ｈｅｌｎｗｅｉｎなんかも間近でみたら同じように感じるのかも知れない。エネルギーいっぱいのエキセビションだった。
これぞロンドン、というような美術館だなぁ、と思った。コレくらいなら私のほうがうまいんじゃないか？なんて正直思うようなペインティングもあって。でも現代アートはいまやその域に来ていて、技術やうまさ云々より、アーティストの強烈なキャラクターとコンセプト、などに焦点が集まってきているのかもしれない。 ...

just yesterday i found out that a helnwein exhibition is in a museum near me.. about 10 mins away from here.. so i decided, as a huge helnwein freak, to go there...
69 pictures also photographs with manson, my favorite painting collection featuring the "angels sleeping" series were spreaded over 8 rooms. i was dressed up in floorlong black leathercoat, my new rock boots, a shirt with one of marilyn mansons paintings on it, lotsa spikes and make up shit.
it gives me so much.. helnwein is one of the best artist this world has at the moment.. and his kids are also cool..unbelievable how creative this whole fucking family is, a creativ chaotic household...hehe... ...

И опять немного другое...
Helnwein (у меня есть большой альбом с его работами!)
http://www.helnwein.com ...

(Hannover/dpa) - Der Künstler Gottfried Helnwein stand am Freitag im Wilhelm-Busch-Museum in Hannover vor einem großformatigen Gemälde, das eine Gruppe von SS-Schergen und eine Frau mit Kind zeigt. Das Kind steht im Zentrum der Ausstellung «Beautiful Children» des umstrittenen Künstlers Helnwein. Vom 13. März bis 5. Juni sind 50 Gemälde, Zeichnungen und großformatige Fotografien des Österreichers zu sehen. Zum ersten Mal seit Jahren stellt Helnwein wieder in Deutschland aus.
Gottfried Helnwein stellt 50 seiner Werke in Hannover aus ...

The artist Gottfried Helnwein stands in front of large-sized painting which depicts a group of SS officers and a woman holding a child at the Wilhelm-Busch Museum in Hanover, Germany, Friday, 11 March 2005. The child is at the centre of the exhibition 'Beautiful Children' by the controversial artist Helnwein. 50 paintings, drawings and large-size photographs are exhibited from 13 March to 5 June 2005. Its the first time in years that Helnwein is again exhibiting in Germany. ...

Hannover – Das Kind steht im Zentrum der Ausstellung “Beautiful Children” des umstrittenen Künstlers Gottfried Helnwein im Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hannover. Vom 13. März bis 5. Juni sind 50 Gemälde, Zeichnungen und grossformatige Fotografien des 56 Jahre alten Österreichers zu sehen. Das Kind sei in der Kunst über Jahrhunderte vernachlässigt worden, sagte Helnwein, der erstmals nach vielen Jahren seine Arbeiten wieder in Deutschland ausstellt. ...

John Le CarréDas Finale bilden der "gesunde Schweizer Volkszorn", 18 Jahre Haftstrafe und eine gesundheitlich zerstörte Ehefrau. Viel später wird Jeanmaire seine Rehabilitation bewirken. Aber sie rettet ihn nicht davor, zum Symbol der verquasten Schweizer Verhältnisse und Volksseele zu mutieren. Der österreichische Kultkünstler Gottfried Helnwein stellt 1992 ein Plakat her, das Jeanmaire nackt zeigt - bekleidet nur mit seinem Generalskäppi. So, wie er am Tag seiner Verhaftung vor den Bundespolizisten, die ihn auch verhörten, stand. Jeanmaire, dem die Uniform, das Militär alles war. ...

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Es ist vor allem das christliche Thema der Leidensfähigkeit des Menschen, das Helnwein in schockierender Direktheit am Kind als dem eigentlichen Opfer unserer Zeit darstellt: „Das Kind verkörpert den unschuldigen, wehrlosen, der Gewalt ausgelieferten Menschen. Als unschuldiges ‚Lichtkind’, dessen Verletzungen an Kopf und Händen Lichtstrahlen wie selbstleuchtende Stigmen aussenden, wird das Kind zum Märtyrer, zur Dulder- und Erlöserfigur.“ (Peter Gorsen). Als erwachsener Betrachter stehen wir diesen Bildern gleichsam als Täter gegenüber, die Bilder stellen uns immer wieder neu die Fragen nach unserer Mitverantwortung und unserer Mitschuld. ...

P.S We start shooting a new video clip in two weeks, hopefully some of you can be apart of it? Its based on the German artist Helnwein, an amazing human being. ...

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Rund 60 großformatige Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und digitale Fotografien sind von Gottfried Helnwein seit dem 13.März 2005 im Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hannover zu sehen.
Mit Gottfried Helnwein, der über sich selbst sagt - „Meine Arbeit hat immer polarisiert. Ich habe immer Leute gehabt, die begeistert und fasziniert waren und ich habe immer Leute gehabt, die mich gehasst haben“, zeigt das Wilhelm-Busch-Museum einen international renommierten und poarisierenden Künstler. ...

Austrian artist Gottfriend Helnwein's large mixed media portrait of a little girl faces the gallery's entrance. The press release states, "[Helnwein's] images intend to evoke associations with mutilation, anguish or internal alienation... his paintings blatantly put forward images that border the line of social unacceptability and comment on the results of post Second World War society." ...

Helnwein’ı tanımıyorum. O bir Miller hayranımıydı bunu da bilmiyorum ve ben resim denilen, insanı şaşırtan, insanın sesten sonra keşfettiği bu en büyük sanatsal edinimin mistik çekiminin nasıl yorumlandığını da anlayabilmiş değilim. Bu sebepten olsa gerek ki, ne zaman bir resimden etkilensem, beni bir sıkıntı alır. Utanırım. Kanımca bu sessiz-karşı koyuş, ifade edilmesi en zor beceridir. Ve insan kendisini etkileyen şeyi açıklayamama çaresizliğine tapabilir...
Ancak eğer Arthur Miller’i okumuşsanız, Helnwein’ın bu birbirinden habersiz küçük insanlarının, onun satırlarının arasından kalkıp geldiği hissine kapılmaktan kendinizi alamazsınız. Birbirinden habersizdirler, her biri başlı başına bireysel bir drammış gibi gözükürler, oysa Miller’in dramlarında olduğu gibi bir bütünü oluştururlar. ...

Dear Friends of Austrian Culture,
The young viennese-born artist Mercedes Helnwein will be featured at the exhibition
A TRUE STORY
at the Boutique WhiteTrashCharms, 1951 Hillhurst Ave, Los Feliz CA 90027, opening tomorrow, February 17th.
The show will combine drawings by Mercedes Helnwein (www.mercedeshelnwein.com) and photography by Los Feliz native Alex Prager (www.alexprager.com)
Mercedes Helnwein , born in Vienna 1979 lives presently between Los Angeles and Ireland. She has worked both as a writer and fine artist and has been exhibiting in Los Angeles regularly since 2003. ...

Frighteningly realstic and disturbingly astonishing. Helnwein may be the greatest inspiration in my short life. I hope that one day my work and I shall be recognised, yet I do not expect equal greatness to Helnwein! Hopefully, the inspiration I gain from this site alone will help me get those beautiful A's I am working for.
The way he has encorporated cartoons into vague scenes and has captured human emotion more clearly than I can even express creates a mood not a lot of people can understand. It's truely amazing how perfect his artwork seems, so acurate. Even the cartoons seem alive!
Wounded children is a terribly degrading and depressing subject, and hasn't he captured it well. When you look at a piece of art like that, it is hard to imagine that being on anyones wall, and so you wonder what is the point to all this 'ugly' art? Well, I don't know for sure, but I understand that no art is 'ugly'; it is simply artwork emphasising the things many people turn a blind eye to, because they fear it. No one likes to see innocence destroyed, but we must appreciate the fact that it is happening everywhere today. Helnwein has shocked me, yet helped me realise that even ugly things are beautiful.
All we need is a good bucketful of ice-cold water to awaken us to the truth. Visual phenomenons; this is my water.
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In fact Gottfried Helnwein made his name by spectacular performances, among them are self mutilations or simulacra of violence inflicted on himself. The violence is often concentrated on the eyes. The artist takes to bandaging the head which deprives the individual of all visual relations with the outside world. An obvious paradox on the part of an artist's whole life and work is closely linked with sight, to apply himself to representing, in various forms, impediments and problems of sight. Undoubtedly the scope of his projects is not limited to the sole artistic domain. His art also takes on an obvious historic dimension. Like a good number of artists of his generation, those born after the war, be they writers, painters, film makers or photographers, Gottfried Helnwein feels intense guilt at belonging to a part of Europe with such an unbearable past. ...

Helnwein, David Lynch, Marcel Duchamp, Eliseo Mattiacci, Orlan, Gina Pane, Arnulf Rainer, Cirano, Hermann Nitsch ...

Die Helnwein-Kinder beeindrucken mich sehr. Ich kann gar nicht beschreiben, wie diese Bilder auf mich wirken. Assoziiere erschreckend, Verletzlichkeit, Stärke, Unnahbarkeit, Reinheit ... ...