ARTISTHelnwein

Katalog zur Ausstellung: Superstars: Von Warhol bis Madonna (4.11.2005 - 19.2.2006) - eine Kooperation zwischen Kunsthalle Wien und Kunstforum Wien.

Die Befreiung des melancholischen Bewusstseins durch den Tod bietet keine philosophische Perspektive mehr. Es ist ihm ohnedies schon anheim gefallen. Stattdessen wird der Suizid in einer Performance masochistischer Selbstverstümmelung kultisch sublimiert. In einer fotografischen Inszenierung Gottfried Helnweins erhebt sich der Künstler, fäulnisschwarz und monumental wie das Mahnmal einer letzen Einsicht: “So ist Verzweiflung, diese Krankheit im Selbst, die Krankheit zum Tode. Der verzweifelte ist todkrank. Der Tod ist nicht das letzte der Krankheit, aber der Tod ist in einem fort das Letzte. Von dieser Krankheit erlöst zu werden durch den Tod ist eine Unmöglichkeit, denn die Krankheit und deren Qual und der Tod ist gerade, nicht sterben zu können.” So ist die Geschichte der Moderne nicht zuletzt auch eine Erfolgsgeschichte der Melancholie und des Eindringens ihres schwarzen Spuks in die letzten Paradiese des Seins- und Weltvertrauens.

Ausstellungskatalog: Herausgegeben von Ingried Brugger und Florian Steininger. Mit Beiträgen von Florian Steininger. 80 Seiten und 45

erschienen Oktober 2005 476 Seiten, 250 Abb., Paperback

This ultimate, full colour printed and silver-embossed boxset contains almost the complete regular works by Pankow. 4 albums, produced by Adrian Sherwood, Rico Conning, Paul Kendall and more. All 4 albums come in specially re-designed digipaks with the original controversial artworks by H.R.Giger and Helnwein.

Type of Document - Dissertation Degree - Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Das Ausstellungprojekt präsentiert auf besonders vielfältige Art die grenzüberschreitenden Aktivitäten, die im Bereich von Kunst, Musik, Literatur und Film seit den 60er Jahren stattfinden. Das Erleben der Sound Art wird über die zentrale Ausstellung "Vinyl – Records and Covers by Artists" hinaus mit 5 Ausstellungsmodulen intensiviert: Konzerte, ein Radioprogramm, eine internationale Tagung, ein Kunstmarkt zur Sound Art sowie eine Filmwoche machen die Klangwelt der bildenden Künstler hörbar und erfahrbar. Andy Warhol, Ernst Jandl, Yves Klein, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Hamilton, Keith Haring, Gottfried Helnwein, Laurie Anderson, Sol LeWitt, Raymond Pettibon.

Photography and reality are inextricably linked but, whether one is being photographed, making a photograph, or looking at a photograph, photography is an act of the imagination. In nine original essays, art historians and cultural theorists break with photographic tradition to explore the crucial role of the imagination in photography from nineteenth-century studio portraiture to twenty-first-century digital innovations.

Toda la obra de Helnwein presenta originalidad. Esta es una de las características que hacen que lo podamos definir como verdadero artista; no sólo porque se ha podido apoderar de la técnica a tal punto que pareciera que le pertenece, sino porque además se ha propuesto descubrir y experimentar con distintos soportes y técnicas nuevas. En cada pieza podemos ver la reflexión que plantea sobre lo humano visto por medio del dolor y el sufrimiento; intentando hablar por medio de lo visual lo que los escritores y filósofos plantearon sobre lo utópica que es la sociedad; desmitifica los valores religiosos y cuestiona la moral.

"For me, art is a way to fight back against everything I've experienced: I wanted to respond, but I didn't know how to articulate it. But I could paint it. That medium opened all doors. Certain images can reach so deeply into people's souls. "And I feel also like a witness to my times - that's my duty, my responsibility." One role of art, he believes, is to "force people to look at things they would rather not look at," an impulse he sees in Goya and Shakespeare.

Born in Vienna in 1948, Gottfried Helnwein has developed a very powerful and idiosyncratic visual vocabulary reflected in his masterful use of multiple media (painting, drawing, photography, performance, and stage design). Helnwein addresses a broad range of social and political issues, resulting in challenging and provocative artworks. Although at times very disturbing, these works are consistently moving, and seek spiritual beauty often approaching the transcendental.

The thing you should know about this "Rosenkavalier" is that it is terrific. Richard Strauss' opera sounds great and looks sensational. It is excellently sung, sumptuously conducted by Kent Nagano and, thanks to Gottfried Helnwein, wondrously strange. Helnwein — the Austrian artist (painter, photographer, performance artist, filmmaker) who has a studio in downtown L.A. — is known for everything from Marilyn Manson videos to Holocaust installations. He is responsible for the sets, costumes and that ad (which, by the way, looks like an image from a recent staging of a Schumann oratorio that Helnwein designed in Düsseldorf). Helnwein's vision of "Rosenkavalier" is monochromatic and a riot of color. It is oddly traditional yet seriously odd. It is updated but couldn't be more 18th century. And none of those opposites contradicts.

Parte de la importante colección Essl llega al Museo de Arte Moderno para exhibir piezas de 18 artistas austriacos y 12 artistas internacionales, en reciprocidad por la muestra Modernismo mexicano presentada en el museo privado Essl Kunstsammlung en Viena. El accionismo vienés (Günter Brus y Hermann Nitsch); Arnulf Rainer y Antoni Tápies; La pintura vive (Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, Siegfried Anzinger, Hubert Scheibl, Herbert Brandl, Martin Kippenberger, Franz West), y Aspectos de la figura (Alex Katz, Katrin Plavcak, Muntean/Rosenblum, Jim Dine, Gottfried Helnwein, Maria Lassnig.

The creator of the alluring image is artist Gottfried Helnwein, who transfers the power and pull of his photographic work (check out www.helnwein.com to get a taste of some of the heaviest, most uncompromising visuals you will see in several lifetimes) to the sets and costumes of Der Rosenkavalier. Helnwein's poster concept cuts through the traditional coyness and goes straight for the nugget of truth that no doubt had Lesbian and Gay audiences nudging and winking for the past century. With the bold-but-tender image of two gently bussing females, Helnwein gives the casual observer "something to think about." Oh, yes!

Catalogue cover: Gottfried Helnwein, Head of a Child 5, 1998

One man show Exhibition catalogue

Volume 1 - Modern Volume 2 - Contempoprary

Group show, catalogue This is a selection of dynamic works from the collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, demonstrating their commitment to social and political issues and artists of color. Although their collecting focuses on the contemporary, both well-known and emerging artists, selected historic pieces show the breadth of their interest and the roots of socially conscious work in the early 20th century.

Exhibition, Episcopal Seminary, Bruges

Es geht dabei nicht um eine Fotodokumentation, sondern um einen mediatisierten Aktionismus, der jedweden Körpernaturalismus verweigert. Fotografische Körperinszenierungen, etwa im Hinblick auf Verletzung, Selbstdestruktion oder Gewalt wie bei Gottfried Helnwein, ironisierende Performances der ...

The father role is played with gravity by Christopher Lee who hooks his candy-deprived child up to elaborate Helnwein-style dental monstrosities. ...

... und der österreichische Künstler Gottfried Helnwein verfolgte in seiner Inszenierung von Strawinskys The Rake's Progress das Eindringen des Horrors in den Alltag ebenso unerbittlich, wie er dies in seinen photorealistischen Bildern ...

Working with renowned Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, the new look encompassed mock Nazi regalia and an overall feel of camp and cinematic menace. The album, The Golden Age Of Grotesque (2003) - featuring ...

...Das Finale bilden der "gesunde Schweizer Volkszorn", 18 Jahre Haftstrafe und eine gesundheitlich zerstörte Ehefrau. Viel später wird Jeanmaire seine Rehabilitation bewirken. Aber sie rettet ihn nicht davor, zum Symbol der verquasten Schweizer Verhältnisse und Volksseele zu mutieren. Der österreichische Kultkünstler Gottfried Helnwein stellt 1992 ein Plakat her, das Jeanmaire nackt zeigt - bekleidet nur mit seinem Generalskäppi. So, wie er am Tag seiner Verhaftung vor den Bundespolizisten, die ihn auch verhörten, stand. Jeanmaire, dem die Uniform, das Militär alles war.

Österreichische Künstler wie Gottfried Helnwein, Eduard Angeli, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Bruno Gironcoli, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Afred Kubin, Gustav Klimt, Ernst Fuchs, Egon Schiele und viele mehr. Internationale Künstler wie Giorgio De Chirico, Paul Delvaux, Alberto Giacometti, Keith Haring, Allen Jones, Richard Lindner, Joan Miró, Niki de Saint Phalle, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern und Jean Tinguely. Arbeiten auf Papier – Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Mischtechniken - aus der umfangreichen Graphischen Sammlung Infeld sollen erstmals in einer eigenen Ausstellung ihre gebührende Aufmerksamkeit erfahren.

Gottfried Helnwein przedsatwiający fotografie Andiego Worhola, Michaela Jacksona, interesował się także pokazywaniem aktów przemocy i jej odbiorem przez obojętne audytorium jak w "Ostatniej wieczerzy", należał w Wiedniu do grupy, która w latach 60-tych eksplorowała temat przemocy w sztuce, działając też na polu performance.

* 1948; schockierender Hyperrealismus; Verbindung von Malerei und Fotografie.

Seminararbeit

"... Iar marele volum a apărut în 2003, are o fotografie de Gottfried Helnwein pe copertă (aşa cum îmi doresc să aibă toate cărţile pe care o să le scriu ..."

Dal momento che nel percorso di Floria Sigismondi l’immagine si presta a molteplici ordini e procedure artistiche differenti, è a partire dai suoi lavori video che si è tentato di rintracciare da un lato la componente pittorica, attraverso alcuni riferimenti opportuni, come Francis Bacon e Gottfried Helnwein, dall’altro quella fotografica, per osservare quanto questi linguaggi abbiano evidentemente plasmato il suo modo di vedere e percepire la realtà, forgiato il suo approccio all’immagine, e quanto essi rivendichino la propria presenza nel processo di ideazione dell’immagine stessa.

...Gottfried Helnwein, Nick Kosciuk. Alexander Klingspor and Ron Hicks. "A lot of the stuff is a little bit dark or strange, so some people say, ...

Auch der 1948 in Wien geborene Maler Gottfried Helnwein äußerte noch 2004: Für mich ist die Kunst, meine Malerei, die einzige Möglichkeit überhaupt, auf diese Welt zu reagieren. Kunst ist für mich wie eine Waffe, mit der ich zurückschlagen kann.

Magisterarbeit

Der Schrei im Selbstbildnis als Gesellschaftskritik - Wohl kein autoporträtatives Schaffen ist in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts derart mit einer expressiven Gesellschaftskritik, mit einer Anklage verbunden, wie das von Gottfried Helnwein. Der Künstler macht sich um einer schonungslosen Aussage willen zum schreienden, zum stellvertretend leidenden Objekt seiner Bilder: „Ich will mit meinen Bildern und Aktionen die Menschen aus ihrer Eingefrorenheit lösen, wenn auch nur eine Sekunde lang, will sie verunsichern und zu spontanen Reaktionen hinreißen. Verunsichern, aber nicht destruktiv. Die logische Denkfähigkeit soll zugunsten totaler Selbstöffnung kurz trocken gelegt werden“, stellte der österreichische Maler, Grafiker und Aktionskünstler Gottfried Helnwein zur Intention seines Werkes fest.

"...When I look at a work of Art I ask myself: does it challenge me, does it touch, move or inspire me? Do I learn something from it, does it startle or amaze me - do I get excited, upset? That is the test any artwork has to pass: can it create an emotional impact on a human being even when he has no education or any information about art? I’ve always had a problem with art that you can only understand if you have a degree in art history, and I have a problem with theories in general. Most of them are bullshit anyway. Most critics and theorists have little respect for artists, and I think the importance of theory in art is totally overrated. Real art is self-evident. Real art is intense, challenging, enchanting, exciting and unsettling; it has a quality and magic that you cannot explain. Like the Blues, a poem of Rimbaud or Rembrandt's late self-portraits. Art is not logic, and if you really want to experience it, your mind and rational thinking will be of little help. Art is something spiritual that you can only experience with your senses, your heart, your soul. Think of Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Mozart, Howling Wolf, Goya, Bukowski or Robert Crumb - do you need to know the theories that some busybodies might attach to their art in order to experience it? Marcel Duchamp said: "The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity." These two poles is all you need.

Helnwein: "...When I look at a work of Art I ask myself: does it challenge me, does it touch, move or inspire me? Do I learn something from it, does it startle or amaze me - do I get excited, upset? That is the test any artwork has to pass: can it create an emotional impact on a human being even when he has no education or any information about art? I’ve always had a problem with art that you can only understand if you have a degree in art history, and I have a problem with theories in general. Most of them are bullshit anyway. Most critics and theorists have little respect for artists, and I think the importance of theory in art is totally overrated. Real art is self-evident. Real art is intense, challenging, enchanting, exciting and unsettling; it has a quality and magic that you cannot explain. Like the Blues, a poem of Rimbaud or Rembrandt's late self-portraits. Art is not logic, and if you really want to experience it, your mind and rational thinking will be of little help. Art is something spiritual that you can only experience with your senses, your heart, your soul. Think of Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Mozart, Howling Wolf, Goya, Marilyn Manson, Bukowski or Robert Crumb - do you need to know the theories that some busybodies might attach to their art in order to experience it? Marcel Duchamp said: "The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity." These two poles is all you need.

exhibition-cataogue ..A clarity of vision in his subject matter was emerging in Helnwein's art that was to stay consistent throughout his career. His subject matter was the human condition. The metaphor for his art, although it included self-portraits, was dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead created the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within.

"Helnwein's meticulous Irish landscapes, which are the cornerstone of this Crawford show, are unashamedly aesthetic: gorgeous confections of pure, delicious spectacle. The typically epic but not inhuman scale imitates the subject matter. The tonal realism will make people go "Wow, are they paintings?" - thanks to the photorealist finish which seems free of the foibles of the human hand. Helnwein works with very small brushes - highlighting and subtly magnifying here, muting colours or creating shadows there; pushing some paintings towards momentary sleights of impressionism; and others towards seamless, burnished hyperreality. The bird's eye view suggests a kind of superhuman vision which can simultaneously take in the entire view with breath-taking clarity, like some bionic eagle." Mic Moroney, from the essay "Out of the Apocalypse into the Sublime - bursting into Irish Landscape: Citizen Helnwein"

Cover: painting "Mouse I" by Gottfried Helnwein