Putting Holes into Happiness,
Kneel down humble men and become the height of our children. Let your heart crawl into your knee and realize that all knowledge lives through imagination. This is the nursery business, always get a photocopy. Our cultures may continue to disintegrate but we just rebuild with abusement parks, filming the process and replaying it as situation comedy. We wear ribbons, hold hands, celebrate and concentrate on camps that train our kindergartens to shout out "star-spangled" banter.
We will medicate the lunacy of "degenerate" art with heavy doses of old-fashioned (original recipe) family virtues. "Let's make sure all of these offensive forms of entertainment are shown publicly, and burned immediately as a warning to us all!" ...

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.. Günther Grass - Jürgen Habermas - Peter Handke — Gerda Hasselfeldt -
Gottfried Helnwein - Eckhardt Henscheid - Werner Herzog - Burkhard Hirsch -
Ludwig ... ...

Catalogue
Muffathalle, München
47. Berliner Festwochen, Berliner Arena
Ausstattung: Gottfried Helnwein
Regie: Gert Hof ...

30 Porträts von "Spiegel"-Autor Helmut Sorge. Lebensläufe und Schicksale von Maria Altmann über Gottfried Helnwein bis Thomas Gottschalk und Wolfgang Petersen. Mit einem Vorwort von Arnold Schwarzenegger. ...

Gottfried Helnwein's classic yet unnerving images transform sentimental representations of childhood into portraits of individual subjects frozen at the moment of suffering. His photo-paintings pirouette on the fine line between chocolate box pictures/excessive sentimentality and the cost to children of being treated as commodities, of suffering emotional or physical pain at a grown-up's hands.
High pictorial and technical values create compositions that recall contemporary cinema and seventeenth-century painting, expanding the treatment of time into epic. This apparent grandiosity plays against the immediacy of each suffering subject, underlining the different experience of time in childhood. Small hurts can devastate when you're a child. Big hurts stay with you for years, as survivors of Hitler's Anschluss testify.
Now, in the age of virtual use and abuse of children, Helnwein's insistence on valuing the humanity and charm of the littlest, the least powerful, offers a counterpoint to claims that suffering counts most when you're grown-up. It opens his practice into a series of pictorial mise-en-scènes, as did Rembrandt's tableaux in The Blinding of Samson (1636) or The Night Watch (1642). ...

... Marcus Harvey's Myra; Sarah Lucas's urinal refer- ence to Duchamp in her Charlie
George installation at the ICA; Gottfried Helnwein's references to the ... ...

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Painting in Austria 1945-1995,
The Essl Collection, Vienna

Renate Possarnig im Gespräch mit:
Gottfried Helnwein
Friedrich Gulda
Mikis Theodorakis
Peter Handke
Erika Pluhar
Maria Farandouri ...

one-man show
Ausstellungskatalog ...

Selektion: The painted Girl
"I'm interested in the stage of a human being where it's not so important wether it's a male or a female, before we can tell any social background or anything, it's just...abstract, almost"
Gottfried Helnwein ...

...Of course, Man Ray's artists portraits, and his photos in general, were just brilliant, and Helmut Newton, althought better known for his nudes, also took portraits of several artists in his unique style. Phillip Hallsman's collaboration with Dali was amazing, and Gottfried Helnwein took some stunning pictures of Warhol. ...

..There are also representative works by key twentieth century figures such as
Braque and Picasso, and works of contemporary artists like Gottfried Helnwein... ...

Im Kampf gegen Reglementierungen u. Zwänge, gegen Vergessen u. Resignation weist H. vornehmlich durch die Darstellung des Antlitzes des gezeichneten - oft schreienden - Menschen einen Weg, der Aufschrecken u. Überprüfung zur Folge haben könnte. Dieser Zielsetzung unterwirft er die verschiedensten Mittel u. arbeitet mit Serienphotos ebenso wie mit der endlosen Reproduktion der Offsetdrucks, mit Aktionen wie mit an die Grenzen des Erträglichen gehenden verist. Bildern. ...

Thanks to Renate and Gottfried Helnwein, for inspiration . . . and Renate in
particular for talking me through some of my worst experiences. ...

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Inszenierung, Choreografie: Gregor Seyffert
Bühne, Video, Licht, Kostüme und Maske: und Gottfried Helnwein
Dichtung aus "Lalla Rookh" von Thomas Moore
für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester ...

...The full-color art encompasses the photography of Man Ray and Cindy Sherman, the paintings of Braque, Dal¡ and Degas, and even an occasional piece of sculpture. Baudelaire's "Giantess" mirrors Gottfried Helnwein's Lulu, a giantess in garters. ...

GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN
構成・解説　伊藤俊治
リブロポート
オーストリア＝ウィーンはヤバい芸術家を数多く輩出／排出している。シェーンベルク、ベルク、ウェーベルンら新ウィーン楽派の音楽、シーレ、ココシュカらの表現主義的な絵画、フックスらのウィーン幻想派。
そして、我らがヒーロー、ゴットフリート・ヘルンヴァイン。 ...