Two days after the Sandy Hook school massacre, a survival gear company called Black Dragon Tactical composed a new slogan to promote sales of armored backpack inserts. “Arm the teachers,” the company declared on Facebook. “In the meantime, bulletproof the kids.”...
The question may be political, but the keenest response is to be found in a museum in Mexico City, the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, at a retrospective of paintings and photographs by the Austrian-American artist Gottfried Helnwein. Helnwein’s extraordinary work depicts the fragile innocence of children. Devoid of grown-up sentimentalism, his images can be overwhelming, especially those that show how that innocence falters in an adult world. ...


Ab 25. Mai ist anlässlich seines 65ers Gottfried Helnweins bisher größte Retrospektive im deutschsprachigen Raum geplant. "Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf seinem Frühwerk", so Schröder. Der Herbst wird von "Matisse und die Fauves" dominiert. 50 Leihgeber aus aller Welt steuern zu der großen Ausstellung bei, die rund 50 Werke von Henri Matisse sowie 100 Werke seiner Freunde zeigt. ...

Ab 25. Mai ist anlässlich seines 65ers Gottfried Helnweins bisher größte Retrospektive im deutschsprachigen Raum geplant. "Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf seinem Frühwerk", so Schröder. ...

Ab 25. Mai ist anlässlich seines 65ers Gottfried Helnweins bisher größte Retrospektive im deutschsprachigen Raum geplant. "Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf seinem Frühwerk", so Schröder. ...

Kurz vor dem Untergang kann dieser Text nur eine winzige, willkürliche Auswahl apokalyptischer Kunstwerke präsentieren, die – ob als Original oder als Reproduktion – in jedes Survival-Kit für kulturaffine prepper gehören. Ludwig Meidner, Max Beckmann, Czesław Miłosz, Gottfried Helnwein, Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Tübke, Arnulf Rainer – die Liste der Apokalypse-Künstler liesse sich fast endlos fortsetzen. Wäre da nicht das bevorstehende «Ende aller Dinge», von dem Immanuel Kant geschrieben hat, es sei «eigentlich ein Begriff, mit dem [den Mystikern] zugleich der Verstand ausgeht und alles Denken selbst ein Ende hat». ...

México, 19 Dic. (Notimex).- El arte mexicano y austriaco convive en el Museo Nacional de San Carlos de la mano de las exposiciones temporales "Metonimias", de Luis Carrera-Maul, y "Fe, esperanza y caridad", de Gottried Helnwein, que pueden ser visitadas hasta el 6 de enero y 4 de marzo, respectivamente. En el patio central del espacio museístico se exhibe el trabajo de Carrera-Maul, una instalación integrada por 12 rocas que han sido pintadas, mediante un gotero, con tinta de colores, a fin de mostrar los cambios estéticos que sufrirán día tras día. ...

It’s been a great year for documentaries, from Chad Friedrichs‘s exploding of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth to filmic glimpses into the life and work of artists including Marina Abramović, Gerhard Richter, Ai Weiwei, Wayne White, Gregory Crewdson, and Gottfried Helnwein. ...

Fe, esperanza y caridad. Gottfried Helnwein. Museo Nacional de San Carlos.
El valor de Helnwein estriba más bien en lo técnico y lo sensual. El vello de una comisura. El ir y venir entre el fotorrealismo perceptible a los dos metros y, ya de cerca, el pictoricismo matérico. La sangre que se enfurece en unos cabellos. La pálida cara infantil flotando tenue y dormida en una profunda aguamarina. ...

...el desgarrado y turbador Gottfried Helnwein; el sutil, y a momentos cruel, David Ho, y la aparentemente cotidiana, pero abismal en sus soledades, Celia Paul. En la contratapa se lee: "Este libro es un palimpsesto de sensibilidades". ...

Besonders stolz ist Haase auf ein Kinderportrait, das der österreichische Skandalkünstler Helnwein vor 21 Jahren in Bremen aufnahm. Haase: „Dieses riesige Polaroid-Foto haben mir damals meine Studenten geschenkt.“ ...

Mendelsohn would not comment on any specifics, but we've heard that the painting already is complete, and that the well-known artist Gottfried Helnwein did it. Schwarzenegger is fond of Helnwein's work, and had his landscape painting of the Mojave Desert hanging in the governor's office. ...

Auxiliary Magazine: Many pieces of your work are intimate glimpses to fascist figures and groups. Is this a theme you still feel is relevant?
Helnwein: Mussolini once said: "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power". Well, look around - does it look like there is a growing influence of bankers and big corporations on our governments and our lives? The new Fascists will not come as grim looking brutes in daemonic black uniforms and boots, they will wear slick suits and ties, and they will be smiling. ...

Helnwein hace que sus fotografías intervenidas por la pintura adquieran el sello de la crítica, de lo que revela una mirada inquisitiva ante la podredumbre de la violencia homicida. Tan es así que muchas de sus obras están manchadas de rojo, presencias infantiles que de pronto cobran la realidad del absurdo de la guerra y de sus prolongaciones actuales. ...

We see the painter and designer jousting with the lighting designer over what will prove to be Helnwein’s greatest coup de theater, a hypnotic final-act tableau of dozens of “dead children” suspended in black space. This time there can be little doubt that Helnwein’s judgment is correct; even on screen the effect is startling and eerily beautiful. ...

One of the great things about this documentary is that, while many out there might be familiar with Helnwein’s artwork or installations, they may not be familiar with where his ideas come from, or what it’s like when he works. In that way, the film is a wonderful look at a stunning contemporary artist. ...

The sets and costumes designed by the artist are indeed visually impressive, especially a haunting image of children suspended over the stage like ascending angels. ...

It’s fascinating to watch Helnwein, unaccustomed to creative compromise, navigate the details and politics of a large-scale theatrical production, whether by rolling up his sleeves to daub cobalt onto a foam boulder so that it matches a craggy Caspar David Friedrich scene or micromanaging the stage makeup. In the end, Helnwein is pleased. “It brought all of the children I have painted before together,” he says of the opera’s fourth act. “I treat the staging like a canvas, but it’s three-dimensional and everything moves.” ...

Una galería presenta el trabajo de cuatro artistas de larga trayectoria: Ray Caesar, Anita Kunz, Gottfried Helnwein y Catherine Howe. ...

When the powers behind the 2010 Tel Aviv production of Hanoch Levin's Holocaust opera The Child Dreams sought a designer, it seemed like plain sailing to bring on the Austrian provocateur Gottfried Helnwein, distinguished alumnus of what he calls "the same academy that rejected Adolf Hitler twice—which is, of course, the biggest mistake that any university has ever made in history." ...

A look behind the scenes as the Austrian artist designs an opera about the Holocaust, “The Child Dreams,” for the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. Lisa Kirk Colburn directed. ...