"High above Marlene Dietrich Blvd. in the city of Berlin, the sun smoldered below the concrete gutter sky like a cigarette burn in a stained bedsheet. We set forth to the Dome of Berlin at dusk and I felt like I was in my own painting, "The Death of Art." Helnwein and I created a living installation with two disabled nude women as families stopped their picnics to stare. Of course we documented this for future viewing. But it didn't begin there...
"Determined, I headed for the birthplace of Expressionism, humming "The Alabama Song," by Kurt Weill. It was time for The Grotesk Burlesk and dozens of mice scurried from the Kinderfeld. Their political organs had to be removed and we set them in formation, creating a metaphorical "question mark."
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ART!
April 12-June 8
Opening Reception Friday, April 11, 6-8 pm
An international survey of contemporary art based on comic book and cartoon imagery, including painting and sculpture, video, high and low-tech animation, "zines," fashion design, comic strips, and comic books. Comic Release features art by more than fifty nationally-known and emerging artists, including: Gottfried Helnwein, Laylah Ali, Michel Bevilacqua, Blake Boyd, Enrique Chagoya, Michaell Ray Charles, Nicole Eisenman, Neil Farber, Chris Finley, Karen Finley, Arturo Herrera, Leslie Lew, Kerry James Marshall, Yoshitomo Nara, Walter Robinson, Al Souza, Kara Walker, and Sue Williams.. ...

Works on display include well-known pieces by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Allan Jones, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon Gottfried Helnwein and Henri Cartier-Bresson, as well as previously unseen works by Conny Holthusen, Antonio de Felipe, José de Guimares and Ernesto Tatafiore. ...

Vanessa Beecroft, VALIE EXPORT, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Ilse Haider, GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, Birgit Jürgenssen, Marie-Jo Lafontaine,Tracey Moffatt, Thomas Ruff, Shirin Neshat, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Lois Renner, Eva Schlegel, Sean Scully, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, és Rosemarie Trockel
2003. március 14 – június 1. ...

Poems and novels, films and photographs, paintings and performances, monuments and memorials, even comics are the cultural forms that engage us with catastrophic and traumatic history.
Through these eyes we have come to know events which defy the possibility of representation. We have come to bear witness to history. ...

In der Schau werden rund 120 zeitgenössische Fotografien von namhaften Künstlern vorgestellt, darunter Herlinde Koelbl, Nick Knight, Anton Corbijn und Gottfried Helnwein. ...

Art Direction: Gottfried Helnwein
Editing and primary director of photography:
Benjamin at the Barbarian Group
Second camera: Charles Koutris
Location: studio Helnwein, Los Angeles ...

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group show
Artists support Nazareth House in Cape Town South Africa.
Nazareth House is a world respected organisation dedicated to the stable and secure care of children in need. The Sisters of Nazareth were asked to care for one HIV baby in 1992 and since then, in their centre and their township outreach programmes, they have looked after more than 250 HIV infected babies and children. ...

Gottfried Helnwein, Patrick Morrison, Bryten Goss and Miguel Arguello. ...

Helnwein
by Mic Moroney
...This unease with, and yet celebration of German-language cutlure continues to inform Helnwein's work, not least in this large piece, "The Silent Glow of the Avant Garde"
Helnwein's painting - both cheekily and totally in homage - appropriates the great paintings, "The Polar Sea" (1824) by the leading German Romantic landscape artist Casper David Friedrich. Helnwein here re-renders the painting in a gloomy, cinematic blue-black duochrome, and hugely magnifies it from its original scale (about 1 metre by 1 metre 30), although the foundered ship still seems dwarfed and pulverised by the splintering ice sheets. It remains a fine example of that particularly Germanic celebration of heroic humanity dashing itself against the majestic cruelty of nature.
Helnwein, in his wry title and borrowing of the image, is suggesting an uncomfortable paradigm behind Friedrich's painting - a perpetual sense of momentous revolution within nature, raw humanity and indeed artistic culture. These ideas pervaded Friedrich's work, as well as that of composer Richard Wagner and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - all of whose works were later so mistakenly absorbed into the "superhuman" aesthetic of Nazi ideaology and doctrine... ...

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»Call Me Burroughs« ist eine Wanderausstellung für die reale Welt. Die Schau versammelt Fotos von Burroughs und seinen Freunden von allen Etappen des Burroughs' schen Lebenswegs - der Kindheit im St. Louis der späten 1910er Jahre, dem Alter in Lawrence, Kansas und den dazwischenliegenden Stationen New York City, Mexico City, Tanger, Paris, London etc. Produziert wurde die Ausstellung aus Anlaß von Burroughs 80. Geburtstag im Jahr 1994. Ihre Exponate stammen aus circa 50 Archiven und Sammlungen der Vereinigten Staaten und diversen Ländern Europas. ...

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Gottfried Helnwein, John Lennon, 1994
oil and acrylic on canvas,
courtesy Modernism, San Francisco ...

group show
Gottfried Helnwein, Thomas Struth, Marie-Lo Lafontaine, Nan Goldin, Vanessa Beecroft, Sean Scully and others
Exhibition catalogue:
Catalogue German / English with contributions by Gabriele Bösch,
Christine Frisinghelli, Rainer Igla / Michael Mauracher,
Edelbert Köb, Lois Renner and Eva Schlegel
The exhibition includes around 85 works from the collection's holdings
and several loans, selected by Gabriele Bösch from the perspective of photo/art. Many of the photographic works owned by the collection are now showcased for the first time and put into a traditional painting context,
thereby inviting an exciting discourse between painting and photography.
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