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. ...

The major art works of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, at Kilkenny Castle, Butler House and throughout the city are beautiful, prosaic, sinister, grotesque, unusual and ordinary and provoked a lot of discussion and disgust.

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. ...

The visual focal point of the arts festival has to be Gottfried Helnwein's huge photographic images displayed on the streets of Kilkenny. Originally from Austria, Helnwein is now based in County Tipperary. His display of works on the streets of Kilkenny, and in Butler House, is testament to the power of this man's visual imagery. Helnwein's concerns could be viewed on a political level, indeed in his own homeland his work has been hounded by controversy, as he directly pinpoints neo-Nazi neuroses.
'Epiphany I: Adoration of the Magi' depicts a beautiful Madonna and Child being examined by Himmler's elite SS officers. This is strong stuff, with piercing connotations on the interaction of religion, politics and power in the 20th century. Juxtaposed with these images are a series of enlarged photographs of children's faces from Kilkenny. Hung in the same manner as billboard advertisements on buildings and walls, these photographs, with their silent, shut-eyed subjects, are meditative comments on life in the making. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Strawinskys “The Rake´s Progress” hat am 10.06.
unter Flimm /Helnwein/ Metzmacher Premiere
» Flimm hat gemeinsam mit Helnwein, der auch die witzigen, farcenhaft übersteigerten Kostüme entworfen hat, am Bühnenbild gefeilt. «Die kleine Bühne macht die Figuren sehr stark. Und passend zu dem plakativen Stück hat Helnwein großformatig Videos und Dias mit Großstadtszenen und verzerrten Gesichtern in den Raum projiziert.» ...

Handiscoop: Welke foto’s fascineerden uzelf het meest?
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Patrick: Ik ben onwaarschijnlijk onder de indruk van de foto van Gottfried Helnwein: een nostalgisch beeld van een jongen die aan het bidden is tot zijn God, Donald Duck. Alleen de aandachtige kijker ziet dat deze biddende jongen zijn handen niet kan samenvouwen. Zijn handen bestaan namelijk uit prothesen. ...

Magnific!!!, March 1, 2001
Reviewer: Nuno Miguel B Gonçalves from Leiria, Portugal
The work of Helnwein is simply one of the best i've ever seen!! The subject, the form, the color, the talent, everything makes for Helnwein to be one of the best artists in recent years, the book depicts well his work with superb photos, good reviews, a concise text not at all snobish. A great buy, good value for money!!! ...

Kleines Helnwein, la premiada obra de Rodrigo Malmsten que encuentra a la actriz Belén Blanco en una performance superlativa, vuelve fugazmente al Callejón de los Deseos. El teatro off recobra, así, una obra tenebrosa y genial. Opinión: Excelente. ...

Saturday, April 07, 2001
-Gottfried Helnwein
The Temptation of Joseph Beuys
Colored pencil on paper
1993
Gottfried Helnwein
posted by Her Daintiness the Aesthetic Curmudgeon Realness at 5:08 PM
What,YOU got something ta say?! ...

Cette photographie peu connue de Michael est l'oeuvre de l'autrichien Gottfried Helnwein. Elle a été réalisée en 1988 alors que Michael était de passage en Allemagne durant son Bad Tour. Cette photographie a aussi fait partie de l'exposition appelée "Faces" présentée par Helnwein au Stadtmuseum de Munich en 1992.
En plus d'être photographe, Gottfried Helnwein est également un peintre et un sculpteur reconnu pour sa vision très particulière de l'époque nazie et pour ses images sur la souffrance et la douleur chez les enfants qui dérangent profondément l'âme...
Deux oeuvres de cet artiste sont incluses dans le livret qui accompagne l'album History de Michael... ...

This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world.

Creator Name: Gottfried Helnwein
Creator Nationality: European; Central European; Austrian
Title: Self-Portrait
Creation Date: 1993
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: Colored pencil
Contributor: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Owner Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund ...

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Helnwein, Gottfried
Gespräch mit dem Kunsthistoriker Andreas Mäckler. Das bisher umfangreichste Interview fand statt am 13-14. Juli und 21-22. September 1990.
http://www.gottfried-helnwein-interview.com
En nueva ventana ...

Austrian born artist Gottfried Helnwein's work is also of exemplary value, beginning with bandage action events (documented by the artist appearing in cafe's and lying in the street with his "wounded" head and face bandaged). His work depicts physical injuries which are metaphors for far deeper existential, psychological and human tragedies. Medical injuries, facial deformities and abused children proliferate throughout his work evoking primary internal anxieties. The inhumane acts of violence (child abuse, war atrocities, state oppression) and frightening images of familial estrangement that are presented in his work, constitute events which are preferred forgotten, like the nazi era, or preferred left unspoken such as familial traumas like child abuse. Helnwein also conducts a probing analysis of the individual and the self through an abundance of self portraits, each obscured by hideous facial bandages, his facial muscles, lips and eyes are stretched apart, torturingly, by varied medical instruments, now made famous by the Rammstein covers. All his images in some way evoke associations with mutilation, anguish or internal alienation. The works (frequently paintings appearing remarkably like photographs), boldly put forward social unacceptabilities never before portrayed so lucidly and so confrontingly. The many intensities produced in the work are profoundly disturbing, the impressions - uncomfortably eerie, electrocuting the eyes with a rush of haunting spatiality. ...

"Dino Buzatti hat einmal geschrieben, die menschlichen Enten des Carl Barks böten für die Weltkunst ein so bedeutendes Figuren Repertoire wie die von Moliere, Goldoni, Balzac oder Dickens.
Und für Gottfried Helnwein, der eine Ausstellung über Donald und seine Welt zusammengestellt hat, ist Barks der einzige bedeutende Künstler unseres Jahrhunderts neben Picasso.
Aber der ästhetische und soziale Reichtum, den Donald Duck Leserinnen und Leser in aller Welt schätzen und lieben [...] all das macht Donald zum Zentrum einer universalen, dynamischen Kunst-Welt. Aber in Deutschland ist er mehr; in der Bundesrepublik und in Österreich gibt es nur wenige Biographien, in denen er nicht eine fundamentale Bedeutung hat, eine Überlebensbedeutung, eine Fluchtbedeutung, eine Wahrheitsbedeutung. ...

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Over 30 playful but nightmare-inducing works (including a mutilated Rug Rat by Heidi Zumbrum and a monstrous Mickey by Gottfried Helnwein) drawn from the collection of L.A. contemporary art patrons Kent and Vicki Logan. Other artists are David Levinthal, Laurie Simmons, Yoshitomo Nara and Hung Tung-Lu.
Curator: Heather Whitmore Jain, SFMOMA.
Catalogue: 44 pp., with essay by Jain and an interview of the Logans by Janet Bishop, SFMOMA. ...

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