A highly satisfying survey of his work at the Legion of Honor museum titled "The Child" was dominated by images of children, as was a current exhibition of his more recent work at Modernism. ...

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." ...

Wien - Von der Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus über Foto- und Hyperrealismus der 1970er-Jahre bis in die Gegenwart führt die Ausstellung "Ir/real. Tendenzen des Realismus in Österreich ab 1945", die am Donnerstag im Klosterneuburger Schömer-Haus eröffnet wurde. Kuratorin Agnes Essl sieht die Schau als eine Art Rückkehr zu den Anfangen der Sammlertätigkeit, zugleich aber als Anregung zur Reflexion über den Realismusbegriff in der Kunst: "Es lag in der Luft".
Das Erdgeschoss präsentiert Exemplarisches von Gottfried Helnwein, Johanna Kandl, Katrin Plavcak, Peter Pongratz und Peter Sengl ...

In 1980, Modernism became the first gallery on the West Coast to show Russian avant-garde art, and is one of only two galleries in the nation that continue to exhibit such works today.
Muller, through gallery shows, has helped build the careers of American realist painter John Register, sociopolitical conceptual artist Gottfried Helnwein, social portraitist Robert Crumb and narrative painter Mark Stock, to name a few.
Muller has also helped with exhibitions at Bay Area museums such as Helnwein's challenging show, "The Child," the Palace of the Legion of Honor last August. ...

MADRID, SPAIN.
- This is the biggest ever exhibition devoted to the life of the ultimate screen icon, Marilyn Monroe - Life of a Legend. Showcasing more than 250 works from over 70 famous artists and renowned photographers. As a tribute to her lasting popularity this extraordinary exhibition charts every stage of the bittersweet story of Monroe's life and career. Works on display include well-known pieces by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Allan Jones, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon, Gottfried Helnwein and Henri Cartier-Bresson, as well as previously unseen works by Conny Holthusen, Antonio de Felipe, José de Guimares and Ernesto Tatafiore. ...

...On the other hand, two large faces - Gottfried Helnwein's Head of a Child and Richard Phillips' Brandbild (Sunburn) - hold our gaze, as they gaze at us, though I'm not sure just what they say about that state between whatever and whatever, be it heaven and hell, action and inaction, or plain old fretful stasis. ...

TEMPE, ARIZONA.- The Arizona State University Art Museum will present The Other Mainstream: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, January 22 - April 23, 2005. A dynamic selection of works from the collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, "The Other Mainstream" shows their ongoing commitment to social and political issues and artists of color. ...

Oberhausen (dpa/lnw) - Nach San Francisco und Sankt Petersburg sind Werke von Gottfried Helnwein erstmals in der Ludwig Galerie in Oberhausen zu sehen. Unter dem Titel »Beautiful Children« zeigt die Galerie vom 12. Juni an rund 90 Gemälde, Fotografien und Plakate des österreichischen Künstlers. Zu den Werken aus seinen vergangenen 15 Schaffensjahren gehören das Gemälde einer Madonna mit Kind inmitten einer Riege von SS-Schergen und ein Porträt im Großformat von Marilyn Manson mit Mickey-Maus-Ohren. Die Schau läuft bis zum 2. Oktober.
11.01.2005 dpa ...

Dabei ist "Bilder, die noch fehlten" in erster Linie eine "herrlich unangepasste" (Honnef) Kunstausstellung, die viele Sparten aktueller Fotografie vereinigt: etwa Reportage (Josef H. Darchinger), Lifestyle (Daniel Josefsohn), Porträt (Gottfried Helnwein) und Mode (Sibylle Bergemann).
Freilich wühlen die "Bilder, die noch fehlten" auf, regen auf. Sie entlassen den Besucher gespalten. Der wird geblendet von der Aura, die die behinderten Akteure von ihren prominenten Fotografen bekamen, erscheint fasziniert vom Mut und der freimütigen Selbstdarstellung der Protagonisten. Und es bleibt doch eine tiefe Kluft zwischen der Ästhetisierung des Behindertseins und der Realität. ...

Beginning November 3 the gallery showcases recent paintings by Gottfried Helnwein. A Swiss-born artist whose work spans a broad spectrum of media, Helnwein was strongly influenced by the dark, devastated world he perceived as a child in post–World War II Europe. His imagery is haunting and his draftsmanship impeccable, inviting a closer look in spite of often chilling subject matter. Helwein’s paintings will remain on view through December 23. ...

Burkhard Eikelmann, Galerist aus Düsseldorf, sammelt seit seinem 17. Lebensjahr Bilder von Gottfried Helnwein und Andy Warhol, aber auch Alex Katz, Eric Fischl, Mel Ramos und Keith Harrings gehören zu seinem Repertoire. Seit zehn Jahren ist der Essener in der nordrhein-westfälischen Landeshauptstadt mit seiner Galerie zu Hause, jetzt überlegt der Enddreißiger, der mit einer Russin liiert ist, auch in Moskau eine Ausstellung zu eröffnen. ...

Berauschend und bedrückend, begeisternd und irritierend – das sind die Bilder von Gottfried Helnwein, die das Wilhelm-Busch-Museum vom 13. März bis zum 12. Juni in seinen Räumen zeigt. Im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung steht eine repräsentative Auswahl seines Schaffens. Von frühen Aquarellen bis hin zu großformatigen Digitaldrucken, die Kunst des Künstlers ist ein ständiges Ausprobieren, eine Mixtur der Techniken. ...

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The Gottfried Helnwein exhibition "The Child" at the Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, July) was chosen as the most important show of a contemporary artist in 2004.
"In the first of two shows (the other at the Modernism Gallery in November), Helnwein's large format, photo-realist images of children of various demeanors boldly probed the subconscious. Innocence, sexuality, victimization and haunting self-possession surge and flicker in Helnwein's unnerving work." ...

De Close Up documentaire ‘Donald Duck: Meer Dan een Eend’ onderzoekt het succes en de blijvende aantrekkingskracht van de wereldberoemde eend. Waarom is hij in Europa populairder dan in de Verenigde Staten? Wat is het geheim van de twee turven hoge antiheld? Waarom zijn zoveel kunstenaars dol op deze eend?
In de documentaire laten kunstenaars, wetenschappers en kenners hun licht schijnen over het fenomeen Duck. Kunstenaar Gottfried Helnwein noemt Donald Duck de belangrijkste ontwikkeling uit de kunstgeschiedenis.
‘Donald Duck: Meer Dan een Eend’ voert de kijker van een Iers kasteel naar een Fins buitenhuis, van het Duitse Heidelberg naar Hollywood, van Utrecht naar Timboektoe. De documentaire toont ons de beste fragmenten uit klassieke Donald Duck-tekenfilms, de leukste tekeningen van Donald Duck-tekenaar Carl Barks en bijzondere archiefbeelden om te achterhalen waarom Donald Duck zoveel meer is dan een eend.
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Do you have any art in your home?
- Gottfried Helnwein I own. I have a few pieces of his from his recent L.A. series. We ultimately ended up working together on a video project for Peter Gabriel [“The Barry Williams Show”]. Some things that are familiar lose their gravity after time. When someone like him makes the familiar so continually provocative, you can find a deepening appreciation for something. ...

Licht und Schatten vereint in einem ewigen Moment – so könnte das Motto der Ausstellung „Das Versprechen der Fotografie“ lauten, die derzeit 270 Werke der weltweit besten zeitgenössischen Fotografen im Moskauer Haus der Fotografie präsentiert. Die Ausstellung ist ein Projekt der DZ Bank im Rahmen der deutsch-russischen Kulturbegegnungen.
...Porträts von Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Gottfried Helnwein, Willi Brandt und Clint Eastwood ...

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. ...

"...When I look at a work of Art I ask myself: does it challenge me, does it touch, move or inspire me? Do I learn something from it, does it startle or amaze me - do I get excited, upset?
That is the test any artwork has to pass: can it create an emotional impact on a human being even when he has no education or any information about art? I’ve always had a problem with art that you can only understand if you have a degree in art history, and I have a problem with theories in general. Most of them are bullshit anyway. Most critics and theorists have little respect for artists, and I think the importance of theory in art is totally overrated. Real art is self-evident. Real art is intense, challenging, enchanting, exciting and unsettling; it has a quality and magic that you cannot explain. Like the Blues, a poem of Rimbaud or Rembrandt's late self-portraits. Art is not logic, and if you really want to experience it, your mind and rational thinking will be of little help. Art is something spiritual that you can only experience with your senses, your heart, your soul. Think of Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Mozart, Howling Wolf, Goya, Bukowski or Robert Crumb - do you need to know the theories that some busybodies might attach to their art in order to experience it?
Marcel Duchamp said: "The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity."
These two poles is all you need. ...

Her lips are parted and colored a luscious deep red. The pancake makeup on her face gives off a marble-white glow. A jacket, adorned with braided gold epaulets at the shoulders, yawns open, exposing a wide expanse of skin down her chest. She appears to be about 8 years old.
There was a time, not so long ago, when the subject of Gottfried Helnwein's new, large-format digital prints at San Francisco's Modernism Gallery might have alarmed or even scandalized a viewer. Not anymore -- or at least not so reflexively...
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, 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, here and across town at Modernism, 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. ...