It is no coincidence, that of all the big retrospectives that we have shown (at the Albertina Museum), from Gerhard Richter to Georg Baselitz, this exhibition of Gottfried Helnwein was the exhibition that by far touched people the most, and the one that moved some to tears. I almost couldn’t believe it. But Gottfried Helnwein shakes people at their core, he moves their hearts. And it pleases me, of course, when one can show, that art does not have to be art for art’s sake, that it can have a message, a message which affects people and moves them.