ARTISTHelnwein

Gottfried Helnwein’s paintings of children are both touching and disturbing. The hyperrealistic character of his images serves to intensify this effect still further. The vulnerable and defenseless child serves as the central motif in his examination of the themes of pain, injury, and violence.

Tony Cragg, Gottfried Helnwein, Maria Lassnig, Hermann Nitsch, Arnulf Rainer, Hubert Scheibl, Erwin Wurm, Eduard Angeli, Gunter Damisch, Xenia Hausner, Kiki Kogelnik

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Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris - 16 septembre 2006 - 15 janvier 2007 Museum of Modern Art Montreal - March 8, 2007 - June 24, 2007 It All Starts Again with a Mouse: Disney Recycled by Contemporary Art - Pop Art made Mickey and Donald into icons, and artists continue to be inspired by Disney’s legacy today. This section shows some thirty works based on Disney characters, created by a diverse group of modern and contemporary artists that includes Gary Baseman, Christian Boltanski, Gottfried Helnwein, Bertrand Lavier, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Saul and Andy Warhol.

However, the weight of Barks's effect on the world runs much deeper and often along more indirect paths than such explicit influence. For example, conceptual artist extraordinaire Gottfried Helnwein once described a moment of revelation in Europe after World War II: " Opening my first Carl Barks Donald Duck comic book felt like seeing the daylight again for someone who had been trapped underground by a mine-disaster."

Gottfried Helnwein konzipierte und organisierte die erste Musumsausstellung des künstlerischen Werkes von Carl Barks. Von 1994 bis 1997 wurde die Retrospektive in zehn europäischen Museen gezeigt und von über 700 000 Menschen gesehen. - 2007 stellt er die Ausstellung für das Karikaturmuseum Krems neu zusammen, die nun das erste mal in Österreich gezeigt wird.

The exhibition was organised and curated by Gottfried Helnwein

"Die neue Ausstellung von Gottfried Helnwein soll ja phaenomenal sein, die Kritiker ueberschlagen sich fast." "Hab' davon gehört ! Werd' ich mir bei Gelegenheit ansehen müssen. Ist ja Pflicht!"

catalogue

Disney artist Carl Barks (1901-2000) created one of Walt Disney's most famous characters, Scrooge McDuck. Barks also produced more than 500 comic book stories. His work is ranked among the most widely circulated, best-loved, and most influential of all comic book art. Although the images he created are known virtually everywhere, Barks was an isolated storyteller, living in the desert of California and preferring to labor without public fanfare during most of his career. The influence of Barks's work on such filmmakers as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and on such artists as Gottfried Helnwein has extended Barks's significance far beyond the boundaries of comics.

Der 91-jährige Zeichner Carl Barks über sein Leben mit der berühmtesten Ente der Welt.

Those who have used the same or multiple forms of the image many times over many years include Lichtenstein, Helnwein, Oldenburg, Pensato, Ospina, and Chagoya. The facade of Disney and America in the guise of the Mouse is one of the things that Helnwein and others present to us. Claes Oldenburg took the facade to its literal extreme when he proposed a flat Mouse's image for a facade to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, and produced a flat Mouse sculpture. Helnwein, Oldenburg and others are using the Mouse to make social and cultural comments about our society, in the broadest sense, but with humor.

The first full-length critical study of the comic artist who created Duckburg and Uncle Scrooge

(Katalog) 36 Seiten, Heft, farbig. BxH: 24,5x30,5cm. Cobra museum voor moderne kunst 2004. Sprache: Niederländisch, Englisch Katalog der Ausstellung 'Donald Duck 70 jaar jong!' in Amstelveen, 2004. Texte und Bilder zu Donald Duck, Kaj Stenvall, Gottfried Helnwein und Carl Barks. Beilage: faksimilierte Reprint-Ausgaben der Nummern 1 (1952) und 2500 des holländischen Magazins Donald Duck, een vrolijk Weekblad.

(Auszug) Die Ehrungen häufen sich. 1991 wird sie von Gottfried Helnwein porträtiert und für seine Reihe "48 Portraits" mit den (nach seiner Meinung) wichtigsten Frauen des Jahrhunderts aufgenommen. Erika Fuchs, Aus dem Bilderzyklus "48 Portraits", von Gottfried Helnwein, Mixed Media, Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen

One man show Exhibition catalogue

Cover: painting "Mouse I" by Gottfried Helnwein