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The Book Bukowski in Pictures is the first pictorial biography of cult writer, Charles Bukowski. The writer's extraordinary private and public life is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, most published for the first time. Extracts from Bukowski's poetry and prose are sprinkled throughout, together with drawings, cartoons, manuscripts, rare broadsides and personal letters. It features powerful new portraits of Bukowski by leading photographers such as Gottfried Helnwein and Tony Lane, former art director of Rolling Stone, as well as work by R.Crumb. All photographs have detailed captions by biographer Howard Sounes who has also written a powerful introductory text with new revelations gleaned from Bukowski's recently declassified FBI file. The end result is a fascinating life in pictures that will be essential for all Bukowski fans.

exhibition-catalogue Albertina, Wien - 10. 10. 2000 - 18. 10. 2000 Galerie Suppan, Wien - 23.10. - 25.11. 2000

Gottfried Helnwein, "Mickey", oil and acrylic on canvas,210cm x 310cm

Historian Peter Selz has compared Gottfried Helnwein's tortured, screaming, and bandaged self-portraits to Messerschmidt's sculptural self-portraits, but the artist has said, " The reason why I took up the subject of self-portraits and why I have put myself on stage was to function as a kind of representative for the suffering, abused and oppressed human being. I needed a living body to demonstrate and exemplify the effect of violence inflicted upon a defenseless victim. There is nothing autobiographical or therapeutical about it, and I don’t think it says anything about me personally.

catalogue Antico Monastero di Santa Chiara "E’ sicuramente importante dimostrare, per la prima volta nell’Europa Occidentale, la comune fede in un unico Signore risorto" Mons. Michel Berger

Philip Burke, Anita Kunz, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Robert Risko, Robert Grossman, Milton Glaser, Ralph Steadman, Paul Davis, Shirley Manson, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Mark Ryden, Austin Powers, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Steve Brodner, Julian Allen, Joni Mitchell, Gottfried Helnwein, Christina Ricci, Suzanne Vega, Las Vegas, The Notorious.

The modernist movement has shaped our era as has no other. This insightful collection of original essays explores the impact of modernism on American culture and the ways in which modernism remains a key to understanding American art and society.

...Gottfried Helnwein. El ser humano se relaciona permanentemente con el medio ambiente y para ello debe establecer mecanismos de defensa y adaptación en diferentes sustratos de mayor o menor cercanía. La familia, por ejemplo,

The author wishes to express his admiration for the magnificent painting Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Gottfried Helnwein, in turn inspired by Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and acknowledge its inspiration for this story. Hopefully, the beat goes on.

"Kunst ist die einzige Freiheit, die uns geblieben ist." Gottfried Helnwein (*1948, österr. Maler/Graphiker) (Seite 135)

Die Ausstellung präsentiert vierzig ausgewählte Statements großer Photographen des 20.Jahrhunderts: von Cartier-Bresson, Lebeck, Chargesheimer bis zu Klauke und Helnwein wird jeweils eine bedeutende künstlerische Position gezeigt. Die Ausstellung konzentriert sich nicht auf das Einzelbild, sondern komponiert ganze Werkgruppen zu großformatigen Tableaus und unterstreicht so den "journalistischen Aspekt" in der Photographie dieses Jahrhunderts. Einen Abschluß findet dieser Jahrhundertrückblick in drei künstlerischen Positionen, die in sehr persönlicher Weise Stellung zur gesellschaftlichen Situation beziehen: Jürgen Klaukes "Self Performance" (1972/73), Philip Pococks Berliner Szenen (1982) sowie Gottfried Helnweins "Poems" (1998).

Helnweins Thema ist der malträtierte, unterdrückte Mensch, am beeindruckendsten in einer Serie von mißhandelten und verstümmelten Kinderköpfen (1969). Dieses Thema inszeniert er auch in Fotoserien und Installationen sowie Performances ("Blut für Helnwein", 1972). Nach 1985 kombiniert er großformatige Fotos mit abstrakt-gestischer Malerei ("Der Beweis", 1986). In Helnweins Kunstauffassung offenbart sich ein obsessiver Realismus, der die verdrängte, tabuisierte »Nachtseite« der menschlichen Zivilisation in packenden Metaphern veranschaulicht.

February 1999 - on tour till 2001 started at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco catalogue: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, ISBN 0-8109-4358-1