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30 - 40% of all landmine victims are children under 15. . Los Angeles, Wednesday, December 3, 2003 His excellency Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General attended a Roots of peace (RoP) luncheon hosted by Diane Disney Miller in the Founders Room of the newly opened Walt Disney Concert Hall to adress the issue of landmines.

Austro-Präsenz: Nur wenige gute Freunde. Nachdem Arnie einen "Politiker-Überfall" des offiziellen Österreich verhindert hatte, schart er nur wenige österreichische Freunde um sich: den väterlichen Freund Alfred Gerstl etwa, 80, der den 17-jährigen Arnold zum Bodybuilding ermutigt hatte, - Kultmaler Gottfried Helnwein und Exslalomläufer Klaus Heidegger. Das offizielle Österreich vertrat Generalkonsul Peter Launsky-Tiefenthal, eingeklemmt in eine Kollegenschar aus Korea, Mexiko, China und Chile.

Gregor Seyffert is without a doubt one of the most interesting and expressive dancers of his generation.

On Sunday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. the Museum of Tolerance commemorated the 65th anniversary of the infamous 1938 Nazi “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) pogrom. The Wiesenthal Center's observance of the 65th anniversary of "Kristallnacht" was highlighted by the presentation of the work of Gottfried Helnwein and the screening of "Ninth November Night," a documentary about the artist's commitment to remind the world of the Holocaust.

In fact, his work is insistently open-ended. Like Goya's Disasters of War, his art queries time and again, "How can this have happened?" Sometimes viewers reply, assaulting pictures of innocent children, worshipping those of a murderous dictator. Yet such reactions can only bring us to inquire again, louder and with greater urgency, "How can this have happened?" At last we recognize that Helnwein asks questions not in order to solicit answers - hate has no reason - but rather in order that we might begin to pose our own.

On Sunday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. the Museum of Tolerance commemorates the 65th anniversary of the infamous 1938 Nazi “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) program which targeted 1,000 synagogues in Germany and Austria and marked the beginning of the end of European Jewry. The commemoration will be highlighted by the screening of a documentary by renowned Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, 9th November Night, who has committed himself and his art to reminding the world of the Holocaust. The documentary is based upon his 1988 exhibit of seventeen children’s portraits that were displayed in commemoration of Kristallnacht in Cologne, Germany. Just days into the exhibit, these portraits were vandalized.. “The fury with which the neo-nazis reacted to these portraits is understandable inasmuch as it is the very same fury with which they have for years been fighting against The Diary of Anne Frank,” said famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. “The murder of children rouses abhorrence and conflict in every human, whether they are motivated by ideology or insanity. The urge to destroy has survived; the portraits bear witness to its rage.”

* Gottfried Helnwein, artist, born in Vienna, 1948 * Theodor Herzl "founder" of Israel, lived most of his life in Austria * Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933-1945, born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn

"Well, the world is a haunted house, and Helnwein at times is our tour guide through it. I think in anything that is really relevant and emotional art, there is some kind of a mirror that people experience. I don't think that you can recognize a feeling from something that you look at unless it's part of yourself, and so when someone is willing to take on the sadness, the irony, the ugliness and the beauty in the kind of way that Gottfried Helnwein does. Not all of Gottfried's work is on a canvas. A lot of it is the way he's approached life. And it doesn't take someone knowing him to know that. You take one look at the paintings and you say "this guy has been around." You can't sit in a closet - and create this. This level of work is earned." Sean Penn

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Installation "Modern Sleep", 2003, digital print on vinyl, 20 by 60 feet in front of the Barker Hangar at the Los Angeles Art Show 2003, 3021 Airport Avenue at Santa Monica Airport.

Helnwein’s 20-by-60 foot outdoor installation “Modern Sleep 2003”, as well as photographs from his collaboration with Marilyn Manson, are included in the show, which opens with this evening’s gala and is open to the general public Friday through Sunday at Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar. “Modern Sleep 2003” (digital print) is the latest in a series dating back to the 1980s and reflects Helnwein’s use of children in questioning the human condition. It includes two images of a girl. In one, her skin is pale white, and she is dressed in black. In the other, she is black, dressed in white. In both images, her expression is death-like. “They have open eyes, so modern sleep doesn’t mean they are just sleeping,” says Helnwein. “It might mean something else.”

Arnold war schon sehr früh mit Andy Warhol befreundet, zu einem Zeitpunkt wo beide noch unbekannt waren. Aber er hatte sofort Gefallen an dem blassen, schmächtigen, weissblonden Sonderling gefunden, der oft stundenlang in Trainingshallen und Umkleidräumen verbrachte und fasziniert die verschwitzten Kolosse bei ihren diversen Tätigkeiten betrachtete. Die Inspiration war offensichtlich gegenseitig, denn Arnold beschloss eines Tages, sein Bodybuilding zur Kunst zu erklären. Er wandte sich also an den Chief-Curator des angesehenen Whitney-Museums in New York und überzeugte ihn davon, dass Bodybuilding eigentlich Bildhauerei im klassischen Sinn sei, nur mit dem eigenen Körper als dem zu bearbeitenden Material. Er hat dann mit zwei anderen Kollegen tatsächlich vor staunenden Kunstfreunden, Kuratoren und Trustees des Museums eine Performance inszeniert, die die illustre Runde lange nicht vergessen sollte.

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Helnwein: "I think art always reflects the society and the time the artist lives in; it always tells you something about the condition of the culture. This is the age of materialism and profit, accompanied by its favorite all-eating pet – the entertainment industry. Therefore in order not to sink into oblivion, in a desperate struggle to be heard and seen, many artists and curators try to compete with this multi-media-entertainment-Godzilla, trying to be just as loud and cheap and stupid. That’s why 70% to 80% of all the contemporary art in our museums is crap. It’s true though that each time has its own aesthetic values and if you want to reach the people of today you have to develop an artistic language that they can understand. And that’s what I try to do – my audience is the great love-affair of my life. I am obsessed with my public, and all I want to do with my art is touch them and move them and to hold them tight – and sometimes I want to kick their ass. That is all I care about. But I also listen to them and take them and their responses serious, because they and other artists are the only ones that ever taught me anything."

Putting Holes into Happiness, Kneel down humble men and become the height of our children. Let your heart crawl into your knee and realize that all knowledge lives through imagination. This is the nursery business, always get a photocopy. Our cultures may continue to disintegrate but we just rebuild with abusement parks, filming the process and replaying it as situation comedy. We wear ribbons, hold hands, celebrate and concentrate on camps that train our kindergartens to shout out "star-spangled" banter. We will medicate the lunacy of "degenerate" art with heavy doses of old-fashioned (original recipe) family virtues. "Let's make sure all of these offensive forms of entertainment are shown publicly, and burned immediately as a warning to us all!"

"Meine Arbeit hat immer polarisiert. Ich habe immer Leute gehabt, die begeistert und fasziniert waren und ich habe immer Leute gehabt, die mich gehasst haben. Als ich noch in Wien war und ein Kritiker, der ein Leben lang eine Menge schlechter Bilder ohne Probleme ausgehalten hat, bei mir aber wirklich ausgerastet ist, Schaum vor dem Mund hatte, und fast einen Herzinfarkt gekriegt hat, dachte ich mir: Siehst du, irgendeine Intensität muss dein Werk haben. Bei meiner ersten Ausstellung im Wiener Künstlerhaus sind meine Bilder sogar mit Klebern überpickt worden auf denen “Entartete Kunst” stand.

An evening of top DJs spinning and bands rocking curated by James Healy. Helnwein-exhibition new works. (9 -10pm). Studio Helnwein.

Wenn Sie einem Blinden Ihre Bilder beschreiben müssten – dann wie? O mein Gott. Mit so einer Frage fangen wir an? Keine Ahnung, was ich da sagen würde. Die Frage stellt sich doch nie. Ich würde überhaupt niemandem meine Bilder erklären, weder einem Blinden noch einem Sehendem.

LOS ANGELES - Lou Reed took a walk on the wild side, down to Hollywood's RockWalk, where he placed his handprints and signature outside the Guitar Center music store on Sunset Boulevard.

"This album is about expression. The imagination and personality of the individual cannot be trapped by small minds or defined by any one person. The genious of arts finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That is who we are." Marilyn Manson has collaborated with Gottfried helnwein for the album's artwork which is part of a greater series that will be published in a book and exhibited in museums across the world.

Marilyn Manson takes his inspiration from the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, the grotesque of Vaudeville to the height of cabaret decadence and so-called "degenerate" art in Weimar Berlin before its deconstruction.

SPIEGEL: Helnwein gilt wie Sie als Provokateur des Kulturbetriebes - haben sich da zwei verwandte Seelen getroffen? Manson: Ein Künstler, der nicht provoziert, wird unsichtbar. Kunst die keine starken Reaktionen auslöst, hat keinen Wert. Helnwein hat das verinnerlicht und entspricht damit genau dem Kern meiner Musik. Unsere Zusammenarbeit erschöpft sich nicht darin, dass ein Künstler einem Musiker ein Cover für sein Album malt. Wir schaffen zusammen Kunst, die unseren Gemütszustand wiedergibt. SPIEGEL: Helnwein sagt, Sie seien ähnlich einsam wie er. Manson: Ganz bestimmt. Es ist übrigens nicht nur schön, sondern auch befremdlich, jemanden zu finden, der tatsächlich das Gleiche liebt wie man selbst. Ich bin gewohnt für meine Ideen verurteilt zu werden - und plötzlich ist da jemand, der mich auf Anhieb versteht. Ich war nie ein geselliger Mensch. Das ist einer der Gründe, warum Leute wie ich Entertainer werden - weil sie anders nicht kommunizieren können.

"High above Marlene Dietrich Blvd. in the city of Berlin, the sun smoldered below the concrete gutter sky like a cigarette burn in a stained bedsheet. We set forth to the Dome of Berlin at dusk and I felt like I was in my own painting, "The Death of Art." Helnwein and I created a living installation with two disabled nude women as families stopped their picnics to stare. Of course we documented this for future viewing. But it didn't begin there... "Determined, I headed for the birthplace of Expressionism, humming "The Alabama Song," by Kurt Weill. It was time for The Grotesk Burlesk and dozens of mice scurried from the Kinderfeld. Their political organs had to be removed and we set them in formation, creating a metaphorical "question mark." Marilyn Manson

"The good news for Manson's fans and his accountants alike is 'The Golden Age of Grotesque' may well be his best album yet." [posted 4/25/2003 U.S.A.] Manson reveals Album Cover Artwork! posted: 2003-04-04

The Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein is well aware of the discomfort the public feels when confronted with images of children not represented as innocents but to whom a powerful sexual identity (and an awareness) is designated. In his work, and especially his paper drawings, he has created some of the most powerful and disturbing representations of abused childhood in history of art. We are not talking about the form of abuse commonly described in the penal code. By altering or removing the inbred pulsation that spurs us to stubbornly refuse or deny what we do not recognise, the manipulations and interferences (The Intrusion) adults perform on the social body of childhood are denounced.

D'autres photos sont visibles sur le site www.helnwein.com.

If you are already familiar with Gottfried Helnwein then you proably knew more than I do about art, and I apologize on behalf of the commercially saturated masses. Helnwein is a ridiculously talented artist. That is basically all you need to know. Anything you could imagine art doing for you, or to you, any feeling it might instill in you or emotion it might remove from you, he captures, then cripples, reformats, and pastes into the cleft pallet of a 20-foot-tall gray-scale rendition of a deformed fetus soaking in formaldehyde. The essence of realism and ability that every art major ever clamored to grasp, he manages to expel onto canvas with apparent ease. He produces paintings, and photographs that you can't help but wish you could recreate with the same vision, depth, and intrigue. His art is without gimmick and his persona is without persona. Helnwein is simply someone who enjoys creating, and has been doing a pretty damn good job at it for 35 years.

"Kleines Helnwein" is a play written and directedby the Argentinian poet Rodrigo M. Malmsten. Inspired and based on the early paintings of Gottfried Helnwein First performance: Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires, 2000 . Autor: Rodrigo M. Malmsten Actuan: Martín Von Tumpling, Belén Blanco Iluminación: Alejandro Le Roux Música: Mariano Durand, Marcelo Vignolo Producción: Julieta Almada Dirección: Rodrigo M. Malmsten Esta obra formó parte del evento: III Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires

We have seen something of the 'look' created via Manson's collaboration with artist Gottfried Helnwein - While the Album remains a sealed box in musical terms, Manson will wax lyrical about the inspirations and influences that helped shape it. There are the people - as well as Calloway, he nods to Oscar Wilde and the loose collective of radical artists and agents provocateurs - collaborator Helnwein among them - who were dubbed the Viennese Actionists. " The Grotesque Burlesque takes what we've done in the past and brings it to a completely different level. This is making everyone a part of your creation. It's realising that art is more than music, more than people listen to it, more than people who play it - it is the combination of all that. Gottfried Helnwein is someone who knows how to artfully provoke. He would take some of his creations and he'd bring them out into the streets. It became an instance where people wouldn't know what was the show and what wasn't the show. That's such a beautiful thing. It's like being in the playground - you're not really sure who's on what team, or what the real objective is.

1987 - Helnwein-Performance at tank-camp Kopal of the Austrian Army

We have INDEED just finished mixing the final song for the album and have scheduled the GROTESK BURLESK all across the world. The artwork and much more of my collaboration with Gottfried Helnwein is also complete. The details of our AKTION and the sounds that accompany it will all be revealed quite soon.

William Friedkin - the director of The Exorcist, perhaps the most famous horror film of all time, and The French Connection, one of the best films of the 1970s - visited the studio of Gottfried Helnwein.

Poems and novels, films and photographs, paintings and performances, monuments and memorials, even comics are the cultural forms that engage us with catastrophic and traumatic history. Through these eyes we have come to know events which defy the possibility of representation. We have come to bear witness to history.

Art Direction: Gottfried Helnwein Editing and primary director of photography: Benjamin at the Barbarian Group Second camera: Charles Koutris Location: studio Helnwein, Los Angeles

...To this day, there is still controversy over when to operate on these fixed nasal deformities acquired during midfacial growth. The painting by Helnwein, entitled "Mean Child", depicts a terrified child who has just undergone a reconstructive operation to form a new nose from a frontal flap (Fig. 46). Blood drips from the tubes projecting from the reconstructed nose. A purulent scrap of granulation is seen in the left medial canthus, while a fresh scar from which the sutures have just been removed stretches from the angle of the mouth to the left ear. The flowered wallpaper in the background contains these words: disobedience allowed, taking pleasure in punishments, unchaste things, and other words which are connected with lines to the pathological alterations in the face. Do these harken back to the mediaeval belief that sickness is a punishment for greater or lesser human failings? Artists: George Grosz, Gottfried Helnwein, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hogarth, Otto Dix, Velásques, Hans Holbein the Younger, Bernard van Orley, Vrubel, Jacob Jordaens, Juan Carreno de Miranda, George Catlin, Jan Provoost, Honoré Daumier , Heinrich Zille, Wilhelm Busch, , Gaetano Guilio Zumbo, Manfred Deix, Simone Martini, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, Marc Chagall, Chicotot, Laurence Sterne, Utamaro, Ferdinand Bol, Master of the Wenemaer Triptych, Liberale da Verona, Jules Lenepveu, Alexandrowitsch Wssjewoloshskij, and Ancient Egypt-, Phoenician-, Roman-, Greek- and Mayan -artists.

Marilyn Manson: About a year ago, I hooked up with Gottfried Helnwein, and he and I have been working together on various projects that, again, cross the boundaries between photography, painting, film, and installation. It's part of what I'm going to unleash and put into effect as the next couple of months unfold. It's stuff that people dont get to see anymore; it's stuff that happened in the '30s, '40s, '50s and even the '60s with the Panic Movement and Action. Gottfried really pushes the envelope, not just for shock value but for the betterment of art, to make people want to have style because they like it, not because they want to impress other people, to want to be creative because it feeds them and it makes them exist.

group show Artists support Nazareth House in Cape Town South Africa. Nazareth House is a world respected organisation dedicated to the stable and secure care of children in need. The Sisters of Nazareth were asked to care for one HIV baby in 1992 and since then, in their centre and their township outreach programmes, they have looked after more than 250 HIV infected babies and children.

Westernhagen, Germany's biggest Rock'n'Roll musician

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.

Gottfried Helnwein, Patrick Morrison, Bryten Goss and Miguel Arguello.

It's funny how blisteringly incorrect Page Six is in their quest for sensational gossip. They miss the big story when they stoop so low. The image in question isn't a shot from a deleted scene in the movie, and was never before censors, but a photograph taken by the brilliant Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein. It's reason enough to buy the CD, and reason entirely that WalMart won't carry the CD.

Shannyn Sossamon und Theresa Wayman

Helnwein by Mic Moroney ...This unease with, and yet celebration of German-language cutlure continues to inform Helnwein's work, not least in this large piece, "The Silent Glow of the Avant Garde" Helnwein's painting - both cheekily and totally in homage - appropriates the great paintings, "The Polar Sea" (1824) by the leading German Romantic landscape artist Casper David Friedrich. Helnwein here re-renders the painting in a gloomy, cinematic blue-black duochrome, and hugely magnifies it from its original scale (about 1 metre by 1 metre 30), although the foundered ship still seems dwarfed and pulverised by the splintering ice sheets. It remains a fine example of that particularly Germanic celebration of heroic humanity dashing itself against the majestic cruelty of nature. Helnwein, in his wry title and borrowing of the image, is suggesting an uncomfortable paradigm behind Friedrich's painting - a perpetual sense of momentous revolution within nature, raw humanity and indeed artistic culture. These ideas pervaded Friedrich's work, as well as that of composer Richard Wagner and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - all of whose works were later so mistakenly absorbed into the "superhuman" aesthetic of Nazi ideaology and doctrine...

PRESENT: A crowd described as groovy and Hollywoodish -including actor/skateboarder Jason Lee - turned up Thursday for the opening of Austrian-born L.A.-and-Ireland resident Gottfried Helnwein's show at Modernism in San Francisco. Sean Penn was said to have bought three paintings.

THE FRENCH SAY, "CONDEMNANT IL FAIT Q'UOD": "WE CONDEMN WHAT WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND." BUT THAT STOPS RIGHT HERE. LAY YOUR OPINIONS OF THE MAN TO REST UNTIL AFTER YOU'VE READ THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION BETWEEN CYRIL HELNWEIN AND MARILYN MANSON - Manson: Of course, for everybody who reads this – they won’t know that our meeting has been very important to my career, because you introduced me to your father (Gottfried Helnwein) and we'’ve gone and will go on to do lots of great stuff together. So that’s the behind-the-scenes story for everybody who’'s going to read this..

A: Welche Maler und bildenden Künstler haben dich am meisten beeinflusst? Manson: Egon Schiele, Gottfried Helnwein, Luis Buñuel, Dalí, [Hieronymus] Bosch, Warhol, Mark Ryden, Fellini. Und so weiter... A: Wie weit sind die Studioarbeiten an dem neuen Album (The Golden Age of Grotesque) fortgeschritten? Sind die Aufnahmen abgeschlossen? Manson: Ja, jetzt geht es in den Mix. A: Hast du Interesse an der Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Künstlern (abgesehen von Tim Skold) an neuen Projekten? Manson: Vielleicht mit Felix Da House Kat. D12 versuchen schon länger mit mir was zu machen. Ich bin aber zur Zeit ganz mit Helnwein und einigen damit verbundenen Projekten beschäftigt. Es kommt wirklich auf die Umstände an. Ich mag es nicht Musik außerhalb der Band zu machen. Das wird einfach zu unkoordiniert.

PETER GABRIEL TEAMS UP WITH SEAN PENN FOR CONTROVERSIAL NEW VIDEO. VIDEO BANNED FOR BROADCAST BEFORE 9PM Exclusive video captures of this video on page 2 of this feature, please note, they are not suitable for those who are easily offended, or minors! Famous for his groundbreaking and multi-award winning videos, PETER GABRIEL has teamed up with actor/director SEAN PENN to create a controversial new video for his forthcoming single, 'The Barry Williams Show' which is released on 9th September. Both the single and the video have already been

Antje Vollmer, vice-speaker of German parliament, spends her vacation at the home of Gottfried Helnwein and his family in Ireland where she meets with artists, writers, actors, musicians and other people active in the fields of culture. For the past 3 years, every summer, Gottfried Helnwein is inviting creative people from all over the world to stay at his home in Ireland.

When Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein opened a show of his paintings recently, celebrities crowded his downtown studio. Leonardo DiCaprio rubbed Elbows with Marilyn Manson. Beck chatted with Kevin Smith. Mena Suvari stopped for a photo op, and Sean Penn lent his cool. For a recent transplant, Helnwein attracted much Hollywood.

Marilyn Manson found himself in hospital this week, the victim of stress and exhaustion in the rush to get his next record out. He tells fans at his official website "This week was strenuous and I landed myself in the hospital as a result of “going too far” in the creation process. I am fine now and glad to be back in the studio.

That Mouse could'nt be in better hands.

So tonight I went to Gottfried Helnwein's show at his studio in downtown L.A. It was sponsored by the Jason Lee Foundation for the Arts (I'm still trying to figure that one out) and just about everyone was there. I turn to the right -- Sean Penn. I turn to the left -- Beck. Arnold is dropping off a gift. Kevin Smith is wandering around in big, baggy shorts and looking at Gottfried's larger works. Leo looks like a cat. Mena Suvari is upset about the flourescent lighting

Guests: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marilyn Manson, Sean Penn, Beck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, Mena Suvari, Hans Zimmer, Giovanni Ribisi, Carla Azar, Marissa Ribisi, Roger Avary, Greg Shapiro, Bryten Goss, Dita Von Teese, Danny Masterson, Cobi Jones, Karen Black, Shannyn Sossamon, Peter and Michelle Wolf , Julia Migenes, Patrick Morrison, Henning Lohner and others

Marilyn Manson and painter Gottfried Helnwein have joined forces to collaborate on a series of creations that are aimed at placing art on the edge, where it belongs. In the tradition of AKTION, the pair intend to have a powerful effect on the bland world of entertainment. Helnwein's use of taboo subject matter has gained him respect and notoriety worldwide. Museums in NYC, Berlin, Vienna and Zurich are just a few locations where his challenging images have left controversy in their wake. He has worked with Marlena Dietrich and was chosen by Time Magazine to paint JFK on the 20th anniversary of his assassination. The Simon Wiesenthal Foundation supported his work in Europe and here in Los Angeles, the Museum of Tolerance will be displaying a series of portraits that were vandalized by neo-fascists who labeled them "degenerate art." His fight for expression and stance against oppression are reasons why Manson chose him as an artistic partner. Check the journal for candid pics and more.

Today I started to work with legendary painter/artist Gottfried Helnwein. Thanks to Cyril, his son, we met some time ago and are now collaborating. Today: Lighting, camera tests, juggling. I am too exhausted to reveal the details of our work but it is multi-media-prop chaos that I know will please many and enrage more. I am honored to work with him...and he is having a gallery exhibit this Thursday in LA that I will be attending. As I promised, here are a couple of behind-the-scenes shots taken by Matt N., my art assistant. These are not representative of Helnwein’s work as he is primarily a painter. (AMAZING PAINTER).

“This is a very serious and somewhat disturbing exhibition,” said Mayor Meralee Goldman, who is supportive of the exhibit and was first approached by the Austrian artist. “There is an important component of education to go along with this exhibit,” Human Relations Director Mary O’Gorman said. “This is a Holocaust Memorial, and the intent at times is to overwhelm.” The exhibit is described as “an art event to focus the conscience of the viewer and, through media exposure, the conscience of the widest possible public” by the artist’s draft proposal. “An art installation a city block long...will rise into public view to cry out against not only one of history’s most tragic and horrific episodes of prejudice, but also against the current resurgence of the endangerment of children through intolerance around the world.”

2002/06/01 I'm escorting Shannyn Sossamon to Gottfried Helnwein's L.A. studio tonight for a photo session. Gottfried is a genius, and possibly my favorite living artist -- so I'm thrilled for Shannyn to be shooting with him. Afterward, I'm taking her to the airport. She's flying out of town to shoot a short film (yes, you too can have Shannyn in your film -- she's that cool!).

cover: "Head of a Child 4" inside: "Head of a Child 5" 2000, oil and acrylic on canvas, and "Ninth of November Night", 1988, installation at the Museum Ludwig, cologne

Franz Morak, Austrian Secretary of State for the Arts and Media, and Mr Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Consul General of Austria, visited Helnwein's studio in Downtown Los Angeles and had Breakfast there. Together then, they walked to the nearby Los Angeles Geffen Museum of Contemporary Art to meet with curators, who gave them a tour of the museum.

Im Rahmen seines Los Angeles Aufenthaltes wird Morak auch mit dem Schauspieler Dennis Hopper sowie mit Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Wolf und Gottfried Helnwein zusammentreffen.

De Rodrigo M. Malmsten Kleines Helnwein, está inspirada en la estética de Gottfried Helnwein, artista plástico contemporáneo. La dura e irónica temática de su obra denuncia las consecuencias de toda una sociedad signada por la oscuridad y la hipocresía; la sociedad del propio G. Helnwein (Austria), así como las de tantas otras.

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Gottfried Helnwein, who is quite possibly my favorite living artist, attended my screening last night - ... Los Angeles, March, 29, 2002

`The Portrait Obscured,'' the current exhibit at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, where 19 artists have all but forgone the portrait entirely in their pursuit of it. The exhibit's signature pieces are two paintings by the Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein. A bit of perceptual sleight of hand, two seemingly blue-black canvases on close inspection reveal portraits of John Lennon and Bruce Lee. Portraits obscured, to be sure, and perhaps a meditation on how unknowable are the famous by their famous faces.

Gottfried Helnwein, John Lennon, 1994 oil and acrylic on canvas, courtesy Modernism, San Francisco

feb 17th, 2002, 6:29pm: I was introduced to this artist a couple of years ago by a friend. He's not a new artist on the European or World scene by any means, but anyone who enjoys the more disturbing, symbolic and deranged David Lynch films (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive) should check him out.

A castle in Tipperary is the setting for this most unlikely of squires. Politics, paint and provocation are the life blood of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein and his work.