August 10th, 2001
Kilkenny, Ireland
Helnwein at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2001
one-man show at the Butler House and large Installations in the medival city center of Kilkenny
Epiphany I, Adoration of the Magi
Epiphany III, Presentation at the Temple
Late Regret
Mary-Sheila Walsh, Aoife Connelly and Eimear Connelly
Head of a Child
The Kilkenny Arts Festival 2001
Curator: Claire O'Donoghue — GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN
The Irish Times (frontpage) | 07.Aug.2001
Workmen finish one of a series of prints measuring 9.3 metres by 6.2 metres by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.The prints of Kilkenny children will hang on buildings in Kilkenny as parts of its arts festival beginning on August 10th.
Aiden Dunne
The Irish Times | 01.Aug.2001 — While it is a painting, Epiphany is typical in its almost interchangeable use of photography and painting: both played their part in the achievement of the eventual, quasi-photographic image. He is a fine photographer, and his photographic portraits of Kilkenny children (enlarged to an enormous scale) form one strand of his festival exhibitions. The careful adaptation of existing imagery is another trait, and his references extend back through fine art history as well as history itself...
Irish Indipendent (news) | 01.Aug.2001
RECORD numbers are expected to visit Kilkenny's art festival over the next week. — Organisers say attendance at shows and exhibitions on the first weekend indicates that up to 80,000 people will have visited by the time the 10-day event finishes next Sunday.
Patricia Deevy
Irish Independent | 01.Aug.2001 — Once an agitated spectator wondered how an apparently nice man could produce such disturbing imagery. Helnwein replied: "What bothers you is the pictures that get triggered in your own head." Perusing a catalogue of his work in preparation for a meeting is a journey through disgust, fear, fascination and admiration to finally - almost - attachment.
Sean Keane
Kilkenny People | 27.Jul.2001 — A major controversy has erupted over plans to hang huge paintings outside City Hall during the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Examples of the paintings to be displayed were shown to members of Kilkenny Corporation on Monday night and it sparked uproar in the chamber.
Chris Dooley (South East Correspondent) — The Irish Times
Ireland on Sunday | 26.Aug.2001
A controversial "Nazi" image by artist Gottfried Helnwein was daubed with red paint last week as Kilkenny Arts Festival entered its final days. Another Helnwein print, of a local girl, was set on fire and extensively damaged.