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Group show, catalogue
This is a selection of dynamic works from the collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, demonstrating their commitment to social and political issues and artists of color.
Although their collecting focuses on the contemporary, both well-known and emerging artists, selected historic pieces show the breadth of their interest and the roots of socially conscious work in the early 20th century. ...

group show
21 international bekannte Fotografen aus Kunst und Werbung eröffnen in der Ausstellung "Bilder, die noch fehlten" eine neue Sicht auf Menschen mit Handicaps: Sie ermöglichen einen noch nicht gesehenen Blick auf die Individualität und die Würde des Einzelnen, der unbehindert ist durch die Wahrnehmungs-Stereotypen, die unser kollektives Bildgedächtnis prägen. ...

Österreichische Künstler wie Gottfried Helnwein, Eduard Angeli, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Bruno Gironcoli, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Afred Kubin, Gustav Klimt, Ernst Fuchs, Egon Schiele und viele mehr. Internationale Künstler wie Giorgio De Chirico, Paul Delvaux, Alberto Giacometti, Keith Haring, Allen Jones, Richard Lindner, Joan Miró, Niki de Saint Phalle, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern und Jean Tinguely. Arbeiten auf Papier – Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Mischtechniken - aus der umfangreichen Graphischen Sammlung Infeld sollen erstmals in einer eigenen Ausstellung ihre gebührende Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. ...

270 Werke der weltweit besten zeitgenössischen Fotografen im Moskauer Haus der Fotografie.
Die Ausstellung ist ein Projekt der DZ Bank im Rahmen der deutsch-russischen Kulturbegegnungen. ...

One man show
‘Helnwein in Tipperary’ is an exhibition of large-scale landscape painting by Austrian-born Artist Gottfried Helnwein in the South Tipperary Arts Centre, Nelson Street, Clonmel. The exhibition opens Friday, 26th November and runs until Saturday, December 18th.
Internationally respected, Gottfried Helnwein spends much of the year in his home and studio in Ireland. The exhibition at the Arts Centre features three large scale landscapes around Tipperary including the Nire Valley and Tullamaine.
The public is welcome to the official opening at 8 p.m. on Friday night which will be performed by Senator Martin Mansergh. ...

Group show ...

A documentary on the works of Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein commemorating the Reichskristallnacht will bw screened on November 13th and 14th 2004.
Noted Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, obsessed with the fact that his society could ignore the deaths of six million victims, dedicates his art to Holocaust remembrance. When the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht passes without commemoration, he creates an heroic art installation. Co-stars Maximiliam Schell, Sean Penn, Jason Lee. ...

New works
paintings and photography ...

Die Ausstellung zeigt das Leben und die Werke des amerikanischen Medienkünstlers und Autors William S. Burroughs. Neben Allen Ginsberg und Jack Kerouac zählt Burroughs zu den Gründervätern der Beat Generation, der ersten wegweisenden Gruppierung kultureller Dissidenz in Amerika nach 1945. Im Mittelpunkt stehen etwa 100 großformatige Fotos aus der Zeit von 1944 bis Mitte der 1990er Jahre, die ein eindrucksvolles Porträt des Autors vermitteln. Die Arbeiten stammen von Mapplethrope, Helnwein, Allen Ginsberg, Gerard Malanga und anderen Künstlern ...

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:: Gottfried Helnwein :
»Andy Warhol, New York« [1983]
»Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles« [1984]
»William S. Burroughs, Lawrence, USA« [1990]
»Michael Jackson, Köln« [1988]
»Willy Brandt, Bonn« [1989]
»Keith Richards, Berlin« [1990] ...

Alexander Bogomazov, R. Crumb, James Hayward, Gottfried Helnwein, George Koskas, Naomie Kremer, Le Corbusier, Kazimir Malevich, Mel Ramos, John Register, David Simpson, Mark Stockand more. ...

group show ...

Opens Tue - slide lecture at 5pm; viewing 6pm; free; runs through Sept. 24 ...

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. ...

..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 ...

Jul 2-30 Summer Exhibition Includes works by William Crozier, Gottfried Helnwein and Sarah Walker. ...

E. Fischl, G. Helnwein, D. Hirst, J. Schnabel, A. Jones u.a. (-31.8.) ...

July – August 2004 ...