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. ...

Знаменитая обложка с изображением двух Микки-Маусов – это плод совместного творчества Мерлина Менсона и известного художника Готтфрида Гельвейна (Gottfried Helnwein). Два противоречивых образа – белый агнец и черный дьявол – пополнят большую серию менсоновских работ и будут, среди прочих, выставлены в тематических музеях по всему миру. ...

We have seen something of the 'look' created via Manson's collaboration with artist Gottfried Helnwein -
While the Album remains a sealed box in musical terms, Manson will wax lyrical about the inspirations and influences that helped shape it. There are the people - as well as Calloway, he nods to Oscar Wilde and the loose collective of radical artists and agents provocateurs - collaborator Helnwein among them - who were dubbed the Viennese Actionists.
" The Grotesque Burlesque takes what we've done in the past and brings it to a completely different level. This is making everyone a part of your creation. It's realising that art is more than music, more than people listen to it, more than people who play it - it is the combination of all that.
Gottfried Helnwein is someone who knows how to artfully provoke. He would take some of his creations and he'd bring them out into the streets. It became an instance where people wouldn't know what was the show and what wasn't the show. That's such a beautiful thing. It's like being in the playground - you're not really sure who's on what team, or what the real objective is. ...

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Outside the Osbournes’ mansion last week, Manson and modernist Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein premiered two paintings from a collection that will be used as The Golden Age Of Grotesque’s artwork and will travel with the singer. Inspired by the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, the grotesque of vaudeville and the erotic art movement in Weimar Berlin, the pieces are disturbing portraits of Manson wearing the classic Mickey Mouse ears hat.
"This is an image of innocence and an image of childish nightmares," Manson explained. "This is, to me, growing up in America, what I saw in entertainment and the contrasting extremes of beauty and ugliness. ...

Outside the Osbournes' mansion last week, Manson and modernist Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein premiered two paintings from a collection that will be used as The Golden Age of Grotesque's artwork and will travel with the singer. Inspired by the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, the grotesque of vaudeville and the erotic art movement in Weimar Berlin, the pieces are disturbing portraits of Manson wearing the classic Mickey Mouse ears hat.
"This is an image of innocence and an image of childish nightmares," Manson explained. "This is, to me, growing up in America, what I saw in entertainment and the contrasting extremes of beauty and ugliness. ...

Manson collaborated on the album artwork with artist Gottfried Helnwein. Plans are afoot for their work to be exhibited in museums worldwide at some point in the future. ...

lunedì, febbraio 17, 2003

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Die Symboltiefe des Stücks versucht die Inszenierung in albtraumartig verrätselten Bildern szenisch einzufangen. Deren Motive erinnern bisweilen an die bedrückende Atmosphäre mancher Zeichnungen von Helnwein: die grausig auf dem Bett der Kaiserin herumlungernde Falkenfigur etwa, mit ihrer langen, gebogenen Schnabelnase, die surreal kahlen Räume, das klinisch von oben einfallende Licht sowie allerlei über die Bühne schleichende, zwielichtige Statistengestalten mit gipsernen Tiermasken ...

The official web site including drawings, mixed-media paintings, collection of self-portraits, photography, performance, and sculpture. Some of the images might be considered disturbing. Gottfried Helnwein, , all about the artist and his works: new releases, exhibitions, galleries, drawings, paintings, photography, biography, international press articles and texts about Helnwein. NEWS | ARTIST | WORKS | TEXTS | PRESS | CONTACT | COUNTRY | COUNTRY | COUNTRY |
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