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| Dieter Ronte | ||
| Director, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna |
"Warhol is the pre-Helnwein ... " |
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| Stella Rollig | ||
| Direktorin, Kunstmuseum Lentos Linz |
"Wenn man in der österreichischen bildenden Kunst der letzten fünfzig Jahre jemanden als Star bezeichnen möchte, dann kommt, unter Berücksichtigung aller Kennzeichen, nur einer in Betracht: Gottfried Helnwein. " |
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| Marilyn Manson | ||
| musician, artist |
"Gottfried Helnwein is my mentor - on any artistic thing I've done. |
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| Lynell George | ||
| Los Angeles Times |
"What Helnwein creates, regardless the medium - watercolor, oil, photography, performance art, sculpture - is a thorny psychological excursion into our sublimated self, our obscured corners and dark humors. His explorations into war crimes, Catholicism, disfigurement and the Holocaust are both unflinching and surgical. His work is in museum collections around the world, including those of LACMA and the Smithsonian, and critics have labeled it grotesque, fearless, disturbing and veer[ing] dangerously close to offensive. 'People are surprised', he says, when they discern that he doesn't seem insane." |
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| Steven Winn | ||
| San Francisco Chronicle, Arts and Culture Critic |
"Adults bring a trunkful of contradictory cultural baggage to any representations of children. That's what makes the work of Helnwein so powerful. In his show, "The Child," at the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, deformed infants and bandaged children stir feelings of pity, defiance and uneasiness about exploitation. There's an ambiguously disturbing painting of a girl aiming a gun into an open refrigerator and another of a bare-breasted mother and child surrounded by Aryan soldiers. |
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| Wolfgang Bauer | ||
| poet, playwright |
"As long ago as 1963 a fellow-artist and I imagined the horrible future of a free-lance artist. |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger | ||
| Governor of California |
"Gottfried Helnwein is a genius!" |
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| Carl Barks | ||
| Comic-artist, writer, creator of Donald Duck and Scrooge Mc Duck |
"Gottfried Helnwein is the world's Finest Artist" |
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| Roger Avary | ||
| director, writer, producer |
"Gottfried is a genius, and possibly my favorite living artist" |
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| Robert Crumb | ||
| artist |
"Helnwein is a very fine artist and one sick motherfucker." |
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