21. April 2007
"RADAR" - works from thr Kent and Vicki Logan collection at the Denver Art Museum
During the tour, curator Blake Milteer stopped the group in front of German artist Gottfried Helnwein’s “Epiphany” (“Adoration of the Magi”). In the large-scale piece that resembles a documentary black and white photograph, a Madonnaesque mother displays her baby to attentive Nazi officers. The baby’s likeness to Hitler is uncanny. Despite, or perhaps because of the distinctly sinister overtones in the piece, it’s easy to be drawn in by the piece.
“Helnwein, characteristically, presents us with an ambiguous, haunting image and leaves us to wonder about its meaning ... ”
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