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Gottfried Helnwein : The last Child
City of Waterford
Ireland
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Gottfried Helnwein :
John Ennis
Head of School of Humanities at Waterford Institute of Technology
Waterford

Ireland

"The last Child", Installation in the City of Waterford by Gottfried Helnwein
“All a poet can do today is warn”, World War 1 soldier poet, Wilfred Owen, wrote in a draft Preface for a book of anti-war poems he would never see published. He was killed on the eve of Armistice Day 1918. World War One, The Great War, The War to End All Wars . . . within twenty summers, Europe was engulfed again in the even greater catastrophies of the fascist era. The work of Gottfried Helnwein has its genesis in these years. They obsess him as a creative artist. As a kind of guardian angel, he grapples with them on our behalf. That such a nightmare would never visit us again. Or our children. Or our children’s children. Or “. . .all those still to come”. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Irish Examiner
Conor Kane
“For me, the reaction so far in Waterford is very good because people are talking about the theme of war and exploitation. For a child to grow up now, it’s the toughest time ever because children are flooded with violence in the media and internet and computer games where the only thing to do is kill people and they are very graphic. Entertainment is very violent but as long as it’s entertainment, it’s fine, but as soon as you do it as art, people get very sensitive. In my art I’m only reflecting the world and I wanted to raise awareness and make people think.” ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
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Gottfried Helnwein : Mouse V
Dublin Art Fair 2008
RDS, Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Fenton Gallery, Cork

Ireland

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Gottfried Helnwein : Sleep 5
Fenton Gallery, Cork
Dublin Art Fair 2008
Medb Ruane
Gottfried Helnwein's classic yet unnerving images transform sentimental representations of childhood into portraits of individual subjects frozen at the moment of suffering. His photo-paintings pirouette on the fine line between chocolate box pictures/excessive sentimentality and the cost to children of being treated as commodities, of suffering emotional or physical pain at a grown-up's hands.
High pictorial and technical values create compositions that recall contemporary cinema and seventeenth-century painting, expanding the treatment of time into epic. This apparent grandiosity plays against the immediacy of each suffering subject, underlining the different experience of time in childhood. Small hurts can devastate when you're a child. Big hurts stay with you for years, as survivors of Hitler's Anschluss testify.
Now, in the age of virtual use and abuse of children, Helnwein's insistence on valuing the humanity and charm of the littlest, the least powerful, offers a counterpoint to claims that suffering counts most when you're grown-up. It opens his practice into a series of pictorial mise-en-scènes, as did Rembrandt's tableaux in The Blinding of Samson (1636) or The Night Watch (1642). ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Sleep 6
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Alan Butler & Lola Rayne Booth

Curators

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Gottfried Helnwein : Helnwein studies the landscape in C.o. Kerry
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Gottfried Helnwein :
Simon & Schuster
New York
Mercedes Helnwein
Publication Date: February 12, 2008 ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Waterford Greyfriars Municipial Art Gallery
Ireland
Waterford Fringe Festival
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