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Peter Gorsen writes in his Essay
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, DER KÜNSTLER ALS AGRESSOR UND VERMALEDEITER MORALIST for the Helnwein exhibition at the Albertina Museum in Vienna 1985: |
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...In addition to sketches of ballet-dancing hares, booted cats, and strangled and stuffed ducks, there are studies or imaginative drawings of the heads of ill-treated children, whose mouths are grotesquely disfigured by braces and pink coloured scars. The grimaces on these mocking distorted faces signalize disobedience, opposition and turmoil, as well as a kind of childlike autonomy in the depraved world of adults. The grin found on the faces of ill-treated children, a grotesque picture puzzle which includes both the martyrdom and subversion of mankind is entirely Helnwein’s invention. It is manifested in the metamorphic images of injured bodies. It is an obsessive pattern which is repeated in Helnwein’s pictoral representation of the world and in his staged artistic actions, serving as a metaphor for the invulnerability and invincibility deeply seated in man.
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GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, DER KÜNSTLER ALS AGRESSOR UND VERMALEDEITER MORALIST, by Peter Gorsen, 1985
