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San Jose State University
Natalie and James Thompson Gallery
Group show
Opens Tue - slide lecture at 5pm; viewing 6pm; free; runs through Sept. 24 ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Kind II, Neunter November Nacht, (Detail)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Harry S.Parker III

Director of Museums Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

For Helnwein, the child is the symbol of innocence, but also of innocence betrayed. In today’s world, the malevolent forces of war, poverty, and sexual exploitation and the numbing, predatory influence of modern media assault the virtue of children. Robert Flynn Johnson, the curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, has assembled a thought-provoking selection of Helnwein’s works and provided an insightful essay on his art in this exhibition catalogue.
Helnwein’s work concerning the child includes paintings, drawings, and photographs, and it ranges from subtle inscrutability to scenes of stark brutality.
Of course, brutal scenes—witness The Massacre of the Innocents—have been important and regularly visited motifs in the history of art. What makes Helnwein’s art significant is its ability to make us reflect emotionally and intellectually on the very expressive subjects he chooses. Many people feel that museums should be a refuge in which to experience quiet beauty divorced from the coarseness of the world. This notion sells short the purposes of art, the function of museums, and the intellectual curiosity of the public.
The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein will inspire and enlighten many; it is also sure to upset some. It is not only the right but the responsibility of the museum to present art that deals with important and sometimes controversial topics in our society. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Robert Flynn Johnson

Curator in Charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

..A clarity of vision in his subject matter was emerging in Helnwein's art that was to stay consistent throughout his career. His subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art, although it included self-portraits, is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead created the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within.
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"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."
Jean Cocteau ... +

Fenton Gallery
Cork
Group Show
Jul 2-30 Summer Exhibition Includes works by William Crozier, Gottfried Helnwein and Sarah Walker. ... +

Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann
Düsseldorf
group show
E. Fischl, G. Helnwein, D. Hirst, J. Schnabel, A. Jones u.a. (-31.8.) ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Irish landscape 1 (Nire Valley)
The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
Cork
Ireland
Landscapes
July – August 2004 ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Charles Bukowski
Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg
Bernd Reiß

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

Christian Boltanski, Jochen Gerz, Gottfried Helnwein, Nobuyoshi Araki, Dennis Adams, Piotr Uklanski. und August Sander.

Gottfried Helnwein - portraitiert in der Serie „Faces“ Persönlichkeiten wie Michael Jackson, Willy Brandt, Maximilian Schell, Elton John, Andy Warhol, Leni Riefenstahl u.a.. Obgleich vielmals zuvor fotografiert und jedem aus den Medien bekannt, zeigen sie sich in den Bildern jenseits aller Eitelkeiten, in einer ungewohnten Offenheit und Ehrlichkeit, die geprägt ist von Verfall und Tod. ... +

Schmeidler-Goetz Gallery
Los Angeles
The 7th Annual West Hollywood Art Walk ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
cobra museum of modern art
Amsterdam
70 jaar jong
group show ... +

Western Washington University
Western Gallery
Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein’s painting reveals a boy keeling in bedtime prayer to a levitating vision of Donald Duck ... +


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