Gottfried Helnwein's classic yet unnerving images transform sentimental representations of childhood into portraits of individual subjects frozen at the moment of suffering. His photo-paintings pirouette on the fine line between chocolate box pictures/excessive sentimentality and the cost to children of being treated as commodities, of suffering emotional or physical pain at a grown-up's hands.
High pictorial and technical values create compositions that recall contemporary cinema and seventeenth-century painting, expanding the treatment of time into epic. This apparent grandiosity plays against the immediacy of each suffering subject, underlining the different experience of time in childhood. Small hurts can devastate when you're a child. Big hurts stay with you for years, as survivors of Hitler's Anschluss testify.
Now, in the age of virtual use and abuse of children, Helnwein's insistence on valuing the humanity and charm of the littlest, the least powerful, offers a counterpoint to claims that suffering counts most when you're grown-up. It opens his practice into a series of pictorial mise-en-scènes, as did Rembrandt's tableaux in The Blinding of Samson (1636) or The Night Watch (1642). ...

Nach "Das Rheingold/Die Walküre" im Opernhaus Bonn, folgt in der Spielzeit 2007/2008 "Siegfried/Die Götterdämmerung" als zweiter Teil. Bühne und Kostüme aller 4 Teile des "Ring des Nibelungen" sind von Gottfried Helnwein gestaltet. ...

Masterpieces from the Essl Collection and Bank Austria Collection ...

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Vicki and Kent Logan hosting a dinner at their home in honor of Gottfried Helnwein. ...

Apama Mackey Gallery
Houston, Texas ...

A far parte del Comitato Scientifico della Armonia International Foundation of Arts hanno già aderito gli artisti Cy Twombly e Gottfried Helnwein, Eugenia Petrova, direttrice scientifica del Museo di Stato Russo di San Pietroburgo, Gabriella Belli, direttrice del MART di Rovereto, Larry Gagosian, gallerista a Londra, New York e Roma, Jean Claude Marcadè e Rossella Caruso, storici dell’arte, e la scrittrice Diana Picasso ...

In memory of Francisco de Goya ...

FIGURES OF DESIRE: fantasies of identification, disguises or transformations, social roles in construction of gender and sexuality. ...

Die Ausstellung reflektiert Persönlichkeit und Werk des bedeutenden Grazer Dramatikers Wolfgang Bauer in Form einer simultanen Videoinstallation mit Erinnerungen seiner Freunde und Weggefährten, wie u. a. Gert Jonke, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Herbert Achternbusch, Max Droschl, Franz Ringel, Barbara Frischmuth, Gottfried Helnwein, Alfred Kolleritsch, Olga Neuwirth, Paulus Manker, Heribert Sasse, Ulrich Schulenburg, Heinz Sichrovsky, Peter Weibel, Heidi und Jack Bauer. ...