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Peter Frank
curated by Robert Flynn Johnson, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, July 31-Nov. 28
Austrian-born and educated and now living Los Angeles, Helnwein employs a hyperrealist manner that will remind Americans of Gerhard Richter but, if anything, works to opposite effect. Rather than re-confirm post-modernist cynicism, Helnwein rekindles post-war anguish. This selection, going back more than three decades, emphasizes his preoccupation with the image of the child, from early Nitsch- and Schwarzkogler-influenced photo-actions (with the requisite bandages) to recent large portrait-like heads and depictions of Christ-child-like babes attracting odd, menacing crowds. A perverse streak runs through the images, but it’s not pederasty: tinged with surrealism, it’s an enduring shame and anger at the Nazi past – and the artist’s suspicion that Naziism hasn’t been eradicated. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Die Erweckung des Kindes (The Resurrection of the Child)
san francisco magazine
Jonathon Keats
how one man's ideas about art gave San Francisco a taste for risk - and about time.
Look at his inexplicably damaged children, often painted in a midnight monochrome, and you can't help but try to fill in the story, and take a degree of responsibility.
Helnwein's work is what the art world likes to call "difficult, "often as an excuse to look the other way. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Sehnsucht 2
Die Welt
Kultur
Michael Pilz
Ab nächsten Montag werden erstmals neue CD-Alben verbilligt aber ohne Cover verkauft
Cover waren und sind mehr als lustige Verpackung. Sie sind Kunst.
Die Pop-Art Peter Blakes für "Sgt. Pepper" von den Beatles. Andy Warhols schlüpfrige Banane (Velvet Underground) oder der einladende Jeansstall (Rolling Stones). Cal Schenkel illustrierte (Zappa), Robert Crumb schraffierte (Joplin), Gottfried Helnwein schockte (Rammstein), Malcolm McLaren dilettierte (Sex Pistols). ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Selektion - Neunter November Nacht
The Malibu Times
Laura Tate
In the film "Ninth November Night," painter Gottfried Helnwein describes his first encounter with Jewish people during his childhood in Austria after the war, a bleak and dark period, one, he says, with no singing, no laughter. He was nine years old when he saw the two people walking down the street, very close together, walking quickly, looking down the whole time.
Helnwein became intrigued and wanted to know who they were. He asked everyone, all the adults, "Who are they?" But no one wanted to answer. Finally, someone said the word, one that he remembers the person had great difficulty saying - "Jews." ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Ninth November Night
The Malibu Times
Arts
Documentary about Holocaust paintings opens at new Malibu Theater, benefiting the Museum of Tolerance
The film tells the story of famed Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein, obsessed with a mission to use his art to preserve the memory of Holocaust persecutions. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Irish Landscape3  (Nire Valley)
The Times
UK
Cristin Leach
Irish and other Landscapes - Gottfried Helnwein at the Crawford Municipial Art Gallery in Cork
...these photo-paintings appear even more real than a photograph: they are hyper-real, super-saturated depictions of the world that surrounds us, as we would like to see it. Helnwein’s landscapes offer us the world as we see it in our mind’s eye, our memories.
What is certain is that with these works Helnwein has raised the bar for artists to come with art that is groundbreaking in terms of scale, skill and vision. Painted mountains, fields and sky can never be the same again. ... ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Night V (Phoney Death)
Kronenzeitung
Kultur
Haja
Er begeistert Kalifornien:
Tausende strömen in die Ausstellung des Österreichischen Malers Gottfried Helnwein im Fine Arts Museum San Francisco.
Helnweins Schaffen wird überall leidenschaftlich diskutiert. Viele bewundern seine aggressiven Bilder, manche sind empört, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hat ihm erst kürzlich einen Sitz im Kunst-Beirat des Bundesstaates Kalifornien angeboten. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Beautiful Victim I
San Francisco Chronicle
Entertainment
Letters to the editor
Editor -- I am writing to suggest that the large image accompanying the review of the Gottfried Helnwein show at the Legion of Honor ("The art of Gottfried Helnwein demands a response," Monday) was inappropriate to place on the first page of the Datebook section, especially above the fold and in such a large format. It is certainly right for art to be dark and disturbing, and certainly right for people to have relatively easy access to art of all kinds -- hey, I'm an ACLU member and an avid fan of some pretty disturbing artists -- but you have to remember that The Chronicle is a family newspaper and that the Datebook section is often the one that children turn to first when they pick up the paper to search for the comics. Anyone with younger children can easily imagine the really horrifying effect this particular image would have. Couldn't you have found an image that would have suggested the nature of Helnwein's art without being such so frightening to children? Barring that, you should have printed it inside the fold and smaller.
Thanks for thinking about the kids next time.
Leif Brown
Berkeley ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Helnwein working on "Irish landscape" (Tullamaine)
Irish Examiner
Arts
Alannah Hopkin
Gottfried Helnwein, Irish and other Landscapes
Visitors to Gottfried Helnwein's show of panoramic landscapes at the Crawford Municipial Gallery in Cork are having trouble deceiding either they are looking at paintings or photographs. Some are up to seven metres in length, by two metres wide:
a breathtaking, epic scale. They are extraordinarily beautiful, by any standards, and, yes, they are paintings.
The finish may be photorealist, but these are not direct transcriptions of what the camera lens sees; they are edited and informed by the artist's eye.
Take a close look at Irish Landscape III (Nire Valley) or Irish Landscape IV (County Waterford). Nor do they represent what the naked eye can see. American Landscape (Death Valley) is so wide that it has an almost vertiginous effect.
Dawn Williams who curated this show has done a superb job. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Ali
sf-station
San Francisco
Nirmala Nataraj
Beyond his treatment of common children's motifs - dolls, toys and ambivalent nymphets- Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein's vision is shrouded in an aura of enigmatic darkness. With his giant color portraits of stillborn babies; paintings that juxtapose Nazi-era photographs with his own images; and pictures of deformed, abjectly countenanced children swathed in bandages, Helnwein is preoccupied with the indelible suffering that mirrors the more delicate aspects of youth. His work is hauntingly gorgeous and suffused with pathos, precisely because viewers are immediately aware of the larger threat that looms within the pieces: the rupture of innocence. ... +


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