Gottfried Helnwein | ARTISTA | Bibliografia

catalogue
essay by Wolfgang Bauer ...

Monograph
texts by Alexander Borovsky, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art
Peter Selz
Klaus Honnef
William Burroughs
Heiner Müller ...

texts by:
Alexander Borovsky
Curator for Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
THE HELNWEIN PASSION
Peter Selz
Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley. Former Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum.
HELNWEIN: THE ARTIST AS PROVOCATEUR
Klaus Honnef
Curator for Contemporary Art at Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
THE SUBVERSIVE POWER OF ART
Evgenija Nicolaevna Petrova
Chief Curator of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
THE METAPHORICAL PRINCIPLE OF GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN ... ...

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.
There is nothing autobiographical, no therapy, and it says nothing about me personally.
.... I am always available as a model." ...

(Auszug)
In seinen Gemälden und Grafiken arbeitet Helnwein besonders in der Mitte der 80er Jahre gleichzeitig mit unterschiedlichen Techniken: Abstrakte, gestische und monochrome Malerei stehen neben Fotorealistischen Porträts, Aquarell und Zeichnung neben Fotografie, die er zum Teil stark überarbeitet.
Dabei integriert er Bildzitate aus Politik, Massenmedien und Trivialkultur. Bevorzugter Gegenstand seiner Arbeiten sind Kinderbilder, Porträts und Menschen in einem oft trostlosen Stadtraum. ...

Old photographic techniques are currently inspiring artists again while others are experimenting with new techniques:
amongst the latter are William Wegman, Gottfried Helnwein, Toto Frima, Bernhard Faucon, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Anke Erlenhoff and Candida Höfer. ...

Helnweins künstlerische Praxis beruht auf der Erkenntnis der grundsätzlich unterschiedlichen Seinsformen von Fotografie und Malerei. Einerseits schöpft er als einer der konsequentesten Multimedia-Künstler überhaupt die spezifischen Möglichkeiten der jeweils verwendeten Medien bis zu den Grenzen ihrer Horizonte aus -- neben Fotografie und Malerei die Zeichnung und die Performance -, spiegelt sie andererseits, aber auch gewissermassen ineinander, so dass sie sich gegenseitig erhellen und ihre Wirkung steigern. ...

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

"Child's Head", 1991, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 650x403.5
Pg. 278
The early stages of this monumental head can be seen in Helnwein's widely varied portrayals from the seventies of suffering children, but above all in the Cologne installation of anonymous children's portraits "9th November Night" from 1988.
The human face, in particular the child's face, is of great fascination for Helnwein and consequently accounts for one of his central pictorial subjects. The monumental face of a little girl which is introduced here is, as it were, representative of all children. In our adult society oriented towards profit and success, children can almost be described as a fringe group, their interests indeed being observed in a comparatively modest fashion. Against this background, this monumentalizing of the face in connection with the hyperrealistic style of painting is to be understood as an oppressive irritation of our customary experience of perception.
Originally the child's head was shown in a Minorite church in Krems, Stein; in fact it was placed at the focal point of a huge early Gothic room which lent the picture a positively sacral tone. ...

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). ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

... Among others, Joel-Peter Witkin's repugnant, prosthetic-clad Dominatrice, from 1988, is here, as is Gottfried Helnwein's barbaric 1987 Self-Portrait, depicting his own torture with surgical tools. By exploring the simpler technique ...
(An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, Print, book review
by Fred Ritchin)
608 pages; 499 b&w and color illustrations;
Introductions by Barbara Hitchcock and Deborah Klochko Essay by Deborah Martin Kao Friends of Photography/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 120 pages; 90 color photographs; ...

Edited bei Angelika Taschen und Burkhard Riemenschneider
Text bei Gilles Neret ...

Catalogue
Muffathalle, München
47. Berliner Festwochen, Berliner Arena
Ausstattung: Gottfried Helnwein
Regie: Gert Hof ...


	1999 Museum of Lower Austria Peter Zawrel Chief Curator, Lower Austria County Museum of Art HELNWEIN APOKALYPSE Installation and one-man show In the Dominican church, Krems catalogue essay by Wolfgang Bauer ...


	01. giugno 1997 The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Palace Edition HELNWEIN Retrospctive in the The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Monograph texts by Alexander Borovsky, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art Peter Selz Klaus Honnef William Burroughs Heiner Müller ...


	1997 The State Russian Museum St. Petersburg Monograph Alexander Borovsky Curator for Contemporary Art, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg HELNWEIN Russian Edition texts by: Alexander Borovsky Curator for Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg THE HELNWEIN PASSION Peter Selz Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley. Former Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum. HELNWEIN: THE ARTIST AS PROVOCATEUR Klaus Honnef Curator for Contemporary Art at Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn THE SUBVERSIVE POWER OF ART Evgenija Nicolaevna Petrova Chief Curator of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg THE METAPHORICAL PRINCIPLE OF GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN ... ...


	10. agosto 2000 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Robert A. Sobieszek Curator of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art GHOST IN THE SHELL Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000 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. There is nothing autobiographical, no therapy, and it says nothing about me personally. .... I am always available as a model." ...


	1997 Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe Katalog, Prestel, München, New York Heinrich Klotz Direktor, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe KUNST DER GEGENWART/CONTEMPORARY ART Mit Beiträgen von Horst Bredekamp und Ursula Frohne (Auszug) In seinen Gemälden und Grafiken arbeitet Helnwein besonders in der Mitte der 80er Jahre gleichzeitig mit unterschiedlichen Techniken: Abstrakte, gestische und monochrome Malerei stehen neben Fotorealistischen Porträts, Aquarell und Zeichnung neben Fotografie, die er zum Teil stark überarbeitet. Dabei integriert er Bildzitate aus Politik, Massenmedien und Trivialkultur. Bevorzugter Gegenstand seiner Arbeiten sind Kinderbilder, Porträts und Menschen in einem oft trostlosen Stadtraum. ... Katalog, Prestel, München, New York


	01. dicembre 1998 Taschen Volume I + II Ruhrberg, Schneckenburger, Fricke, Honnef Edited by Ingo F. Walter ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY Painting, Sculpture, New Media, Photography Old photographic techniques are currently inspiring artists again while others are experimenting with new techniques: amongst the latter are William Wegman, Gottfried Helnwein, Toto Frima, Bernhard Faucon, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Anke Erlenhoff and Candida Höfer. ...


	1998 Klaus Honnef Curator for Photography and New Media, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn Prestel, München, New York Die Sammlung der DG Bank DAS VERSPRECHEN DER FOTOGRAFIE Gottfried Helnwein Helnweins künstlerische Praxis beruht auf der Erkenntnis der grundsätzlich unterschiedlichen Seinsformen von Fotografie und Malerei. Einerseits schöpft er als einer der konsequentesten Multimedia-Künstler überhaupt die spezifischen Möglichkeiten der jeweils verwendeten Medien bis zu den Grenzen ihrer Horizonte aus -- neben Fotografie und Malerei die Zeichnung und die Performance -, spiegelt sie andererseits, aber auch gewissermassen ineinander, so dass sie sich gegenseitig erhellen und ihre Wirkung steigern. ... Gottfried Helnwein, Die Sammlung der DG Bank


	01. settembre 2000 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Catalogue Heather Whitmore Jain Curatorial Associate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art THE DARKER SIDE OF PLAYLAND CHILDHOOD IMAGERY FROM THE LOGAN COLLECTION' AT SFMOMA Gottfried Helnwein, "Mickey", oil and acrylic on canvas,210cm x 310cm ... Essay by Heather Witmore Jain


	2000 Robert Sandelson Gallery London Text by Robert Flynn Johnson Curator in Charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco HELNWEIN one-man show catalogue ... Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator in Charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco


	1998 Evgenija Petrova Chief curator, State Russian Museum St Petersburg The State Russian Museum St. Petersburg Palace Edition THE LUDWIG MUSEUM IN THE RUSSIAN MUSEUM The Ludwig Donation "Child's Head", 1991, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 650x403.5 Pg. 278 The early stages of this monumental head can be seen in Helnwein's widely varied portrayals from the seventies of suffering children, but above all in the Cologne installation of anonymous children's portraits "9th November Night" from 1988. The human face, in particular the child's face, is of great fascination for Helnwein and consequently accounts for one of his central pictorial subjects. The monumental face of a little girl which is introduced here is, as it were, representative of all children. In our adult society oriented towards profit and success, children can almost be described as a fringe group, their interests indeed being observed in a comparatively modest fashion. Against this background, this monumentalizing of the face in connection with the hyperrealistic style of painting is to be understood as an oppressive irritation of our customary experience of perception. Originally the child's head was shown in a Minorite church in Krems, Stein; in fact it was placed at the focal point of a huge early Gothic room which lent the picture a positively sacral tone. ...


	1998 Published by Prestel Luminita Sabau, Iris Cramer, Petra Kirchberg DG Bank, Hara Bijutsukan (Tokyo, Japan) THE PROMISE OF PHOTOGRAPHY The DG Bank Collection ...


	27. novembre 1999 Museum Ludwig, Cologne Catalogue, Salon Verlag The Gruber Collection, Cologne AUGENBLICK UND ENDLICHKEIT Das von der Photographie geprägte Jahrhundert 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). ...


	1997 Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe Published by Prestel CONTEMPORARY ART ...


	10. ottobre 2000 Albertina, Wien Ingried Brugger, Angela Stief MALEREI - ÖSTERREICHISCHE KÜNSTLERINNEN JETZT painting - Austrian artists now exhibition-catalogue Albertina, Wien - 10. 10. 2000 - 18. 10. 2000 Galerie Suppan, Wien - 23.10. - 25.11. 2000 ...


	10. ottobre 2000 canongate books rebel inc. Edited by Howard Sounes HELNWEIN PHOTOGRAPH ON THE COVER OF "BUKOWSKI IN PICTURES" 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. ...


	01. novembre 1999 Prestel-Künstlerlexikon KUNST UND KÜNSTLER IM 20. JAHRHUNDERT Gottfried Helnwein 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. ...


	01. febbraio 1999 The Ansel Adams Center for Photography San Francisco INNOVATION / IMAGINATION 50 Years of Polaroid Photography 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 ...


	1999 Harry N. Abrams Keith F. Davis Foreword by Donald J. Hall INNOVATION/IMAGINATION Fifty Years of Polaroid Photography ... Among others, Joel-Peter Witkin's repugnant, prosthetic-clad Dominatrice, from 1988, is here, as is Gottfried Helnwein's barbaric 1987 Self-Portrait, depicting his own torture with surgical tools. By exploring the simpler technique ... (An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, Print, book review by Fred Ritchin) 608 pages; 499 b&w and color illustrations; Introductions by Barbara Hitchcock and Deborah Klochko Essay by Deborah Martin Kao Friends of Photography/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 120 pages; 90 color photographs; ...


	1998 Taschen Cologne, Lisboa, London, New York, Paris, Tokyo Angelika Taschen, Gilles Neret EROTIC ART Twentieth-Century Erotic Art Edited bei Angelika Taschen und Burkhard Riemenschneider Text bei Gilles Neret ...


	1997 HAMLETMASCHINE 47. Berliner Festwochen, Hamletmaschine von Heiner Müller in der Berliner Arena Catalogue Muffathalle, München 47. Berliner Festwochen, Berliner Arena Ausstattung: Gottfried Helnwein Regie: Gert Hof ...