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Barry Friedman, New York and Modernism, San Francisco

The hyper-real piece by painter Gottfried Helnwein entitled "Head of a Child" caught the eye of Jason Handy, 34, of Miami who had to touch it to believe that it was a painting and not a photograph. Art Miami art fair open for prieview for VIP in Midtown on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 in Miami

Aus Österreich grüßt schließlich Gottfried Helnwein mit seiner „Midnight Mickey“ von 2001, die doch etwas gefährlicher zu sein scheint als Warhols Exemplar (Taxe 80.000 bis 120.000 USD).

The Helnweins are cutting a wide swath through Los Angele's various scenes - the kind of creative energy that seems to come naturally. As children of the Austrian-Irish artist Gottfried Helnwein, siblings Mercedes and Ali experienced an unconventional and charmed upbringing. They lived in castles in Germany and Ireland, attended a private arts school in England and accompanied their father on trips to America, where they sold their drawings to hotel guests to buy stuffed animals at the gift shop. These days, Mercedes, 31, and Ali, 29, are drawing on that background in their own artistic endeavors: Mercedes as a novelist and visual artist and Ali as a composer and musician, with an emphasis on classical music. They bring a fresh, somewhat ironic playfulness to their chosen mediums that has attracted a raucous group of young fans not typically associated with traditional galleries or classical music concerts. In this way, they stand at a colorful intersection of L.A.'s literary, pop culture, visual art and music scene. And they are rarely at rest, working on several projects at once and often collaborating with each other on videos or performances.

Friday, October 14 
Sunset Center Studio 105 
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Joseph Beuys, Kevin Clarke, Chuck Close, Anton Corbijn, Gisèle Freund, Gottfried Helnwein, Barbara Klemm, Will McBride, Angelika Platen, Richard Prince, Dennis Stock, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, Sascha Weidner

Il corto contiene infatti tutti i clichè cari all'estetica del “Reverendo” (che ha annunciato il suo lungometraggio Phantasmagoria ormai dal 2004); temi già sviluppati ampiamente negli anni passati da artisti quali Floria Born Villain: Shia LaBeouf regista per Marilyn MansonSigismondi e E. Elias Merhige (i video) e Gottfried Helnwein (il geniale concept per The Golden Age of Grotesque). Quasi inevitabile per un esordiente come LaBeouf uscire dal confronto con le ossa spezzate.

a blue-gray monochrome painting Sometimes museum gives out free admissions on special events.  M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park has a collection on International Contemporary art.  There are two exhibits that caught my attention. The first is Gottfried Helnwein’s Epiphany II.  The painting is 210 cm x 310 cm long. Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish painter, installation and performance artist.

La chimie, explique Djerassi, est un monde de machos. Mais les femmes ont toujours été au cœur de son univers, comme dans ce saisissant tableau du peintre austro-irlandais Gottfried Helnwein, accroché dans son appartement viennois : affleurant tel un hologramme sous la surface presque noire, on devine un visage familier, celui de Simone de Beauvoir.

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."

Through December 11, the museum is presenting “Pop’d From The Panel,” a exploration of how comics and cartoon art have influenced the modern pop-art movement. The nearly 20 artists with works in the exhibit include provocative Mexican-born Enrique Chagoya, modern “street artist” Ron English, and such iconic contemporary figures as Roy Lichtenstein, Gottfried Helnwein, Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, and Christo. There are 26 two- and three-dimensional works in the exhibition, which is in the Downstairs Changing Gallery.

18. Juni, 21:15 Uhr

Warhol, Adams, White, Wegman, Newton, Mapplethorpe, Levinthal und Gottfried Helnwein.

Fertige Bilder auf Knopfdruck - was in Zeiten von Digitalkameras und Fotodrucker das Selbstverständlichste auf der Welt ist, erschien in den 1970er Jahren geradezu revolutionär. Auch viele Künstler, von Andy Warhol über Ansel Adams und Gottfried Helnwein, verfielen dem geradezu magischen Aspekt der Polaroid-Kameras und schufen - mit unterschiedlichsten Konzepten, aber mit demselben Originalmaterial - beeindruckende Werke.

In Europe, Hyperrealist painters included Austrian Gottfried Helnwein (b. 1948). He first used a hyperrealist technique to portray extremes of suffering. His later works tackle the theme of Nazism and the Holocaust, most famously in his "Epiphany" series (1996-98). In "Epiphany I" (Adoration of the Magi) SS officers with a mother and a child represent the Magi and the Virgin Mary and Jesus, with the child being admired as an example of Aryan perfection.

Collectors Contemporary stages up to nine exhibitions and fair participations a year featuring the likes of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Daniel Buren, Gottfried Helnwein and artists like Chris Levine and Russell Young whom it represents exclusively in the region.

The National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, present two shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. The Wheel (image by Gottfried Helnwein) is an unnerving new play by Zinnie Harris (Further than the Furthest Thing), directed by National Theatre of Scotland Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.

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Výstava Já, bezesporu, která se bude v pražské Galerii Rudolfinum konat do 14. srpna, představuje několik ikon současného umění. Stejnojmennou přehlídku připravilo před třemi lety německé Kunstmuseum Wofsburg. K tématu lidské identity mají co říci Američanka Cindy Sherman, Němec Gerhard Richter, Francouz Christian Boltanski i Rakušan Gottfried Helnwein.

In cooperation with Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, this exhibition is exploring themes of human identity - the topic of "self" in the most varied of situations and visual expressions. This international project brings together works from Christian Boltanski, Gottfried Helnwein, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Marlene Dumas, Bruce Nauman and others.

Individually, the paintings of Gottfried Helnwein can strike a viewer as contrived, manipulative and heartless. But put several dozen of them together, as the Crocker Art Museum has done, and they rock, shaking out the quotient of grave common concern in his private obsessions. Helnwein deliberately evokes the disillusioned view of childhood promoted by another Viennese eminence, Sigmund Freud. But he also fingers the global entertainment industry as an infernal influence, using meticulous realism to place oddly irreal figures borrowed from Disney and anime on a common footing with his human subjects. Despite the lyrical passages in his work, Helnwein appears bent on inducing a distaste for images among consumers of them who have lost perspective on their tyrannizing power. His frequent use of nearly cinematic scale makes this shock therapy both unforgettable and hard to endure.

Hier finden sich selbstverständlich große Namen wie Warhol, Adams, White, Wegman, Newton, Mapplethorpe, Levinthal und als einziger Österreicher Gottfried Helnwein. Eine spezielle Rarität sind die 20-mal-24-Zoll-Großformate. Aufträge dafür hatten Konzernchef Land und sein künstlerischer Berater Ansel Adams nur an handverlesene Fotografen vergeben. Sie waren bei der Arbeit mit einem Material, das im freien Handel nicht erhältlich ist und für dessen Verarbeitung weltweit nur ganz wenige Kameras existieren, europaweit vom tschechischen Fotografen Jan Hnizdo betreut und unterstützt worden.

Since he began his career in Vienna in the late 1960s, Gottfried Helnwein has been known for his radical use of the portrait and self-portrait. His photography, paintings, and monumental installations address themes of inhumanity, violence, and the importance of personal expression with stark and probing psychological intensity. Helnwein's focus on the innocent and wonder of childhood is exemplified in paintings whose forceful imagery is rooted in the artist's upbringing in post-World War II Vienna.

Gottfried Helnwein looks more like a rock star than an internationally acclaimed artist. Dressed all in black, with a bandanna around his head and dark glasses hiding his eyes, he resembles, in a superficial way, Bono. Like Bono, he is concerned about the most troubling issues of our times: violence, inhumanity and oppression. There is a cinematic quality to all of Helnwein's works, which seem to be projected on a wide screen. These "stilled cinematic moments," as Crocker curator Diana Daniels calls them, are powerfully affecting. "He deals with difficult subjects in a way that isn't propagandistic," Daniels said. "It's an open-ended way of dealing with historic subjects that are in danger of slipping away from us." Many of the images are very disturbing, and the museum has issued a warning that some images may be challenging for sensitive or younger viewers. But the show is a powerful one, posing questions we all need to contemplate.

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The exhibition GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN - INFERNO OF THE INNOCENTS at the Crocker Art Museum opens on Friday, January 28th from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Like a modern-day Goya, Gottfried Helnwein’s art addresses themes of inhumanity, violence and the virtue of personal expression. Over more than four decades, the artist has pursued a singular, radical vision realized in monumental paintings and photographs.

We met with Helnwein a day after his solo exhibition opened at Friedman Benda in New York. The minute he sat down and started talking, it was as if we were catching up with an old friend. He held nothing back. We discussed our respective childhood experiences, Austrian guilt, isolation, his practice, the importance of art, and what it's like to live in a castle. Helnwein is a real person.

Our regular feature, Collection Rotation. Each month a guest organizes an exhibition from our collection works online. Maria Naula works in SFMOMA’s Accessions Department supervising the acquisitions process, and it's possible she knows the collection, at least as it's grown over the last decade, more comprehensively than anyone on staff. Welcome!

VAIL, Colo.—Last year, Vicki and Kent Logan made headlines when they announced a $60 million-plus bequest to the Denver Art Museum—the largest planned gift in the museum’s 113-year history. That gift includes a promise of the Logan house and the private 7,500-square-foot museum situated next door. The Colorado-based couple has been active on museum boards for many years and has donated extensively to the Denver museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Viewers as well as critics describe his work as grotesque, audacious, shocking, and insulting. One who sees him in person is rather surprised at the fact that he is sane. His works are largescale, photorealistic paintings of horror. The artist has worked in diverse genres including watercolor, oil, and installation. However, his work's primary theme has always referenced his childhood. He does not render the beauty of childhood but spits an audacious, persistent interpretation of war, crime, damage, and holocaust. In "Adoration of the Magi", painted in 1996, for example, five men in Gestapo-like uniforms encircle a baby interpreted as Jesus or Hitler. Helnwein projects his weird vision without hesitation. Despite this uncanny quality, his works gain a high reputation, and are collected by many prestigious art museums around the world, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Smithsonian Museum.

TOP 10 The Gottfried Helnwein exhibition "The Child" at the Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, July) was chosen as the most important show of a contemporary artist in 2004. "In the first of two shows (the other at the Modernism Gallery in November), Helnwein's large format, photo-realist images of children of various demeanors boldly probed the subconscious. Innocence, sexuality, victimization and haunting self-possession surge and flicker in Helnwein's unnerving work."

Desde una edad temprana, el joven Helnwein vio en la represión e intolerncia propias de la educación católica un paralelismo del fascismo. Después de abandonar la escuela por esos motivos, fue admitido en el Institute of Higher Graphic Instruction, conocido por tener tendencias "experimentales". Como protesta ante la rigidez de la institución, cortó su mano con una navaja y dibujó a Adolf Hitler con su propia sangre. EI acto le valió la expulsión, así como una clara conciencia sobre el poder de una imagen. Terminó sus estudios en la Academia de Artes de Viena.

Her lips are parted and colored a luscious deep red. The pancake makeup on her face gives off a marble-white glow. A jacket, adorned with braided gold epaulets at the shoulders, yawns open, exposing a wide expanse of skin down her chest. She appears to be about 8 years old. There was a time, not so long ago, when the subject of Gottfried Helnwein's new, large-format digital prints at San Francisco's Modernism Gallery might have alarmed or even scandalized a viewer. Not anymore -- or at least not so reflexively... Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the Legion of Honor, deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers. But the most haunting images, here and across town at Modernism, may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes.

Helnwein is highly recommended even to those who do not have a predilection for morbid or grotesque art, for his intention is not merely to shock or titillate. Whereas many modern artists get lost in the artifice of excessive conceptualism, Gottfried Helnwein continues to produce challenging, thought-provoking work based on the weight of the subject matter, not the way in which it is presented. Having produced a wide range of imagery in a variety of mediums, Helnwein’s development is fascinating to trace from conceptual beginnings to his current synthesis of pop and fine art.

Using the metaphor of youthful innocence as a means to reveal the age-old violence that continues to permeate our times, Gottfried Helnwein produces impeccable realist paintings that send shivers down the spine. Casting children in the roles of both perpetrators and victims of war and terror, the LA-based artist strikes a sensitive nerve with his haunting visual narratives.

Here, Decadence is envisioned as a response to apocalypse, economic turmoil and the effects of late capitalism. Decadence Now!: Visions of Excess reaches back to the 1970s to examine pre-millennial rumblings of alienation, aestheticism, morbidity, pornography, intoxication and madness in the art of Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Keith Haring, Gottfried Helnwein, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Zhang Peng, Pierre et Gilles, Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin, David Wojnarowicz and many others.

During the past several years, the concepts of decadence have begun to appear more and more in art theory, often in relation to current art. Decadence is one of the continual properties of modern art. The commonness of the concept of decadence, or its parallel existence outside of the sphere of art, also enables new methodological processes and combinations, and discovers new territories and relationships. Decadent art is excessive, it exceeds the level of what is generally acceptable, and it provocatively demolishes the most sensitive taboos. Decadence is also firmly connected to the clear stance of outsider individualism. Starting on the 1970's, we can monitor the continual effort of the artists like Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Nobuyoshi Araki, Jake a Dinos Chapman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Damien Hirst, Zhang Peng, Keith Haring, Andres Serrano, Gottfried Helnwein etc. to work with typical decadent themes.

I know his paintings since I was a little child and made my first steps in a museum- and for me he`s definitely the artist that evokes the most intensive feelings that I Know.

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.

... his startling body of work: macabre paintings with photographic resonance played out on a grand scale and often in public settings. Throughout his career, Helnwein has glided easily between watercolor, oil and installation work, but his big subject has always been childhood, and not the happy sort. With titles like ‘‘The Murmur of the Innocents’’ and ‘‘God of Sub-Humans,’’ these works — executed with obsessive, old-master-worthy technique — can be as bludgeoning as, say, a Rammstein riff, but you can’t take your eyes off them.

I didn’t become an artist because I thought I knew the answers. But I had questions. When I started painting I was like an autistic child. I had no contact with the so-called “Higher Arts.” My aesthetics were inspired by poorly painted saints from the late 19th century, Donald Duck comics, Jimi Hendrix, Captain Beefheart, and the Rolling Stones. Originally I didn’t even want to become an artist. As a kid I thought painters were boring old guys with beards and berets standing in front of easels and painting abstract canvases all day long. Being a member of the Rolling Stones seemed to me more like the ideal form of existence as an artist.

Salvador Dali's "Hitler Masturbating" is a masterpiece of satire, or so says my inner Beavis, anyhow. Gottfried Helnwein's painting Epiphany I is another excellent example, reminding us that not only was Hitler once a baby, but also that we can recognize him without his mustache.

"Die Stille der Unschuld" wird am 23.-26-9.2010 auf dem International Film Festival of Fine Art in Szolnok, Ungarn (www.tiszamozi.hu) und am 16.-26.9.2010 auf dem Helsinki Intl Film Festival "Love & Anarchy" (www.hiff.fi) gezeigt. Die "Documentary Edge New Zealand Trust" in Neuseeland hat ihn in ihr Filmarchiv unter "Die besten Filme" aufgenommen.

Deshalb sei diese Ausstellung auch so wichtig für ihn, in Wien, einer Stadt, in der so große Künstler wie der von ihm verehrte Egon Schiele wirkten. Die „schräge Schönheit“, die Schiele bei seinen „Porträts der Sexualität“ erfand, seien sicher ein unbewusster Einfluss auf ihn, den ehemaligen Zögling einer christlichen Schule, der nur Leonardo da Vinci kannte, gewesen, meinte er. Prägender für seine Ästhetik, zählt er bereitwillig auf, waren aber David Lynchs Film „Blue Velvet“, der Surrealismus und noch ein Österreicher – Gottfried Helnwein, der ihn zur Kunst überhaupt erst ermutigte.

Die Vorführzeiten im Filmhaus Kino Köln: 1.7. 17.30 Uhr 2.7. 19.30 Uhr 3.7. 17.30 Uhr 4.7. 16.00 und 21.30 Uhr 5.7. 18.00 Uhr 6.7. 19.30 Uhr 7.7. 17.30 Uhr 8.7. 21:30 Uhr

Der Mann macht es seinem Publikum nicht leicht. Verstörende Bilder schafft er, fotorealistische Gemälde ebenso wie Fotographien über die dunklen Seiten der menschlichen Natur, über Qualen und Schmerzen, über Verletzung und Gewalt. Der Österreicher Gottfried Helnwein wurde damit zu einem der weltweit bekanntesten und zugleich umstrittensten deutschsprachigen Künstler der Nachkriegszeit.

Kinostart: Deutschland, 17.06.10 Berlin, Köln, Hamburg, Hannover, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Kassel, Nürnberg, Karlsruhe Weitere Termine

Was den Film prägt, ist seine unglaubliche Stille. Die ruhige, beinahe regungslose Kamera Susu Grunenbergs zeigt Helnwein bei der Arbeit, aus dem Off nur seine Stimme, die von künstlerischem Ansatz und Werdegang erzählt. Man wird unweigerlich in den Bann der Geschichte gezogen. Es ist wie bei einer Unterhaltung: Je leiser das Gegenüber spricht, desto aufmerksamer hört man ihm zu. Ganz still allerdings ist es allerdings nicht. Die einzigen Geräusche, die man hin und wieder hören kann, sind die spielender Kinder, was nicht ohne ist, wenn Helnwein zeitgleich Schicht um Schicht rote Farbe auf das Bild eines weiß gekleideten Mädchens aufträgt. Das ist harter Stoff – provokativ, aber eben umso intensiver und eindringlicher.

Mit "Der Künstler Gottfried Helnwein - Die Stille der Unschuld" beweist Regisseurin Claudia Schmid, dass sie sich zu Recht als Schöpferin authentischer Künstlerporträts und qualitativ hochwertiger Dokumentarfilme über bildende Kunst einen Namen gemacht hat. In ihrem ersten abendfüllenden Film zeigt sie durch stille Beobachtung und im persönlichen Gespräch, dass hinter dem Bild des Provokateurs Gottfried Helnwein ein Mann mit ausgeprägtem Gespür für das Zeitgeschehen und die Krankheiten unserer Gesellschaft steht, der auf eingängige und kompromisslose Weise darauf aufmerksam zu machen versteht. Ein aufschlussreiches und gelungenes Porträt.

Der in Wien geborene und heute meist in Irland lebende Künstler Gottfried Helnwein hat gleich mit seinen ersten öffentlichen Aktionen und Ausstellungen in den späten 60er und frühen 70er Jahren für Skandale gesorgt. Einmal mussten die zuständigen Kuratoren sogar seine Gemälde wieder abhängen lassen, um einen Streik der Angestellten zu verhindern. Mittlerweile ist Helnwein zwar im Mainstream des internationalen Kunstbetriebs angekommen – Arnold Schwarzenegger hat sich von ihm nach seiner Wahl zum Gouverneur von Kalifornien porträtieren lassen und zudem noch ein Landschaftspanorama bei ihm in Auftrag gegeben, das nun in einem Konferenzsaal in seinem (Noch-)Amtssitz in Sacramento hängt. Aber Helnweins hyperfotorealistische Bilder von bandagierten und geschundenen Kindern, von ermordeten und mordenden Mädchen polarisieren immer noch. Die Albträume, die sein Werk vor etwa 40 Jahren bei einem Wiener Kritiker ausgelöst hat, sind nicht Geschichte, sie können auch einen heutigen Betrachter verfolgen.

Und doch wird man in Claudia Schmids wohltuend gelassenem Künstlerporträt "Die Stille der Unschuld" den Eindruck nicht los, es mit einem Mann zu tun zu haben, der beharrlich auf die Gewaltsamkeit des menschlichen Daseins hinweist, weil dieser Aspekt ihn tatsächlich zutiefst beunruhigt. Ein Künstler, der sich seiner sicher ist und der sich zu verteidigen weiß, der wilde Geschichten in geruhsam wienerischem Pathos erzählt, zu denen Schmid Aufnahmen endlosen Minimalgepinsels, unterbrochen vom denkerischen Schluck aus dem Kaffeebecher gesellt. Ein Film mit Sogwirkung oder Abstoßungseffekt. Wie die Bilder.

Isiklikult häirib mind Helnweini juures tema tuntus šokikunstnikuna. Šokk viitab justkui mingile lühiajalisele afektile, sisse raiutud rabavale tundele. Meenuvad haisevad menstruatsiooniverega maalitud feministamaalid ja reaalsed risti löödud rotikorjused. Helnweini teosed töötavad pikem pikaajalisema õõvastuse mehhanismiga, mida ma šokiks ei kutsuks. Maalimislaadi järgi võiks teda üldse kategoriseerida hüperrealistiks. Aga hüperrealist ta, eksju, ei ole sest hüperrealistid tegelesid selliste progressiivsete, oluliste ja eluliste teemadega nagu läikivad autod ja poefassaadid. Et siis kodanlik hüperrealism mitte, labane šokikunst ka mitte. Mina nimetaksin seda peeneks psühholoogiaks. Ja kindlasti ka ülikõvaks.

Originally conceived in 2004 with pre-production throughout 2005 via The Wild Bunch (UK) and with an initial budget of $5-7 million, 'Phantasmagoria' was due to begin filming in 2006. Lily Cole, inspiration of Tim Burton's recent 'Alice in Wonderland', was originally cast as Manson's Alice for 'Phantasmagoria'. This teaser also features real-life twin sisters engaging in questionable acts and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. The figure in the medical mask is artist Gottfried Helnwein, and the bird-face masked character and white-gloved Lewis Carroll impresario [are both] Marilyn Manson.

This amazing, eight foot Gottfried Helnwein piece will look dope in some lucky Disney exec's office! So 600 mil... PLUS a Mickey painting! Filmmaker Kevin Smith writes WaxWord that he has desperately been trying to help Bob and Harvey Weinstein close the deal to buy Miramax. "I've sweetened the Weinstein's offer to buy Miramax back," he writes. "All day yesterday and just now this morning, I've been throwing Tweets and large artwork at the Mouse to up the ante, but they've not responded." Smith is a Weinstein diehard, who has been following the MIramax sale closely. The brothers bravely backed Smith in making such lasting cultural oddities ...landmarks... movies as "Clerks," "Mallrats," and "Chasing Amy." He has been Twittering (@thatkevinsmith) to his million-plus followers about the deal - offernig Mickey Mouse paintings, for example. The deal is in the midst of pitched negotiations since the Weinsteins were granted an exclusive window through the weekend to try and close the deal.

Das Marilyn-Manson-Porträt von Gottfried Helnwein ragt im Linzer Lentos Museum schräg aus der Wand heraus - so, als wolle sich das Bild den Besuchern in den Weg stellen. Immer wieder sind in der neuen Präsentation der Museumssammlung solche "Störenfriede" zu sehen, die sich noch dazu nicht an den chronologischen Aufbau halten: Helnweins Bild hängt neben Andy Warhols Mao-Porträt, Arnulf Rainer neben dem Expressionisten Schmitt-Rottluff, Keith Haring neben Kokoschka.

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This leads to the current governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Who will he select to depict him – in all his glory? There already exists an exquisite portrait of Schwarzenegger the body-builder done in 1977 by Jamie Wyeth. Were they alive today, perhaps Richard Rubenstein (of Interview cover fame), or even Andy Warhol himself, could have painted the official portrait. Since post-Studio 54, Schwarzenegger has been good friends with Gottfried Helnwein. Given his style of hyperrealism, I would not be surprised if he is chosen to paint the official portrait. This would be a similar break with tradition as was Brown's work, but given the history of this Governor and the unorthodox nature of both his personality and his ascension, a traditional portrait would seem out of place.

On ne peut pas ne pas remarquer que les artistes présents à la Biennale du Whitney sont méthodiquement mis en avant par leurs galeries – mais certains prétendront que c’est plutôt l’inverse qui se produit, et que les grosses galeries commerciales dictent les choix des curators. Si la crise explique à la fois le renouveau bienvenu des galeries et certaines inégalités, nous choisirons comme œuvres emblématiques de l’Armory Show 2010 la danseuse de Degas renversée par Richard Jackson à la galerie GP&N Vallois (Paris) et le regard troublant, tenace, de l’enfant peinte par Gottfried Helnwein à la galerie Friedman Benda (New York) : bouleversements, doutes, mais qualité.

The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week

A highly satisfying survey of his work at the Legion of Honor museum titled "The Child" was dominated by images of children, as was a current exhibition of his more recent work at Modernism.

Linz - Die bisher umfassendste Sammlungspräsentation des Linzer Kunstmuseums Lentos wurde am Mittwoch in einer Pressekonferenz mit Direktorin Stella Rollig und Kuratorin Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller präsentiert. Unter dem Titel "You never know what will happen next..." sind knapp 200 Werke von mehr als 120 Künstlern bis Ende November zu sehen. Im Pop-Art-Raum (1970 bis 1979) ist gleich dreimal Disneys berühmte Maus zu sehen: Sie ist sowohl Teil von Claes Oldenburgs "Geometrische Maus" als auch von Jim Dines "Picabia III", eine moderne und beängstigende Variante von Mickey zeigt Gottfried Helnweins "The Golden Age 1 (Marilyn Manson)".

Helnwein's realization of the final scene takes the breath away: a view of dozens of bloodied children's bodies, some of them hanging, some of them turning over and over in mid-air, as a vocal ensemble sings their words while kneeling on stage. This vision connects eerily with an exhibition in the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Centre plaza, adapted from one the Austrian Artist mounted in Cologne in 1988, marking the 50th anniversary of the Nazis' anti-Jewish Kristallnacht. It shows two rows of innocent, haunted-looking child's faces, one row with eyes open; the other with eyes closed, lined up as if in a concentration camp (Selektion is the exhibit's title).

Famous Austrian designer and artist Gottfried Helnwein designed the set and costumes for “The Child Dreams” Opera.  He also presents his work outside the opera. Helnwein says his work and the playwright’s have a strong internal connection.  Gottfried Helnwein: “In my work, the center of everything was always the child, the child versus the world of death, the world of corruption, the world of greed and destruction, and the child standing for innocence, purity, and I think that's a spirit of the play.”

The artist erected this art-installation originally in fall 1988 in the city of Cologne in Germany, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the pogrom-night of November 9, 1938. The Installation was placed between the Cologne Cathedral and the Ludwig Museum, alongside the railroad track of the central station. It was entirely financed by the artist. A hundred meter long wall of pictures with large images of children's faces, in a seemingly endless row, as if made to line up to be "selected". With the faces of christian, jewish and handicapped children, that lived in Germany in 1988. In the second night after the opening, unknown people cut all the throats of the children on the pictures. For the first time this memorial is now presented in Israel and for that occasion the artist included faces of children living in Israel in 2010.

One of the most important productions of the Israeli Opera's 25th anniversary season is the world premiere of the opera The Child Dreams, based on the most poetic and lyric play by the late Hanoch Levin, undoubtedly, one of Israel's greatest playwrights. With his stage design, costumes, make-up and videos, Gottfried Helnwein created a breathtaking and revolutionary new visual realization for that play. Together with director Omri Nitzan he developed a new conception for the adaption as an opera . Composed is the opera by Israeli composer Gil Shohat, and David Stern, the Israeli Opera's music director, is conducting this new opera featuring closed to 20 Israeli opera singers on the stage. Helnwein also included dancer and choreographer Gregor Seyffert who is in charge of the choreography.

SELEKTION-NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT מיצב של האמן גוטפריד הלנוויין, לזכר "ליל הבדולח", 1938, אשר מוצב בפעם הראשונה בישראל. המיצב הוקם לראשונה בסתיו 1988, לרגל ציון 50 שנה לפוגרום ליל הבדולח, שנערך ב-9 בנובמבר 1938, והוצב בין הקתדרלה של קלן ומוזיאון לודוויג, לצד מסילת הברזל של תחנת הרכבת של קלן. אורכו של המיצב היה 100 מטר, והוא הורכב מתמונות גדולות של פני ילדים, כשורה בלתי נגמרת, והם כמו עומדים בשורת סלקציה. במיצב המקורי צולמו פניהם של ילדים נוצרים,יהודים ונכים, שחיו בגרמניה בשנת 1988. בלילה השני אחרי פתיחת המיצב לקהל, אנונימים חתכו