"Ich habe mich immer mit dem Thema Schmerz und Gewalt beschäftigt, mit dem Holocaust, der deutsch-österreichischen Vergangenheit und mit dem Thema Kindesmisshandlung." Gottfried Helnwein.
Wahrscheinlich hat der Schauspieler Sean Penn ja Recht: Die Welt gleiche einem Gespensterhaus, sagte er einmal, und Gottfried Helnwein sei darin unser Reiseführer. Der 1948 in Wien geborene Künstler hat die Schrecken der Wirklichkeit immer wieder in alptraumähnlicher Weise aufs Papier und die Leinwand gebracht - und sie oft auch an Kindern gezeigt. Mit entstellten, vernarbten Gesichtern sehen sie uns an. Diese malträtierten Kinder wirken ohnmächtig gegenüber der Gewalt, die man ihnen antut. ...

פרוייקט מבורך של בנק הפועלים לימי החג: כניסה חינם למוזיאונים ופארקים, בחסות הבנק.
הפרוייקט יתקיים החל מן היום הראשון של חול המועד, 25 באפריל ועד ליום שישי, 29
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Gottfried Helnwein ...

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

-- and the exhibit's defacement by vandals shortly after it was unveiled.
Directed by Henning Lohner and featuring on-camera appearances by Helnwein collectors Sean Penn and Jason Lee, the documentary short is largely the product of the passion and persistence of Malibu producer Gisela Guttman. When she struggled to find a venue in Los Angeles willing to show Helnwein's large-scale installation, she decided to make a documentary instead.
The art installation, which revolves around a series of pictures of small children, was vandalized after its initial showing in Germany.
"The one thing I wanted to do is just be sure that people can see the entire installation, I just really wanted to bring it to Los Angeles, no matter how," Guttman said. "The power of those images really comes across on-screen, and that's what I wanted people to see and to think about." ...

NEWS: FILMS OF JEWISH INTEREST at AFI FEST 2004
Noted Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, obsessed with the fact that his society could ignore the deaths of six million victims, dedicates his art to Holocaust remembrance. When the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht passes without commemoration, he creates an heroic art installation. Co-stars Maximilian Schell, Sean Penn, Jason Lee.
Screens as part of the German Shorts Program, Saturday November 13 at 9:00pm and Sunday November 14 at 1:00pm ...

"Ninth November Night," the Holocaust remembrance documentary which debuted in Malibu last August in its New Malilbu Theatre engagement to qualify for Academy Award consideration, will be a featured entry in the AFI Film Festival Saturday (Nov. 13) and Sunday (Nov. 14.)
Produced by Malibu artist and curator Gisela Guttman with director/composer Henning Lohner, the film concerns Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein's lifelong dedication to artworks perpetuating awareness of Holocaust attrocities.
The documentary recently was a prize-winner at the Ojai Film Festival and is invited to the Nagoya Film Festival to be held next June as part of the World Expo in Japan as well as to the Calgary (Canada) Festival which honors films of humanitarian outreach. ...

Premier bilan de ce blog;assez fréquenté mais pauvre en coms..Comme le disait si bien Elkabach il y a quelques;Osez les coms et les femmes à poils!(je suis pas sur pour cette dernière partie mais bon...).En revanche je recois pas mal de mails,danke schon à vous donc!Et justement c'est d'un de ces mails dont je vais parler ce matin (histoire de faire peter ma science...),une jeune fille m'a remercié pour l'article sur Helnwein et demander l'adresse du site les liens ont du mal a s'afficher sur les blogs..mais passons.Elle me demandait pourquoi au début de l'article j'avais mis entre parenthéses le mot "Holocauste",ajoutez a ca une foto issu de"la passion du christ" en début de ce blog,un article sur la culture nordique...Sans m'accuser de quoique ce soit,elle trouva ca troublant (et mon humour noir ayant donné un pareil nom a mon blog,j en expliquerais la signification si vous etes sage,n'arrange rien). ...

"NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT"
2003, USA, Director/Producer: Henning Lohner; Producer: Gisela Guttman ...

Friday, October 8th, 2004
I went to the Gottfried Helnwein show at the Legion of Honor today for a class assignment. Really incredible show. His paintings are disturbing images of children in bandages, with scarification, or looking like their have experienced traumas that children their age should not have to live through. The paintings are photo realistic, similar to Gerhart Richter's paintings of newspaper clippings or portraits. They are pretty disturbing and as I looked around the room, I saw many people with hands over their faces. It's not an overt, in your face kind of disturbing, it's subtle. ...

"The Child," at the Legion of Honor (www.thinker.org), is a less lyrical experience that confronts the way that the world so glibly uses children (in advertising, in war, in religion) to achieve less-than-innocent objectives. Some of Helnwein's paintings are terrifying. Instead of poster-child perfection, we're presented with children with various deformities: wayward eyelids, lumpy defects, hideous extra folds of flesh.
Then there's Helnwein's penchant for contrasting childlike innocence with the horrors of the Third Reich. In one piece, a woman with a naked infant son, in the classic pose of the Madonna, basks in the soft-focus gaze of five men dressed in Nazi uniforms.
Thought-provoking? Very. Disturbing? You bet. Children are our sacred cows. But they grow up. In that way, they are miniature adults. Sometimes art can push us in ways that shake the status quo. ...