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Ausnahme-Künstler Gottfried Helnwein lud zu seiner Buchpräsentation. Zu Gast: Iris Berben.

Sonntagvormittag herrschte großer Andrang in der Albertina. Maler, Aktionist und Bühnenbildner Gottfried Helnwein lud zu seiner Buchpräsentation, und auch Schauspielerin Iris Berben reiste aus Deutschland an. Sie hat sogar vor Jahren eines seiner ersten Bilder gekauft – „Das Osterwetter“, das auch in der Retrospektive in der Albertina zu sehen ist. Für sie ist der Ausnahme-Künstler ein „Kompass, ein Leuchtturm und ein Komplize“. mehr...

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Two days after the Sandy Hook school massacre, a survival gear company called Black Dragon Tactical composed a new slogan to promote sales of armored backpack inserts. “Arm the teachers,” the company declared on Facebook. “In the meantime, bulletproof the kids.”... The question may be political, but the keenest response is to be found in a museum in Mexico City, the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, at a retrospective of paintings and photographs by the Austrian-American artist Gottfried Helnwein. Helnwein’s extraordinary work depicts the fragile innocence of children. Devoid of grown-up sentimentalism, his images can be overwhelming, especially those that show how that innocence falters in an adult world. mehr...

23.10.2015 - 21.02.2016

19.02.2015 - 10.05.2015

Death-and-Beauty

Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

The Contemporary Gothic in Art and Visual Culture

The exhibition focuses on macabre topics and their relations to the world of beauty and glamour in the art and visual culture, starting from the 1990s. The main connecting thread is the body: how it can be manipulated and (ab)used in visual-cultural practices. We will be showing a large amount of photography from the 1990s til today, as well as the videos, objects and costumes that meet the subject. mehr...

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Huffington Post

Haiku Reviews: ART December 2014 (Still on View)

Both children and toys wear exaggerated expressions, but expressions that do not seem unnatural to them; if anything, they seem tempered, the toys' by the crepuscular light Helnwein throws around them and the kids' by the odd lack of hyperbole which such pre-teens - especially girls - are normally wont to display. These girls seem truly apprehensive, doubtful, suspicious, frightened, disbelieving, even slightly shell-shocked. Yet Helnwein does not exploit their seeming fragility so much as commute it to us; the way he paints these quietly fearful children provokes not our sympathy but our empathy. We take a more doting view of the several girls' faces with their eyes closed (two of them in the dark), but amidst their wide-eyed sisters, the sleep of these innocents also seems fleeting. mehr...

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San Francisco Chronicle

Modernism’s 1982 Andy Warhol exhibition — the first time the Pop artist’s work was shown on the West Coast — has gone down in local cultural history as emblematic of Muller’s tendency to be at least one step ahead of the city’s artistic leanings. In addition to mounting 18 retrospectives of the Russian avant-garde, Modernism was the first California gallery to show the works of architect Le Corbusier, fashion photographer and Dada collagist Erwin Blumenfeld and Viennese conceptual artist Gottfried Helnwein, whose paintings are currently on view. mehr...

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Nicholas Haramis

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky. Meet the Helnweins.

February rains flooded the gravel road to Gurteen Castle, a 40-room fortress built in 1866 for Pope Pius IX’s chamberlain. Throughout the Republic of Ireland, stories about power outages dominated the evening news, but the Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein and his wife, Renate, their four children and three of their grandchildren were oblivious to the storm. Gottfried, in a skull-print bandanna and black sunglasses, spoke about the spirit of a jealous woman who tormented the burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese on her wedding day (she married Gottfried’s friend Marilyn Manson there in 2005 in a ceremony officiated by the surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky). Von Teese was nearly ready to walk down the aisle when the ceiling above her vanity came crashing down, narrowly missing her and her maid of honor. mehr...

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Jonathan Curiel

Using Disney Cartoons to Explore the Line Between Innocence and Experience

Strangeness and beauty are hallmarks of Helnwein's art. Helnwein's work is for grown-up audiences that know people are capable of the most horrible and the most uplifting things imaginable. The art world has long fallen for Helnwein's work. In its permanent collection, the de Young Museum has a stunning 8-by-10-foot Helnwein painting called Epiphany II (Adoration of the Shepherds), which depicts a room full of Nazi guards smiling and guffawing over a dark-haired Aryan boy held by a young, bare-breasted woman. Adoration of the Shepherds offers a tense, discomforting scene — beautifully drawn, with darkness and lightness exaggerating sightlines and perspective mehr...

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The newly established Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco (Art SV/SF) fair

To this day, Mickey remains for the artist a transitional figure, full of irony between the innocent imagination of children and an often cruel world. Even without these implications, Helnwein's gargantuan mousey portraits are gorgeous. (Modernism Inc., San Francisco mehr...

Ausgestellt sind Zeitgenossen wie etwa der russische Künstler Andrei Gennadiev, Wiener Aktionist Günter Brus, Gottfried Helnwein oder Hermann Nitsch.

Gleich zwei Kunstmessen buhlen derzeit in Wien um Kundschaft. Bei der Wikam gibt es neben alten Stücken Zeitgenössisches von Helnwein oder Brus. Die Art&Antique bietet neben Antiquitäten etwa Kokoschka - und es wurden 60 Tonnen Sand in der Hofburg aufgeschüttet. mehr...

24.07.2013 - 13.10.2013

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Albertina Museum Wien

Die Albertina widmet Gottfried Helnwein eine umfangreiche Retrospektive, die alle Stationen seines bisherigen Werdegangs abbildet. Helnwein, einer der bekanntesten österreichischen Künstler der Gegenwart, wurde durch seine hyperrealistischen Bilder von Kindern berühmt. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Gewalt und Schmerz in seinen Arbeiten sorgte in der Vergangenheit immer wieder für Diskussionen. mehr...

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TerminARTor: Kunst für den Frieden am Heldenplatz

Am 27. September wird in der Ehrenhalle am offenen Dach des Äußeren Burgtors die Ausstellung "TerminARTor" eröffnet. Zu sehen sind schwarze Bilder, die eine geheime Friedensbotschaft enthalten. Jedes Bild stammt von einem anderen Kunst-Stars. Mitgemacht haben zum Beispiel Gottfried Helnwein und Peter Weibel. Erst mit einem speziellen Teleskop sieht man die verborgenen Botschaften. mehr...

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Preiss Fine Arts: Elf der größten Fotografen der Welt zeigten ihr Können mit außergewöhnlichen Portraits.

Stars hinter der Kamera fotografierten Ikonen vor der Kamera - Ein Best of Stars: Gottfried Helnwein knipst Marilyn Manson, Alison Jackson hielt Lady Di und ihren Mittelfinger fest. In der Galerie Preiss Fine Arts startet am Freitag die Ausstellung "Face to Face". mehr...

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