The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey presents the exhibition Austrian Contemporary Art and Post-war Painting: The Essl Collection, a seminal encounter with the most commanding pictorial propositions engendered in the second half of the 2Oth century.
Gottfried Helnwein digresses from fleeting contemplation with his Self-portrait: the canvas on display prompts an immediate, impulsive reaction... ...

ゴットフリート・ヘルンバイン（1948年10月8日ウィーン生まれ）は、オーストリア系アイルランド人の画家、写真家、兼パフォーマンスアーティスト。
ヘルンバインはウィーン美術アカデミー絵画科（Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien）で学ぶ。同大学にてマスタースクール賞（Meisterschulpreis）、後にカーディナル（枢機卿）ケーニヒ（王）賞、テオドル・ケルナー賞を受賞。
彼の初期の作品は主として傷ついた子供達を描いた超リアリスティックな水彩画、同時に彼は公共の場で実際に子供達を交えてそういったパフォーマンスを披露することも度々あった。ヘルンバインは概念的なアーティストであり、主として心理学的、社会学的な不安感や、歴史的問題、政治的話題を取り上げてきた。結果として彼の作品はしばしば挑発的と受けとめられ、物議をかもしてきた。彼は様々な手法と媒体を用い、画家、デッサン家、写真家、壁画家、彫刻家、そしてパフォーマンスアーティストとして作品を残してきた。ヘルンバインはまた、劇場、バレイ、オペラといった、舞台製作や衣装デザインでも知られている。その中にはハンブルク国立歌劇場、ベルリン・フォルクスビューン劇場やロサンゼルスオペラ座等がある。 ...

Die Ludwiggalerie im Schloß Oberhausen mag bereits die zweite Präsentationsstätte von Gottfried Helnweins Ausstellung "Beautiful Children" sein, doch sie ist erste Wahl, was die Präsentation betrifft. In den großen Räumen verteilen sich rund drei Dutzend Werke, darunter eine kleine Auswahl von "Klassikern" der siebziger Jahre des vergangenen Jahrhunderts, als der Wiener Maler mit seinen typisch deformierten oder verbundenen Gesichtern bekannt wurde, und Reprisen älterer Schlüsselwerke wie etwa die in ihrer Brutalität berückend originalgetreue Micky Maus ("Midnight Mickey"), die hier in einer Version aus dem Jahr 2001 vertreten ist.
Doch das sind Bilder, die längst in die popkulturelle Walhalla eingegangen sind. Deshalb ist es erfreulich, daß diese erste größere deutsche Einzelausstellung seit vielen Jahren den Schwerpunkt eindeutig auf neue Projekte legt: auf "The Golden Age" etwa, wo der Popstar Marilyn Manson in wechselnden Masken das Modell für Helnweins Kamera abgibt ...

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Austrian born artist Gottfried Helnwein so often finds himself in the eye of the storm, it must feel like home. He is known for highly charged paintings and photographs of suffering children, Nazi themes, and then also magnificent bucolic landscapes. His fans outnumber his detractors, though, and he has won many admirers and collectors both in his adoptive home of Los Angeles, and around the world. Among them, California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenneger, actor Sean Penn, and musician Marilyn Manson, who is a frequent subject.
He identifies strongly with the oppressed, and society's most vulnerable members: children. "When I see how kids grow up , how they are neglected and mistreated , how they get polluted with drugs, junk food, insane television and bad schools, it's terrible, - and dangerous, because they are our future. Children are sacred - we need to protect, support and encourage them." ...

After further examining his work on my computer, I left . . . heart racing several beats faster, fingers tingling. Helnwein reminded me how to feel. It was like the first time I saw a Fellini film or slipped into Tom Ford attire. There was a sense of confidence instilled, a confidence in being human, the confidence to find power through mistake, the confidence to admit to cease yearning for perfection. Rather, redefining perfection to the state of recognizing my humanity, my possibility. ...

PHANTASMAGORIA - The Visions Of Lewis Carroll ...

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He was 64. The playwright died Friday after a long struggle with heart troubles. Bauer's 1968 theater piece "Magic Afternoon," is seen as a masterwork in contemporary Austrian drama. Among his numerous works were a novel and scripts for television and radio.
Wolfgang Bauer: "...As long ago as 1963 a fellow-artist and I imagined the horrible future of a free-lance artist. The topic of our discussion was not so much finances as the necessity of letting go and totally abandoning oneself. At the time I had the idea of inventing something like a "fitness training of geniuses". In retrospect I must say that I know very few artists who have persevered in this imaginary training programme. Gottfried Helnwein is one of them." ...

심히 불편한 사진
도대체 이 사진 작가는 어떻게 접하게 되었을까나?
기억이 잘 안난다.
필시 한창 사진에 대해 끄적끄적일 때,무슨 책에서 본 것 같다.
그리고는 인터넷에서 뒤지다가 그의 공식 홈페이지에 가보게 된 것 일테고. 공식 홈페이지
또한 거기서 독일의 음산한 음악을 하는 밴드인 '램스타인'의 앨범 표지 사진을 이 사람이 한 사실을 알게 되었다.
바로 이 사진들이다. 흠..뭔가 섬뜩하지 않는가?
밴드 음악 성격이랑 딱 부합하는 그런 사진들이다. ...