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Cooperation with German playwright Heiner Müller and choreographer Hans Kresnik on a play about Antonin Artaud.
Heiner Müller says about Helnwein: "How does a friendly person like Helnwein stand making his - excellent - painting into a mirror of the terrors of this century? Or is it that he can't stand not doing it?"


Atelier Helnwein
Schloss Burg Brohl
31. May 1989

Pro Memoria 31. 5. und 1. 6. 1989
Am 31.5 und 1. 6. 1989 trafen sich Heiner Müller, Hans Kresnik, Gottfried Helnwein und Ismael Ivo in Helnweins Atelier auf Schloss Burgbrohl um gemeinsam ein Theaterstück über Antonin Artaud zu erarbeiten. Das Stück ist nie realisiert worden, die Arbeitsnotizen sind in Teilen erhalten.
Für die Struktur des Stückes sollten drei bis fünf Motive über Artaud als Variationen erscheinen wie bei einer Komposition. Heiner Müller sagt, er könne am besten nach Bildern schreiben. Er schlägt vor: Helnwein solle alle erdenklichen Variationen zu dem Thema zeichnen und malen, die als Inspiratione dienen sollen, und auf deren Grundlage Kresnik die Choreographie erarbeiten soll.

Gottfried Helnwein : Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud 1990
167 cm x 131 cm
oil and acrylic on canvas
Pfalzgalerie Museum, Kaiserslautern

Gottfried Helnwein : Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud 1989
90 cm x 60 cm
pastel and oil on paper

Gottfried Helnwein : Helnwein, Heiner Mueller, Hans Kresnik and Ismael Ivo
Helnwein, Heiner Mueller, Hans Kresnik and Ismael Ivo 1989
discussing a play about Antonin Artaud
Schloss Burg Brohl, Germany



Heiner Müller zu Gottfried Helnwein

BLACK MIRROR
(English translation)

A story by Stephen King. An American schoolboy, twelve or thirteen years old, fascinated in his small-town boredom by documents on the German concentration camps - the way his classmates are by Superman - the formula of his fascination: THEY JUST DID THOSE THINGS...
How does a friendly person like Helnwein stand making his - excellent - painting into a mirror of the terrors of this century? Or is it that he can't stand not doing it? Does his mirror just reflect the attitude of the century? TERROR WITHOUT END IS BETTER THAN AN ENDING IN TERROR. It comes from the over-evaluation of death, a consequence of "statistics" making it taboo. Perseus guillotines the Gorgon in the mirror -, and when the head falls, it is his own.
How many heads does a person/man have in our age of mirrors?

Gottfried Helnwein : Heiner Müller and Gottfried Helnwein
Heiner Müller and Gottfried Helnwein 1989
Basel, Switzerland



1989



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