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"Kleines Helnwein" a play by Rodrigo M. Malmsten
inspired by the early work of Gottfried Helnwein
language: spanish

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. Una mujer que vive como una niña; un hombre que vive como un niño; una entidad ("Kleines", es el adjetivo aleman neutro: lo pequeño) se trata de una víctima aunque también, de un posible victimario. Tal vez, en su historia, sus padres hayan ejercido abusos de poder sobre este niño/hombre o esta niña/mujer. Tal vez no hubo padres, sino una figura real side nuestro reciente pasado histórico, responsable de haber deformado a este individuo/sujeto/personaje, convirtiéndolo en un ser perverso y dulce, en un asesino posible. Kleines Helnwein no será luego una víctima. ...

Helnwein.
Gottfried Helnwein. Palace edition.
St. Petersburg, Russia : State Russian Museum, 1997.
Art/Classics fTR647.H441997 Room 308G

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Abitur 2002
KUNSTERZIEHUNG
als Leistungsfach
Malerei/Grafik
Aufgabe mit gestalterischem Schwerpunkt und schriftlichem Anteil
Chuck Close: Selbstporträt, 1971
Gottfried Helnwein: Selbstporträt, 1983
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn: Selbstbildnisse 1630, Radierungen ...

Helnwein.com. Gottfried Helnwein : My personal favourite artist. Consistently outstanding, and his site is always informative and up to date.

How can one recount the Holocaust? That is certainly one of the major questions confronting any writer who tries to write on this theme. How is one to transform the horrific and inconceivable reality into fiction? How can one create a feeling of aunthenticity in the reader? How to disturb his emotional world without resorting to sentimental manipulation and how to avoid banality? ... ...

Q:How can you explain the artistic cruelty of your cover art works? Why is there so much pain and suffering on them? Where is the border between art and cruelty?
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A:We like to arise controversies and that is why already on the second album we decided to choose the photographs of Helnwein for our cover artwork. We really like his attitude towards art and the way he showed us. It turned out that a band picture can be something different, a real art, and not just another common, boring shot of a few people. ...

originally appeared in: HELNWEIN, Gottfried. Wer ist Carl Barks. Radolfszell: Neff Verlag, 1993. (p. 238-241)
Carl Barks
His Work and
His Life
"My greatest source of enjoyment in Carl Barks' comics is in the imagination of his stories. They're so full of crazy ideas - unique and special..." George Lucas! ...

Indepth Arts News:
..Alfred Kubin's Kuss (Kiss) is also expected to cause quite a stir in the room. The ink drawing of 1903 is probably a reaction to the sudden death of the artist's fiance Emmy Bayer. The profound work on hand-made paper is estimated at DM 12,000 - 15,000.
Slightly higher is the estimate for a work by Gottfried Helnwein which was made around 1982 and is expected to fetch DM 18,000 - 20,000. One year earlier the artist began with a series about Helden (Heros) of today, which include the extraterrestrial E.T. from Steven Spielberg's film. With his smoking E.T. Helnwein defies art by making a mass-media fantasy figure, the hero of countless children, into an object worthy of depiction.
Completely detached is Georges Braque's Grand oiseau bleu floating in the sky. The colour lithograph is estimated at DM 14,000 - 16,000. ...

A controversial "Nazi" image by artist Gottfried Helnwein was daubed with red paint last week as Kilkenny Arts Festival entered its final days. Another Helnwein print, of a local girl, was set on fire and extensively damaged.

A spokesman for the festival said they were "disappointed and saddened" that the images had been attacked. He said Mr Helnwein's work had provoked a strong reaction throughout the festival. "There have been a lot of positive comments but there has been negative reaction as well."
The images have been a major talking point since before the festival began. A former mayor of the city, Mr Paul Cuddihy, initially objected to a painting being hung on the City Hall for fear it might be misinterpreted as lending support to Nazism. After meeting Mr Helnwein at his studio in Co Tipperary, however, Mr Cuddihy said the artist's work was "astonishingly good".

Kilkenny Arts Festival said the artist had a long and acknowledged record of taking a firm stand against Nazism and fascism. ...

The major art works of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, at Kilkenny Castle, Butler House and throughout the city are beautiful, prosaic, sinister, grotesque, unusual and ordinary and provoked a lot of discussion and disgust.

A controversial mural by Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein has been damaged at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.
Huge canvases of his work, depicting images of Nazi soldiers staring adoringly at modern Madonna and Child figures, were displayed on various buildings in Kilkenny during the festival.
One of the murals hanging at the front of Kilkenny castle had paint thrown at it sometime during the night.
Another picture by Mr Helnwein, featuring a young Kilkenny girl, was also partially damaged in another part of the town. ...

The visual focal point of the arts festival has to be Gottfried Helnwein's huge photographic images displayed on the streets of Kilkenny. Originally from Austria, Helnwein is now based in County Tipperary. His display of works on the streets of Kilkenny, and in Butler House, is testament to the power of this man's visual imagery. Helnwein's concerns could be viewed on a political level, indeed in his own homeland his work has been hounded by controversy, as he directly pinpoints neo-Nazi neuroses.
'Epiphany I: Adoration of the Magi' depicts a beautiful Madonna and Child being examined by Himmler's elite SS officers. This is strong stuff, with piercing connotations on the interaction of religion, politics and power in the 20th century. Juxtaposed with these images are a series of enlarged photographs of children's faces from Kilkenny. Hung in the same manner as billboard advertisements on buildings and walls, these photographs, with their silent, shut-eyed subjects, are meditative comments on life in the making. ...

Workmen finish one of a series of prints measuring 9.3 metres by 6.2 metres by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.The prints of Kilkenny children will hang on buildings in Kilkenny as parts of its arts festival beginning on August 10th. ...

Una sociedad intolerante formada por padres que abusan de sus hijos y líderes políticos que ejercen de dictadores es lo que podremos ver en Kleines Helnwein, el espectáculo que el argentino Rodrigo M. Malmsten presenta en el Grec.
Inspirada en la estética del pintor austriaco Gottfried Helnwein, autor de obras que denuncian una sociedad oscura e hipócrita, para Kleines Helnwein Malmsten ha escrito un texto fragmentario, no realista, en el que el espectador advierte que el personaje que es una víctima se convierte en verdugo. ...

Strawinskys “The Rake´s Progress” hat am 10.06.
unter Flimm /Helnwein/ Metzmacher Premiere
» Flimm hat gemeinsam mit Helnwein, der auch die witzigen, farcenhaft übersteigerten Kostüme entworfen hat, am Bühnenbild gefeilt. «Die kleine Bühne macht die Figuren sehr stark. Und passend zu dem plakativen Stück hat Helnwein großformatig Videos und Dias mit Großstadtszenen und verzerrten Gesichtern in den Raum projiziert.» ...

Handiscoop: Welke foto’s fascineerden uzelf het meest?
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Patrick: Ik ben onwaarschijnlijk onder de indruk van de foto van Gottfried Helnwein: een nostalgisch beeld van een jongen die aan het bidden is tot zijn God, Donald Duck. Alleen de aandachtige kijker ziet dat deze biddende jongen zijn handen niet kan samenvouwen. Zijn handen bestaan namelijk uit prothesen. ...