Gottfried Helnwein | NEWS | News Update | Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation

The exhibition is curated by Vicky A. Clark and Barbara J. Bloemink for the Regina Miller Gouger Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University and organized and toured by Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management, New York. Zines were curated by Richard Gribenas, and comics and graphic novels curated by Ana MerinoWith power and a zap, cartoon imagery has recently exploded. Artists, graphic novelists, and zine makers everywhere are taking advantage of the potential to tell stories in a recognizable and familiar language. Today, artists use cartoon imagery to address problematic issues that are difficult to assimilate into the mainstream through purely realistic depictions. In the process of taking on difficult social issues, they participate in the construction of identity in its many guises, weaving aspects such as race, gender, sexual orientation, violence and war, loss of innocence, and the commodification of identity into complex, layered tales. And at times, they make us laugh at ourselves.

Artists

Comic Release features art by more than fifty nationally-known and emerging artists, including Laylah Ali, Michael Bevilacqua, Blake Boyd, Enrique Chagoya, Michael Ray Charles, Nicole Eisenman, Inka Essenhigh, Neil Farber, Chris Finley, Karen Finley, Gottfried Helnwein, Arturo Herrera, Leslie Lew, Kerry James Marshall, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Walter Robinson, Al Souza, Kara Walker, and Sue Williams.

American Prayer

http://artmuseum.arizona.edu/S00exhibitions.shtml

The University of Arizona Museum of Art

From the panoramic historical perspective of the 26 panels of the 15th century Retablo of Ciudad Rodrigo to the flower power of Georgia O Keeffe's "Red Canna", the University of Arizona Museum of Art presents the public with a universe of images that inform and inspire. — Visit UAMA

UAMA: (520) 621-7567Fax: (520) 621-8770Mailing address:The University of Arizona Museum of ArtPO Box 210002Tucson, AZ 85721-0002

'THE DARKER SIDE OF PLAYLAND: CHILDHOOD IMAGERY FROM THE LOGAN COLLECTION' AT SFMOMA

Helnwein's Mickey at the SFMOMA

San Fracisco Museum of Modern Art — Alicia Miller (Review)

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Texts, reviews and essays referring to the art of Gottfried helnwein in Museums, collections and public spaces. — Texte, Rezensionen und Essays die sich auf die Kunst von Gottfried Helnwein in Museen, Sammlungen und im Öffentlichen Raum beziehen.

ÜBER MICKEY MOUSE MACHT MAN SICH NICHT LUSTIG

Mai 17, 2003,

Der Kultur-Channel — Gottfried Helnwein, der Maler aus Wien, und Marilyn Manson, der Schockrocker aus Canton/Ohio, verbindet seit etwa einem Jahr eine künstlerische Freundschaft. Wie ausgerechnet der Schockrocker auf den Maler Helnwein gekommen ist? Als Kind hat sich Manson Blackout, eine Platte der Scorpions, gekauft, und war so begeistert vom Cover, dass er ab da die Karriere Helnweins verfolgt hat. So verwundert es auch nicht, dass Helnwein auf die Frage "Welche Maler und bildenden Künstler haben dich am meisten beeinflusst?" folgendermen antwortet: "Egon Schiele, Gottfried Helnwein, Luis Buel, Da Da, [Hieronymus] Bosch, Warhol, Mark Ryden, Fellini. Und so weiter..."