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01. December 2004
San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
Summary of reviews and texts
The Child - works by Gottfried Helnwein
Palace of the Legion of Honor
THE CHILD EXHIBITION - 127,000 VISITORS- THE REVIEWS
The Child- ゴットフリード・ヘルンウｪイン（Gottfried Helnwein）
Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor, deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers.
But the most haunting images may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes. Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 17. November 2004 . California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. さてさて。旅行記めいたものを書きますと長くなり、途中でやめてしまうことが多いので、今回の旅行の中で印象に残った点を、つらつらと書いてみたいと思います。ゴットフリード・ヘルンウｪイン（Gottfried Helnwein）。この片仮名表記で合ってるかどうかわかりませんが。オーストリア人アーティストです。現在のコンテンポラリーでは、彼の作品展「The Child」が開催されていました。 |
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標題の美術館に、行ってきました。実は前日の月曜日にもサンフランシスコにいたのですが、たいていの美術館や博物館は、月曜が休み。なので観れず。
諦めきれなかった僕は、翌日再度サンフランシスコへ行きました。ちなみに、前日はステイ先のおっさんの車に乗せてもらいましたが、この日は一人で電車（カルトレイン）に乗って行きました。 結構市街地からは離れた所にありまして、バスを乗り継いで行く必要があります。美術館まで行くのは、18番のバス。 なんと、ラッキーなことに火曜日は入場無料。そのせいでしょうか、お年寄りや、学校の社会見学と思しき生徒たちと先生の姿が目に付きます。 この美術館で有名なのは、なんといってもロダンの「考える人（The Thinker）」でしょう。なんて、入ってすぐの前庭、目の前にあります。なんだか不思議な気分です。その割には、周りの人たちは結構無関心だったりしますが。見慣れてるんでしょうか。 ここには、ロダンの多数の彫刻をはじめ、マネ、モネ、ゴッホ、ピカソといった有名どころを含めた多数の絵画があります。それらも印象的だったのですが、ここで最も、いや、今回の旅行で最も印象的だったものに、ここで出会いました。 ゴットフリード・ヘルンウｪイン（Gottfried Helnwein）。この片仮名表記で合ってるかどうかわかりませんが。オーストリア人アーティストです。現在のコンテンポラリーでは、彼の作品展「The Child」が開催されていました。 |
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Harry S.Parker III
Director of Museums
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN: THE CHILD 14. August 2004 |
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Robert Flynn Johnson
Curator in Charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California Palace of the Legion of Honor THE CHILD |
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Artweek
Colin Berry
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN AT THE LEGION OF HONOR Helnwein is our chronicler, our conscience, the antidote to our failing memories. He refuses to let us forget. 01. October 2004 |
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San Francisco Chronicle
Kenneth Baker
Chronicle Art Critic DARK AND DETACHED, THE ART OF GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN DEMANDS A RESPONSE. The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein at San Francisco Fine Arts museums, Palace of the Legion of Honor. 09. August 2004 |
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San Francisco Chronicle
Steven Winn
Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic CHILDHOOD ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE. IN THE ARTS, IT'S DARK AND COMPLEX. Gottfried Helnwein's work is on display at the Legion of Honor and at Modernism Inc. 17. November 2004 |
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sf-station
Nirmala Nataraj
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN'S THE CHILD - INNOCENCE LOST 10. August 2004 San Francisco |
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San Francisco Chronicle
Carolyne Zinko
VIVID IMAGES CHALLENGE STATUS QUO 08. August 2004 |
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The Mercury News
Anita Amirrezvani
INNOCENCE LOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING ART BY HELNWEIN DISTURBS IN REMARKABLE SAN FRANCISCO SHOW 04. August 2004 |
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Oakland Post
Janos Gereben
LEGION'S 'THE CHILD' - FOR ADULTS ONLY An artist with conscience, a fearless man with a penchant for profoundly bizarre and complex, meaningful images, Gottfried Helnwein is making a grand re-entry to San Francisco. His work was exhibited here four years ago when his freaky mixed-media portrait of Mickey Mouse - "Mouse I" - was part of the SF Museum of Modern Art's "The Darker Side of Playland - Childhood Imagery." 04.August 2004 |
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Михаил Лемхин
РАССКАЗ О СЧАСТЛИВОМ ДЕТСТВЕ
Портрет Хельнвейна работы Михаила Лемхина San Francisco weekly KSTATI Also published in LA weekly PANORAMA and the Baltimore magazine SEAGULL. Mikhail Lemkhin 01. November 2004 |
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San Francisco Chronicle
Steven Winn
Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic CRITICS CHOICES 2004 TOP 10 26. Dezember 2004 |
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San Francisco Chronicle
Letters to the editor
CAUTION: KIDS READ DATEBOOK 13. August 2004 |
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News
Vienna
Evie Sullivan Interview VISION EINES REALISTEN der Austro-amerikanische kunst-Star über Ehe, Kinder und den Untergang Amerikas: von Schwarzenegger bis Michael Moore 10. August 2004 |
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Kronenzeitung
Kultur
HELNWEIN-SCHAU IN DEN USA Er begeistert Kalifornien 14. August 2004 |
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Valentina Braschi
Iitalia
"THE CHILD" WORKS BY GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN 01. August 2004 art - frequently asked questions www.artfaq.it |
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Anna L. Conti
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, "THE CHILD", AT THE LEGION OF HONOR, SAN FRANCISCO
25. August 2004 Working Artist's Journal San Francisco |
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USA TODAY
Liz Lufkin
SAN FRANCISCO - THE CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR "The Child": Works by Gottfried Helnwein 06. July 2004 |
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derStandard
Wien
Kultur | Bildende Kunst SOLO-PREMIERE VON GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN IN US-MUSEEN 12. Oktober 2004 |
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Donald Munro
ART TAKES TINY ADULTS FOR GRANTED
The Fresno Bee Berkeley 03. October 2004 |
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PRESS RELEASE
The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein
Contact Information Barbara Traisman btraisman@famsf.org 6/7/2004 Legion of Honor, Galleries 1 & 2 31 July–28 November 2004 San Francisco, 1 June 2004--The presentation at the Legion of Honor of The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein marks the first one-man museum showing in the United States of the work of Internationally-known Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein (b. Vienna, 1948). The display of approximately 19 paintings, 13 drawings and watercolors, and over 20 photographs spanning a 35-year period from the early 1970s until the present, features a major theme that has consistently appeared in his work: innocence as embodied by the child. |
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Legion of Honor - "The Child" Works by Gottfried Helnwein
The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein
July 31, 2004 — November 28, 2004 Internationally known Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein will have his first one-man museum exhibition in the United States, opening at the Legion of Honor in the summer of 2004. The exhibition, The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein features a major theme that has appeared in his work over the last 35 years. For Helnwein, the child is the symbol of innocence, but also innocence betrayed. In today’s world, the malevolent forces of war, poverty, sexual exploitation, and the numbing predatory influence of modern media assault the virtue of children. Helnwein, who grew up in Austria in the somber atmosphere of a defeated country in the years following World War II, has an emotional tie to children who have been robbed of experiencing childhood without trauma. |
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Sean Penn at the Legion of Honor
"I think that as an artist my strongest reaction to Helnwein's work is that it challenges me to be better at what I do. There are very few people that achieve utter excellence in what they do.
And I think that Gottfried Helnwein is certainly one of those people." |
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Marilyn Manson at the Legion of Honor
"Helnwein"s fight for expression and stance against oppression are reasons why I chose him as an artistic partner."
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Harry S.Parker III, Director of Museums
