If you fondly recall the Gottfried Helnwein self-portrait used as the cover of a Scorpions album, then you'll likely enjoy the Disney-dropping message of the artist's mixed media work American Prayer, and you'll probably even forgive the misspelling of his name on the nearby title card. After all, what evocation of comic-book history would be complete without a typo or two, and who's got time to read text, anyway... ...

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Foto-, maali- ja installatsioonikunstnik Gottfried Helnwein. ...

580 ganz- und doppelseitige, hochwertige Farbbilder. Atlasgroßformat. Kiloschwer. Leinen.
Er gilt als "Schockmaler" (Wiener Zeitung), aber seine Provokationen "sind gekonnt gesetzt" (Die Welt). Seine Kunst ist morbide, abgründig, exzentrisch. Seine Figuren sind Opfer, verwundet, entstellt, bandagiert. Crumb hält ihn für einen "very fine artist - and a sick motherfucker". Er sieht sich in der Tradition von Villon, Goya, Poe, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Bacon. Stones Gitarrist Ron Wood: "Helnwein hat über die Jahre einen einzigartigen Stil entwickelt und gilt heute als einer der Größten der Welt."
Dieser opulente Farbband ist die bisher größte und umfangreichste Werkmonografie des gebürtigen Wieners mit Wohnsitzen in Irland und Los Angeles, das Gesamtwerk 1970 bis 1997 zum ersten Mal in einem Band: das grafische Werk, die Aquarelle, Öl- und Mischtechnikbilder, fotografische Arbeiten, die Aktionen und Installationen sowie alle Arbeiten fürs Theater. Mit den Texten von Heiner Müller, William S. Burroughs, H.C. Artmann, Klaus Honnef und Peter Selz. ...

Опубликовано 9 февраля'04
Gottfried Helnwein 'American Prayer', 2000
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Речь идет о том, что сейчас в России фактически происходит нивелирование возрастных позиций: различные возрастные группы по многим вопросам имеют сходное мнение. Например, как рассказала представитель компании Romir Monitoring Евгения Крикина, ценностные установки в отношении власти молодого и зрелого поколений практически сравнялись. Причем это можно расценивать как положительное явление. «Это очень хорошо, ведь, чтобы создать свое собственное мнение, человеку нужно иметь базу для него, — прокомментировала она. Бояться такого явления не стоит. Доверие к близким важно. Например, в начале 90-х постоянно возникали семейные конфликты, а сейчас это прошло: все смотрят одни и те же передачи, ходят в одни и те же магазины, и уровень конфликтов в семьях стал ниже». ...

Friday, October 8th, 2004
I went to the Gottfried Helnwein show at the Legion of Honor today for a class assignment. Really incredible show. His paintings are disturbing images of children in bandages, with scarification, or looking like their have experienced traumas that children their age should not have to live through. The paintings are photo realistic, similar to Gerhart Richter's paintings of newspaper clippings or portraits. They are pretty disturbing and as I looked around the room, I saw many people with hands over their faces. It's not an overt, in your face kind of disturbing, it's subtle. ...

"The Child," at the Legion of Honor (www.thinker.org), is a less lyrical experience that confronts the way that the world so glibly uses children (in advertising, in war, in religion) to achieve less-than-innocent objectives. Some of Helnwein's paintings are terrifying. Instead of poster-child perfection, we're presented with children with various deformities: wayward eyelids, lumpy defects, hideous extra folds of flesh.
Then there's Helnwein's penchant for contrasting childlike innocence with the horrors of the Third Reich. In one piece, a woman with a naked infant son, in the classic pose of the Madonna, basks in the soft-focus gaze of five men dressed in Nazi uniforms.
Thought-provoking? Very. Disturbing? You bet. Children are our sacred cows. But they grow up. In that way, they are miniature adults. Sometimes art can push us in ways that shake the status quo. ...

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Gottfried Helnwein’s first one-man exhibition at a major American museum is long overdue. 35 years in the making, “The Child” is a collection of more than fifty drawings, watercolors, photographs, and paintings (several monumental in size). It’s also a show that shocks, and among the crowds thronging to see it, some patrons will be put off: the day I attended, a few seemed downright uncomfortable, if not hostile, toward the work. This is fine. Art should shock, and provoke, and make us feel queasy sometimes.
“The Child” achieves all three, but also startles us with aching beauty, bedazzles us with painterly skill, and injects a necessary perspective into the culture’s collective conscience. ...

Marilyn Manson: "Gottfried Helnwein whom I collaborated with a lot invited us to get married at one of his castles in either Germany or Ireland," Manson said. "So we thought we would just have the pageantry and the ceremony of a normal wedding, but without the church. Because I don't think that I would really be welcome there." ...

Раммстейн гарячка [Sep. 22nd, 2004|11:24 am]
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21 листопада Раммстейн дасть концерт в Пітері, це дало поштовх для Раммштейн гарячки в мене сьогодні ранком.
* Раммси поважають соняшники в оформленні так само як і я;
* Раммси звертали увагу на творчість Gottfried Helnwein , так само як і я ...

:: Gottfried Helnwein :
»Andy Warhol, New York« [1983]
»Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles« [1984]
»William S. Burroughs, Lawrence, USA« [1990]
»Michael Jackson, Köln« [1988]
»Willy Brandt, Bonn« [1989]
»Keith Richards, Berlin« [1990] ...

J'en ai choisi une sans sang et sans cris, quand même. Mon humeur était à l'atrocité silencieuse, cette nuit. Je trouve ça pire, parce qu'on peut imaginer. Et quand on peut imaginer, j'imagine le pire. Celle-ci, je l'ai en petite carte postale dans un petit livre de reproductions sur cartes postales du même mec. On dirait un corps en décomposition avancée. L'enfance annihilée, mais oui. Comme c'est tragique, mes enfants. Regardez ce qui vous attend.
Helnwein. Si un jour il expose à Montréal, vous me le direz. ...

“There are three things that cannot be seen, even though they may be right in front of our eyes: the sun, genitals, and death“
Georges Bataille
The child
“A big part of contemporary art is not connected to anything. “It’s important for certain artists to respond to what’s going on in present time.”
“Gottfried Helnwein is an artist whose work - “giant color portraits of stillborn babies, paintings that merge Nazi-archive photographs with pictures Helnwein has taken, enigmatic portrayals of apparently wounded or menaced children” - tends to provoke strong reactions, and in recent years, several individuals have expressed their displeasure with some of his images by defacing them” (Adding to the discussion artsjournal.com)
Innocence lost by Anita Amirrezvani 04. August 2004 The Mercury News
His new exhibit called “The Child,” through Nov. 28 at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco - Robert Flynn Johnson Curator in Charge : THE CHILD Works by Gottfried Helnwein ...

Thursday, September 09, 2004
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Modernism Inc.
(San Francisco, California, USA) 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Alexander Bogomazov, R. Crumb, James Hayward, Gottfried Helnwein, George Koskas, Naomie Kremer, Le Corbusier, Kazimir Malevich, Mel Ramos, John Register, David Simpson, Mark Stockand more. ...

Austrian-born and educated and now living Los Angeles, Helnwein employs a hyperrealist manner that will remind Americans of Gerhard Richter but, if anything, works to opposite effect. Rather than re-confirm post-modernist cynicism, Helnwein rekindles post-war anguish. This selection, going back more than three decades, emphasizes his preoccupation with the image of the child, from early Nitsch- and Schwarzkogler-influenced photo-actions (with the requisite bandages) to recent large portrait-like heads and depictions of Christ-child-like babes attracting odd, menacing crowds. A perverse streak runs through the images, but it’s not pederasty: tinged with surrealism, it’s an enduring shame and anger at the Nazi past – and the artist’s suspicion that Naziism hasn’t been eradicated. ...

This exhibition by internationally renowned artist Gottfried Helnwein continues in the Crawford Art Gallery until September 4 th next. Helnwein bases himself between Co. Tipperary and Los Angeles and is exhibiting a number of large scale photorealist canvases depicting landscape. Perhaps more recognized as a painter of highly emotive portraits, this exhibition will reveal the influence of landscape throughout his career from the early Vienna cityscapes to the present series of Irish landscapes and recognizes the impact which the German romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) has had on Helnwein’s work. Born in Vienna in 1948, he is a formidable artist and his work has often been seen as controversial because it functions as moral probes. ...

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Look at his inexplicably damaged children, often painted in a midnight monochrome, and you can't help but try to fill in the story, and take a degree of responsibility.
Helnwein's work is what the art world likes to call "difficult, "often as an excuse to look the other way. ...

Cover waren und sind mehr als lustige Verpackung. Sie sind Kunst.
Die Pop-Art Peter Blakes für "Sgt. Pepper" von den Beatles. Andy Warhols schlüpfrige Banane (Velvet Underground) oder der einladende Jeansstall (Rolling Stones). Cal Schenkel illustrierte (Zappa), Robert Crumb schraffierte (Joplin), Gottfried Helnwein schockte (Rammstein), Malcolm McLaren dilettierte (Sex Pistols). ...