"Survival of the fittest" by Charles Darwin, the rule of all times, occurs in a weird way in the modern life of Istanbul: Competing for sustainable job is not preferred by lazy local people, but abusing family home as a sanctuary from fighting in the arena of prerequisites for marketable skills...
The resource of this "undeserved social well-being" is surely financed by a solidarity and cooperation between family members of unemployed work force... This protection brings tranquillity, but threathens individual competitiveness...
Now it may be usefull to remember, what Leyla Erbil, one of the best writers of modern Turkish literature, says in her novella "The Dwarf": "As soon as possible, you have wanted to get rid of your family, that was just a concrete sediment of being socially underdeveloped"... ...

Qui a-il de s'y génial? Comment peut-on oser comparer ce genre de pratique avec des artistes comme Gottfried Helnwein, qui est peu connu au Québec malheureusement. Monsieur Henlwein arrive à faire des peintures immenses qui couvrent presque les murs de cathédrales autrichiennes à elles seules, et nul ne sait dire s'il s'agit de photographies ou peintures... Bref, il y a de tous les goûts dans la nature mais il y a aussi différents niveaux de talent. Riopelle est l'un de nos plus grands peintres au Québec, je le sais, mais je ne saurais dire pourquoi. Il y a peut-être matière a réflexion. Après plusieurs cours sur l'histoire de l'art, je connais assez bien le parcours artistique de Riopelle. Il a signé le Refus Global et ainsi donné de nouvelles directions à l'art. ...

Das von Peter Hajek 1984 inszenierte Porträt begibt sich auf die Spuren von Helnweins Leben und Werk. Er wurde in den 1970er-Jahren vor allem durch seine hyperrealistischen Bilder von verwundeten und bandagierten Kindern bekannt und hat sich seit den 1980er-Jahren vor allem der Fotografie und großformatigen Installationen im öffentlichen Raum – meistens mit einem sozialen oder gesellschaftspolitischen Anliegen – zugewandt. Kinder, oft seine eigenen, sind auch der Rahmen, in dem Helnwein bei der Arbeit, im Familienverbund oder beim Spiel präsentiert wird und durch welchen er in dieser Mischform aus fiktivem Dokument und realer Fiktion sowohl künstlerisch als auch sozial kommuniziert ...

INT. OBSERVATION TOWER - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
DEREK HELNWEIN (70), Director of the National Security Agency, stands over an advanced control panel.
Hardened by years of military experience, Helnwein never shows emotion.
Helnwein looks over CAPTAIN BATES’(30) shoulder, who is seated at a computer terminal.
HELNWEIN
Bates, are we operational yet?
BATES
Fully, sir.
HELNWEIN
Let them out.
BATES
Yes, sir. ...

Many disturbing images by German artist Gottfried Helnwein are reminiscent of the experiments in La Jetée. Learn more about his work. ...

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 Legion of Honor (of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums), 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.
But the most haunting images may be the ones of children who seem strangely oblivious to the adult gaze. Some of Helnwein's children peer right past the onlooker. Others sleep, dreaming of anything but us behind their silky eyelids. And some, like the enormous, half- shadowed "Head of a Child" at the Legion, see straight through us with cloudless, infinite blue eyes.
Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 17. November 2004
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. さてさて。旅行記めいたものを書きますと長くなり、途中でやめてしまうことが多いので、今回の旅行の中で印象に残った点を、つらつらと書いてみたいと思います。ゴットフリード・ヘルンウｪイン（Gottfried Helnwein）。この片仮名表記で合ってるかどうかわかりませんが。オーストリア人アーティストです。現在のコンテンポラリーでは、彼の作品展「The Child」が開催されていました。 ...

While tracking down alligators, Mr. Penn discusses the state of affairs in Hollywood and Washington. ...

2 Documentary
2 Short

Genre: Documentary [top]
1. Ninth November Night (2004) [Actor]
2. Helnwein (1984) (TV) [Actor]
Genre: Short [top]
1. Ninth November Night (2004) [Actor]
2. Doppelherz (2003) (V) [Art Director] ...

The original painting can be seen at his exhibit "Modern Sleep" at Modernism in San Francisco through December 23rd. ...

Any chance of a book on Gottfried Helnwein? Incredible artist. Quite breath-taking. His website is a treasure trove of images and information. Maybe add it to your 'Related Links' section?
www.helnwein.com ...