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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group show ...

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. ...

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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. ...