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15/10/2013
Albertina Museum
Vienna
250 000 Visitors Saw the Helnwein-Retrospective at the Albertina Museum
The Reviews
The Helnwein retrospective was the most successful exhibition of a living artist in the history of the Albertina.
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01/12/2004
Palace of the Legion of Honor
San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
'The Child' Exhibition - 130,000 VISITORS- The reviews
Summary of reviews and texts
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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26/12/2004
San Francisco Chronicle
Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic
CRITICS CHOICES 2004 - Helnwein
Steven Winn
Arts and culture
TOP 10 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."
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24/01/2017
Los Angeles Review of Books
Confronting the Intolerable
Brad Evans interviews Gottfried Helnwein
Throughout the entire history, the only forces capable of resisting tyranny and suppression are artists, thinkers, and writers. These are the makers of what we call culture, which means the combination of aesthetics and spirituality. Dictators know that, they have a very good sense for the only serious threat to their power: free creation and free communication. On this planet, creating means to stand up, to rebel, to resist, it means striking back.
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26/10/2023
France 24
'No limit' to hell people can inflict on children, says artist Helnwein
Vienna (AFP) – Art is "probably the only help one has to cope" in a world being traumatised by the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, one of Austria's most famous artists told AFP.
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03/01/2021
The Free Lunch Commission
Conformity is no Place for me
The Entropy Memo
Any belief system will pre-condition you to see only things that you are supposed to see, but it will make you blind to anything you are not allowed to perceive, even if it happens right in front of you. Through various education systems in all history, people have been convinced to abandon their own values and dreams and have been programmed to think and behave in certain ways. So people have developed a good workable system of selective perception. But there are always those that can’t be broken and properly programmed: artists, writers and thinkers. Nothing scares authoritarian regimes more than art and free creation. Why would Hitler burn mountains of books and paintings and ban all arts? Why would Stalin—the master over life and death of almost 300 million people, a man who commanded the biggest army and secret service that ever existed—be afraid of a poem by Anna Akhmatova? Why would Mao be so obsessed with destroying China’s entire cultural heritage? Why would FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, while denying the existence of organised crime in the US, put so much effort into harassing and spying on every artist from Hemingway, Elvis, Thomas Mann to John Lennon? The last thing any human society wants are free beings. Don’t wait for somebody to grant you freedom, it will never happen; if you want freedom, you have to seize it. Creating art is one way of doing it, and for me it’s the most effective way. On this planet, creating means to stand up, to rebel, to resist. It means striking back.
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26/06/2018
Der Spiegel
Gottfried Helnwein - Der Hingucker
Hasnain Kazim
Ein Mädchen mit Maschinenpistole im Anschlag, gerichtet auf den Betrachter - ein riesiges Kunstwerk sorgt in Wien für Aufmerksamkeit. Der Maler ist der weltberühmte umstrittene Künstler Gottfried Helnwein. Eine Begegnung.
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01/03/2005
ARTnews
Volume 104/Number 3
REVIEW: Gottfried Helnwein, San Francisco
Kenneth Baker
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.
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14/11/2013
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
»Ich kann mich in kein System einfügen«
Sven Michaelsen
Interview mit Gottfried Helnwein
Als Kind zerschnitt sich der Wiener Maler Gottfried Helnwein die Hände mit Rasierklingen. Durch Donald Duck entdeckte er die Kunst. Heute sind seine Horrorvisionen längst Kunstgeschichte. Ein Gespräch über die Abgründe eines ungewöhnlichen Lebens.
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11/10/2023
NEWS
Ich habe kein Talent zur Unterwerfung
Susanne Zobl
Interview mit Österreichs Malerfürst Gottfried Helnwein. Über Biden und als Katastrophe und die zu Tode gecancelte Kunst.
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23/10/2023
Die Presse
Gottfried Helnwein - „Ich habe mich in meiner Arbeit ein Leben lang gegen Gewalt gestellt"
Barbara Gasser
Gottfried Helnwein zählt zu den bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Künstlern. Zum 75. Geburtstag widmet die Albertina dem Künstler eine Retrospektive und Barbara Gasser spricht für “die Presse”mit Gottfried Helnwein
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22/10/2023
Der Wiener
Gottfried Helnwein - in aller Schärfe
Franz J. Sauer
Von 25. Oktober bis 11. Februar bringt die Albertina eine große Ausstellung seiner Werke der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte, seit jeher setzt er sich in seinen Bildern mit den Themen Schmerz, Verletzung und Gewalt auseinander. Das spiegelt sich auch in Gottfried Helnweins Ansichten zu den großen Themen unseres Planeten wieder, die der in Wien geborene und in Irland und den USA lebende Künstler auch mit 75 noch in ungefilterter Schärfe artikuliert.
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31/01/2024
Ober Österreichische Nachrichten
Gottfried Helnwein: „An der Schwelle zu einem neuen globalen Schlachtfest“
Peter Grubmüller,
Interview
Es scheint, dass die Menschheit nicht fähig ist, aus der Geschichte zu lernen, der Wahnsinn und die Vernichtungsorgie der beiden Weltkriege, die Millionen Menschen das Leben gekostet haben, waren offensichtlich noch nicht genug, denn wieder stehen wir an der Schwelle zu einem neuen globalen Schlachtfest, das möglicherweise das letzte sein könnte.
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13/01/2023
NEWS
Heimkehr eines Weltstars
Heins Sichrovsky, Susanne Zobl
Interview
Ich habe überhaupt kein Talent zur Konformität. Was immer ich mache oder sage, sorgt seltsamer Weise immer wieder für Aufregung und Empörung. Politisch korrekt zu sein, wird mir wohl nie gelingen.
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22/03/2022
PARNASS
Gottfried Helnwein - Ein Besuch in Irland
Silvie Aigner und Andreas Maurer
Kunst sollte gar keine Aufgabe haben. Kunstwerken eine Aufgabe und Regeln zu verpassen oder zu diskutieren, was Kunst soll oder nicht soll, darf oder nicht darf, ist immer der falsche Ansatz. Diese Tendenz, Kunst zu regulieren, ist verständlich, da sie natürlich auch potenziell gefährlich sein kann – vor allem für jene, die nach Macht streben. Kritische Künstler sind in einer Diktatur daher auch stets die ersten Ziele von Repression. Deswegen kam man auf die Idee, Kunst als „entartet“ zu bezeichnen, deswegen werden Bilder zerstört und Bücher verbrannt.
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28/12/2012
Forbes
The True Impact of Violence On Childhood? Why Every American Ought To See The Paintings Of Gottfried Helnwein.
Jonathon Keats
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.
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14/09/2008
The Sunday Times
Culture
Bloodied but Unbowed
Gerry McCarthy
Fury greeted Gottfried Helnwein's Waterford Installation, but his art deals in public trauma, says Gerry McCarthy
Again and again, he has painted children in brutal, violent settings. He has used Christian iconography to depict Nazi officers, and juxtaposed rampaging soldiers with Images of childhood innocence. Visceral reactions come with the territory: one Installation in Cologne was physically attacked by neo Nazis. And yet, he says, he does not set out to shock. "Shock is a useless effect," he says. "Somebody in shock is completely useless. I want to make somebody think." Instead, Helnwein's work speaks of a deep psychological need for meaning, even as it takes the form of violence and confrontation. Such an approach is rooted in the uneasy silences of growing up in post-war Austria and the shattered illusions of his early adult life, yet is still infused with an uneasy idealism. His art has brought him material rewards. Over the past 30 years, he has become an art superstar. His paintings and photographs command large prices. As he talks in his Co Tipperary castle, garbed in black clothes and dark glasses, Helnwein has the air of a veteran rock star and the lifestyle to match it.
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02/10/2014
CNN
Astonishing photo-realistic portraits
Ones to Watch
The images you are about to see may shock or confound you. Gottfried Helnwein frequently depicts children in his gigantic, mesmerizing portraits, along with "low culture" icons including Donald Duck, with the loss of childhood innocence as a reoccurring theme.
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30/05/2008
Los Angeles Times
Arts & Culture
Gottfried Helnwein - Dark Inspiration
Lynell George
The artist, who has taken on war crimes, Catholicism and the Holocaust in his works, is inspired by the city.
Some might think that Los Angeles - its unrelenting sun, its one-step-away-from-reality perch -- is an incongruous place for someone like Helnwein. What he creates, regardless the medium - watercolor, oil, photography, performance art, sculpture - is a thorny psychological excursion into our sublimated self, our obscured corners and dark humors. His explorations into war crimes, Catholicism, disfigurement and the Holocaust are both unflinching and surgical. His work is in museum collections around the world, including those of LACMA and the Smithsonian, and critics have labeled it grotesque, fearless, disturbing and "veer[ing] dangerously close to offensive." People are surprised, he says, when they discern that he doesn't "seem insane."
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13/12/2022
Kurier
Gottfried Helnweins Zeichen für das "Recht auf Empathie"
Michael Huber
Am Dienstag wird ein großes Werk installiert. Ausgehend von den Ereignissen im Iran soll es aufrufen, Gewalt an Frauen und Kindern nicht zu tolerieren
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