sehr interessanter künstler, dessen homepage www.helnwein.de sehr viele fotografien beinhaltet. einige besonders schöne, des fotografen, der fähig zu sein scheint in einem bild hoffnungslosigkeit, trauer, angst, ekel auszudrücken und dabei poetisch zu bleiben und fähig ist die möglichkeiten der fotografie auszuloten. die werke erinnern immer wieder an bilder von bacon oder die verse baudelaires, die häßlichkeit ästhetisierend ...

"Survival of the fittest" by Charles Darwin, the rule of all times, occurs in a weird way in the modern life of Istanbul: Competing for sustainable job is not preferred by lazy local people, but abusing family home as a sanctuary from fighting in the arena of prerequisites for marketable skills...
The resource of this "undeserved social well-being" is surely financed by a solidarity and cooperation between family members of unemployed work force... This protection brings tranquillity, but threathens individual competitiveness...
Now it may be usefull to remember, what Leyla Erbil, one of the best writers of modern Turkish literature, says in her novella "The Dwarf": "As soon as possible, you have wanted to get rid of your family, that was just a concrete sediment of being socially underdeveloped"... ...

Qui a-il de s'y génial? Comment peut-on oser comparer ce genre de pratique avec des artistes comme Gottfried Helnwein, qui est peu connu au Québec malheureusement. Monsieur Henlwein arrive à faire des peintures immenses qui couvrent presque les murs de cathédrales autrichiennes à elles seules, et nul ne sait dire s'il s'agit de photographies ou peintures... Bref, il y a de tous les goûts dans la nature mais il y a aussi différents niveaux de talent. Riopelle est l'un de nos plus grands peintres au Québec, je le sais, mais je ne saurais dire pourquoi. Il y a peut-être matière a réflexion. Après plusieurs cours sur l'histoire de l'art, je connais assez bien le parcours artistique de Riopelle. Il a signé le Refus Global et ainsi donné de nouvelles directions à l'art. ...

Das von Peter Hajek 1984 inszenierte Porträt begibt sich auf die Spuren von Helnweins Leben und Werk. Er wurde in den 1970er-Jahren vor allem durch seine hyperrealistischen Bilder von verwundeten und bandagierten Kindern bekannt und hat sich seit den 1980er-Jahren vor allem der Fotografie und großformatigen Installationen im öffentlichen Raum – meistens mit einem sozialen oder gesellschaftspolitischen Anliegen – zugewandt. Kinder, oft seine eigenen, sind auch der Rahmen, in dem Helnwein bei der Arbeit, im Familienverbund oder beim Spiel präsentiert wird und durch welchen er in dieser Mischform aus fiktivem Dokument und realer Fiktion sowohl künstlerisch als auch sozial kommuniziert ...

INT. OBSERVATION TOWER - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
DEREK HELNWEIN (70), Director of the National Security Agency, stands over an advanced control panel.
Hardened by years of military experience, Helnwein never shows emotion.
Helnwein looks over CAPTAIN BATES’(30) shoulder, who is seated at a computer terminal.
HELNWEIN
Bates, are we operational yet?
BATES
Fully, sir.
HELNWEIN
Let them out.
BATES
Yes, sir. ...

Many disturbing images by German artist Gottfried Helnwein are reminiscent of the experiments in La Jetée. Learn more about his work. ...

Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor (of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums), deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers.
But the most haunting images may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes.
Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 17. November 2004
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. さてさて。旅行記めいたものを書きますと長くなり、途中でやめてしまうことが多いので、今回の旅行の中で印象に残った点を、つらつらと書いてみたいと思います。ゴットフリード・ヘルンウｪイン（Gottfried Helnwein）。この片仮名表記で合ってるかどうかわかりませんが。オーストリア人アーティストです。現在のコンテンポラリーでは、彼の作品展「The Child」が開催されていました。 ...

While tracking down alligators, Mr. Penn discusses the state of affairs in Hollywood and Washington. ...

2 Documentary
2 Short

Genre: Documentary [top]
1. Ninth November Night (2004) [Actor]
2. Helnwein (1984) (TV) [Actor]
Genre: Short [top]
1. Ninth November Night (2004) [Actor]
2. Doppelherz (2003) (V) [Art Director] ...

The original painting can be seen at his exhibit "Modern Sleep" at Modernism in San Francisco through December 23rd. ...

Any chance of a book on Gottfried Helnwein? Incredible artist. Quite breath-taking. His website is a treasure trove of images and information. Maybe add it to your 'Related Links' section?
www.helnwein.com ...

Verder in de biblo een boek gekeken van de oostenrijkse kunstenaar Helnwein. Heel inspirerend. Mooie fotos zijn (in mijn optiek) toch meer een foto van durf. Ideeën genoeg, maar je moet ze durven uitvoeren.
De grenzen van het normale over en je begeven in de wereld van je fantasie, van je gedachten, je angsten, de contradicties... ...

"Ninth November Night" documents Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein's sprawling 1988 art installation recalling the horrors of the Holocaust -- and the exhibit's defacement by vandals shortly after it was unveiled.
Directed by Henning Lohner and featuring on-camera appearances by Helnwein collectors Sean Penn and Jason Lee, the documentary short is largely the product of the passion and persistence of Malibu producer Gisela Guttman. When she struggled to find a venue in Los Angeles willing to show Helnwein's large-scale installation, she decided to make a documentary instead.
The art installation, which revolves around a series of pictures of small children, was vandalized after its initial showing in Germany.
"The one thing I wanted to do is just be sure that people can see the entire installation, I just really wanted to bring it to Los Angeles, no matter how," Guttman said. "The power of those images really comes across on-screen, and that's what I wanted people to see and to think about." ...

NEWS: FILMS OF JEWISH INTEREST at AFI FEST 2004
Noted Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, obsessed with the fact that his society could ignore the deaths of six million victims, dedicates his art to Holocaust remembrance. When the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht passes without commemoration, he creates an heroic art installation. Co-stars Maximilian Schell, Sean Penn, Jason Lee.
Screens as part of the German Shorts Program, Saturday November 13 at 9:00pm and Sunday November 14 at 1:00pm ...

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"Ninth November Night," the Holocaust remembrance documentary which debuted in Malibu last August in its New Malilbu Theatre engagement to qualify for Academy Award consideration, will be a featured entry in the AFI Film Festival Saturday (Nov. 13) and Sunday (Nov. 14.)
Produced by Malibu artist and curator Gisela Guttman with director/composer Henning Lohner, the film concerns Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein's lifelong dedication to artworks perpetuating awareness of Holocaust attrocities.
The documentary recently was a prize-winner at the Ojai Film Festival and is invited to the Nagoya Film Festival to be held next June as part of the World Expo in Japan as well as to the Calgary (Canada) Festival which honors films of humanitarian outreach. ...

Premier bilan de ce blog;assez fréquenté mais pauvre en coms..Comme le disait si bien Elkabach il y a quelques;Osez les coms et les femmes à poils!(je suis pas sur pour cette dernière partie mais bon...).En revanche je recois pas mal de mails,danke schon à vous donc!Et justement c'est d'un de ces mails dont je vais parler ce matin (histoire de faire peter ma science...),une jeune fille m'a remercié pour l'article sur Helnwein et demander l'adresse du site les liens ont du mal a s'afficher sur les blogs..mais passons.Elle me demandait pourquoi au début de l'article j'avais mis entre parenthéses le mot "Holocauste",ajoutez a ca une foto issu de"la passion du christ" en début de ce blog,un article sur la culture nordique...Sans m'accuser de quoique ce soit,elle trouva ca troublant (et mon humour noir ayant donné un pareil nom a mon blog,j en expliquerais la signification si vous etes sage,n'arrange rien). ...

Winging in from far-off and far-out corners of the world: German artist Gottfried Helnwein (here for the opening of "Modern Sleep'' at Modernism Gallery); actress Winona Ryder, who'd just landed at SFO from La-La land; and from the Gold Coast, Ann Getty and Jo Schuman Silver, popping by after a trunk show Ann hosted for Alyssa Boothby's Cracquer Jacque jewelry. ...

"Well, probably intentionally, except for moments of non-sober discussion, I've sort of made it a conscious effort to not analyze anything I love too much.
And I love this art, and for me part of the reason I think is a professional reason - for me as somebody who aspires to creativity myself. When you find someone in the arts, whether it's in your medium or in another medium, that raises the bar for you, that reinvigorates your own pursuit of affecting people and out of a sharing what you count on as some kind of a common chord in us. Whether it's through imagry, words, sounds.
I think that as an artist my strongest reaction to Helnwein's work is that it challenges me to be better at what I do. There are very few people that achieve utter excellence in what they do.
And I think that Gottfried Helnwein is certainly one of those people."
Sean Penn ...

"Helnwein"s fight for expression and stance against oppression are reasons why I chose him as an artistic partner."
Marilyn Manson ...