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Gottfried Helnwein :
Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.
The Crocker Art Museum has launched a new suite of weekly programs entitled Thursdays ’til 9. Every Thursday until 9 p.m., the new evening series offers visitors a chance to explore the many forms of art.
In the coming months, visitors can look forward to screenings of “The Silence of Innocence,” a documentary on artist Gottfried Helnwein, who is the subject of a career-spanning survey at the Crocker from Jan. 29 through April 24. ... +

The New York Observer
Culture
Video
The New York Observer recently spoke with Janine Cirincione of the Friedman Benda gallery about the provocative young artist Gottfried Helnwein's first show, "I Was A Child," which runs there through Oct. 23. For a taste of his grim works, check out our video preview below. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
NY Arts Magazine
Helnwein is highly recommended even to those who do not have a predilection for morbid or grotesque art, for his intention is not merely to shock or titillate. Whereas many modern artists get lost in the artifice of excessive conceptualism, Gottfried Helnwein continues to produce challenging, thought-provoking work based on the weight of the subject matter, not the way in which it is presented. Having produced a wide range of imagery in a variety of mediums, Helnwein’s development is fascinating to trace from conceptual beginnings to his current synthesis of pop and fine art. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Flavorwire
Visual Arts
Paul Laster
Friedman Benda Gottfried Heinwein painting
Using the metaphor of youthful innocence as a means to reveal the age-old violence that continues to permeate our times, Gottfried Helnwein produces impeccable realist paintings that send shivers down the spine. Casting children in the roles of both perpetrators and victims of war and terror, the LA-based artist strikes a sensitive nerve with his haunting visual narratives. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Londonist
London's taste for the eclectic and avant-garde keeps it firmly at the frontiers of fashion - creating the perfect, fertile environment from which an abundance of new designers can emerge.
On a more costume/fashion note at college I designed costumes for dark fairytale operas- Gottfried Helnwein was such a fantastic inspiration with his extravagant rococo style opera dresses filled with lights. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Annunciation (Mouse 12)
NY ART BEAT
Friedman Benda presents an exhibition of new paintings by Gottfried Helnwein.
Helnwein creates hallucinatory images of reverie, and it is with powerful gestures of light and shadow that he seduces the viewer even as he depicts the aftermath of violence, brutality and suffering. His paintings often depict children as victims of unexplained violence, representing them as archetypal characters in a theatre of cruelty perpetrated by unseen forces. Equally mesmerizing are the artist’s personifications of Mickey Mouse and anime figures, casting them in his on-going exploration of psychological and sociological anxiety and society’s darkest impulses. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
New York Times
Culture
Mark Rozzo
Opening Sept. 16 at New York’s Friedman Benda gallery, ‘‘Gottfried Helnwein: I Was a Child’’
... his startling body of work: macabre paintings with photographic resonance played out on a grand scale and often in public settings. Throughout his career, Helnwein has glided easily between watercolor, oil and installation work, but his big subject has always been childhood, and not the happy sort. With titles like ‘‘The Murmur of the Innocents’’ and ‘‘God of Sub-Humans,’’ these works — executed with obsessive, old-master-worthy technique — can be as bludgeoning as, say, a Rammstein riff, but you can’t take your eyes off them. ... +

Chicago Now
Art Talk
Jeriah Hildwine
High polish and verisimilitude are undeniably impressive when done right: Gottfried Helnwein's "Child" paintings, Jeff Koons' faux-inflatables, or Patricia Piccinini's eerily uncanny monsters would all fall flat if their slickly unquestionable surfaces were any less perfect. ... +

Art Talk Chicago
Stephanie Burke and Jeriah Hildwine
Chicago Gallery Snack Report: Friday, July Where the F*#K are YOU going?
Salvador Dali's "Hitler Masturbating" is a masterpiece of satire, or so says my inner Beavis, anyhow.  Gottfried Helnwein's painting Epiphany I is another excellent example, reminding us that not only was Hitler once a baby, but also that we can recognize him without his mustache. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Art Daily
The Crocker Art Museum will present a series of special exhibitions to celebrate its opening, among them Wayne Thiebaud: Homecoming, a new retrospective of the work of Sacramento’s most famous artist, who held his first solo exhibition at the Crocker nearly 60 years ago.
The works of Gottfried Helnwein, and John Buck will be featured in exhibitions opening in the winter of 2011. In summer 2011, the Crocker will present A Summer of Impressionism, with works by renowned French and American artists showcased in exhibitions alongside works by California Impressionists, one of the central strengths of the Crocker’s permanent collection. ... +

RTT News
Global Financial Newswires
"The figure with the mask is the artist Gottfried Helnwein medical and character with a bird mask and white gloves by the impresario Lewis Carroll, is Marilyn Manson." ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
WorstPreviews
The figure in the medical mask is artist Gottfried Helnwein and the bird-face masked character and white gloved Lewis Carroll impresario, is Marilyn Manson.
Back in 2004, Marilyn Manson announced that he will write and direct a feature film called "Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll." The film never happened, but in 2006, a promo trailer was shot. That trailer is now online. This teaser features real-life twin sisters engaging in questionable acts and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. The figure in the medical mask is artist Gottfried Helnwein and the bird-face masked character and white gloved Lewis Carroll impresario, is Marilyn Manson." ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Dread Central
The figure in the medical mask is artist Gottfried Helnwein
Originally conceived in 2004 with pre-production throughout 2005 via The Wild Bunch (UK) and with an initial budget of $5-7 million, 'Phantasmagoria' was due to begin filming in 2006. Lily Cole, inspiration of Tim Burton's recent 'Alice in Wonderland', was originally cast as Manson's Alice for 'Phantasmagoria'. This teaser also features real-life twin sisters engaging in questionable acts and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. The figure in the medical mask is artist Gottfried Helnwein, and the bird-face masked character and white-gloved Lewis Carroll impresario [are both] Marilyn Manson. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
TheWrap
Covering Hollywood
Sharon Waxman
Kevin Smith Sweetens Weinstein's Offer for Miramax
This amazing, eight foot Gottfried Helnwein piece will look dope in some lucky Disney exec's office! So 600 mil... PLUS a Mickey painting! Filmmaker Kevin Smith writes WaxWord that he has desperately been trying to help Bob and Harvey Weinstein close the deal to buy Miramax. "I've sweetened the Weinstein's offer to buy Miramax back," he writes. "All day yesterday and just now this morning, I've been throwing Tweets and large artwork at the Mouse to up the ante, but they've not responded." Smith is a Weinstein diehard, who has been following the MIramax sale closely. The brothers bravely backed Smith in making such lasting cultural oddities ...landmarks... movies as "Clerks," "Mallrats," and "Chasing Amy." He has been Twittering (@thatkevinsmith) to his million-plus followers about the deal - offernig Mickey Mouse paintings, for example. The deal is in the midst of pitched negotiations since the Weinsteins were granted an exclusive window through the weekend to try and close the deal. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
ARTslant
the #1 contemporary art network
Calvin Phelps
This leads to the current governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Who will he select to depict him – in all his glory? There already exists an exquisite portrait of Schwarzenegger the body-builder done in 1977 by Jamie Wyeth. Were they alive today, perhaps Richard Rubenstein (of Interview cover fame), or even Andy Warhol himself, could have painted the official portrait. Since post-Studio 54, Schwarzenegger has been good friends with Gottfried Helnwein. Given his style of hyperrealism, I would not be surprised if he is chosen to paint the official portrait. This would be a similar break with tradition as was Brown's work, but given the history of this Governor and the unorthodox nature of both his personality and his ascension, a traditional portrait would seem out of place. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Paradigm Publishers
Henry A. Giroux
Torturing Children in the War on Terror
cover art: blue child by Gottfried Helnwein ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
Toronto Star
William Littler 

Music Columnist

Helnwein's realization of the final scene takes the breath away: a view of dozens of bloodied children's bodies, some of them hanging, some of them turning over and over in mid-air, as a vocal ensemble sings their words while kneeling on stage.
This vision connects eerily with an exhibition in the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Centre plaza, adapted from one the Austrian Artist mounted in Cologne in 1988, marking the 50th anniversary of the Nazis' anti-Jewish Kristallnacht. It shows two rows of innocent, haunted-looking child's faces, one row with eyes open; the other with eyes closed, lined up as if in a concentration camp (Selektion is the exhibit's title). ... +

Gottfried Helnwein :
NTDTV - New Tang Dynasty Television
The Independent Chinese-language TV network
Famous Austrian designer and artist Gottfried Helnwein designed the set and costumes for “The Child Dreams” Opera.  He also presents his work outside the opera. Helnwein says his work and the playwright’s have a strong internal connection.
 Gottfried Helnwein: “In my work, the center of everything was always the child, the child versus the world of death, the world of corruption, the world of greed and destruction, and the child standing for innocence, purity, and I think that's a spirit of the play.” ... +

Jerusalem Post
Israel
Ury Eppstein
Levin's profoundly philosophical, abstract and ironic, sharply pointed ideas hardly lend themselves to the operatic medium. What came closest to Levin's spirit were Gottfried Helnwein's set and Omri Nitzan's direction. These were the main heroes of the performance, highly imaginative, altogether unconventional - without gliding into sophistication - and thought provoking. ... +

Gottfried Helnwein : Billboard, Israel
Billboard
Jerusalem Post, Magazine
Maxim Reider

Coverstory

The world through a child's eyes
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