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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 ... ...

ich mein .. extreme Sachen sind schon dabei .. die Kinder sind schon hart .. aber immer noch sehr ansprechend und ansehnlich...
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