der Schockrocker auf den Maler Helnwein gekommen ist? Als Kind hat sich Manson Blackout, eine Platte der Scorpions, gekauft, und war so begeistert vom Cover, dass er ab da die Karriere Helnweins verfolgt hat. So verwundert es auch nicht, dass Helnwein auf die Frage "Welche Maler und bildenden Künstler haben dich am meisten beeinflusst?" folgendermen antwortet: "Egon Schiele, Gottfried Helnwein, Luis Buel, Da Da, [Hieronymus] Bosch, Warhol, Mark Ryden, Fellini. Und so weiter..."
Für das Cover von Mansons neuer CD "The Golden Age of Grotesque" lichtete Helnwein Manson als eine Art Mickey Mouse ab. Doch das war der amerikanischen Plattenfirma dann doch zu "heiss" - schade eigentlich, aber über die Mouse macht man sich echt nicht lustich - nie nich!

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