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The apple certainly didn't fall far from the tree for Austrian/Irish artist Mercedes Helnwein. The daughter of art provocateur and performance artist Gottfried Helnwein, whose controversial collaborations included works with Marilyn Manson and Sean Penn, Mercedes soon discovered creativity was flowing freely through her veins too. ...

Mercedes Helnwein, the daughter to renowned painter and art provocateur Gottfried Helnwein, showed from an early age signs of an inherited artistic talent, both as a writer and a painter. She began to exhibit after moving to LA in the year 2000. With a list of influences as varied as southern blues, turn of the century Russian literature, and 1960s comic book artists, Helnwein's work garnered high praise from the outset.
The drawings in her latest exhibition range from small, individual portraits to narrative scenes, all with a tangible sense of 'Americana' ...

Visitors to the South Tipperary Arts Centre over the past two weeks are being confronted with some striking artworks and reaction has been swift and to the point. ‘Last Chapter Of Dreaming’ the exhibition of drawings by Los Angeles-based Artist Mercedes Helnwein are a series of portraits based on the seven deadly sins and a number of larger works displaying unusual domestic events. ...

Mercedes Helnwein says: "from Robert Crumb to Alfred Kubin, and from Bukowski to the Blues [these artists] have helped push me in various directions, ultimately landing me in a style of my own."
She continues: "I think the power of visual art – what it does to the viewer, what it stirs up or lets loose – is something that can’t be transcribed into words, at least not with great accuracy. Therefore I find it hard to go into great detail about the mechanics of creating art or finding subject matter. I draw whatever amuses me at that specific moment in time. It feels good, it feels like it needs to be done – and so I indulge in it. ...

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Woman: Wie wichtig ist das Land in dem man lebt? - Renate Helnwein: Wichtig für den Seelenfrieden. Mein Land ist Irland. Ich liebe das Land und die Menschen. Es ist das erste Mal, dass ich einen Ort als Heimat empfinde. ...

Nicht nur einheimische Stars wie U2 haben vom weltweit einmaligen Modell profitiert. Auch kreative Ausländer wie Michel Houellebecq oder Gottfried Helnwein suchten Unterschlupf auf einer Insel, die nicht nur der Seele, sondern auch dem Konto gut tut. ...

The nuptials of schock rocker Marilyn Manson and burlesque queen Dita Von Teese were never going to be conventional, but as Hamish Bowles discovered as he tracked the celebrations from Los Angeles to Tipperary, they were also filled with high drama and high style.
... The following afternoon our cars are trundling through the darkening landscape to Helnwein's baronial castle, a forbidding Hammer House of Horror edifice complete with turrets, crenellations, and a lone bagpiper. ...

The String Quartet No.1 in E Minor starts like a windswept landscape – overcast and abandoned. A strong current of all four instruments introduces the theme with an unexpected immediacy and pulls you into a story of which you are about to be the author. From the headstrong first movement you’ll soon be dropped into five minutes and thirty-four seconds of someone’s bleeding heart – the second movement. Starting with a minimalistic plucking that sounds like the last raindrops of a storm, the music gracefully gives way to the slow and lulling depths of the cello. By the way, you’d be surprised how something that sounds like velvet can cut like a razor. But whatever dreams you might have lost yourself in, the third movement will wake you up. ...

DVT: I'm in London. Manson and I got married last weekend in Ireland. Our friend, the artist Gottfried Helnwein, has a castle there, which is where we had the wedding.
SP: [laughs] Did you have fun? Was it great?
DVT: I had the time of my life. I think we both did.
SP: What did you wear?
DVT: I wore a giant purple silk-and-grosgrain taffeta dress by Vivienne Westwood and a Mr. Pearl corset. I also wore a little tricorn hat from Stephen Jones. I didn't want a white wedding or a Gothic wedding. It was somewhere in between-just beautiful, rich colors everywhere. ...

CONTROVERSIAL artist Gottfried Helnwein is to exhibit a collection of his work at an Irish gallery.
Helnwein, whose work was vandalised while on display at the Kilkenny Arts festival in 2001, is to show a selection of paintings most of which focus on the childThe painter, who hosted the wedding last year of singer Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese at Gorteen Castle in Tipperary, has in the past been criticised for using Nazi and religious imagery. ...

Croí is the Irish word for heart, and is pronounced "kree". Sequoia is a native American name, it was also the name of a native American wise-man and scientist who invented a system for translating the many different languages of the Cherokee Indians. The big redwood trees of California and Oregon were named after him. ...

Some of the world's most renowned horror writers have been Irish so we suppose there must be something spooky about this fair land when the lights go out? Marilyn chose Gottfried Helnwein’s Castle Gurteen Le Poer in Co. Tipperary to exchange vows with his blushing bride. ...

bought a bow tie and a dress shirt at heathrow: a bit of last minute shopping for a black tie occasion. flew to shannon, in ireland and landed in heavy rain. picked up a disgusting light blue nissan primera from the rental desk. the woman behind the counter said, 'the car we are giving you is brand new'. i thought to reply, 'thankyou i will enjoy thrashing it into submission'.
waiting outside the castle were papanazis and a few fans braving the cold (tipperary FM had given them the tip) but all were kept away by heavy security at one end of a long, torchlit drive. there was a lone (bag)piper playing outside to welcome us. helnwein's castle is amazing: tastefully decorated with antiques and pieces of his work on walls mixed with old masters' paintings. the castle had been dressed with dark red roses everywhere. ...

A TIPPERARY community more used to hurling yesterday awoke to the fact it had hosted the €700,000-plus wedding of American shock rocker, Marilyn Manson, and his long-time girlfriend, striptease artist Dita Von Teese.Massive security marked Saturday's wedding at Gurteen Le Poer mansion outside a south Tipperary village - with the ceremony being attended by such A-list stars such as Madonna, Guy Ritchie, Johnny Depp, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Lisa Marie Presley as well as Gurteen's Austrian owner, Gottfried Helnwein.
More than 100 guests - including members of Manson's band, The Spooky Kids - attended the ceremony which, contrary to US tabloid speculation, was not based on a Gothic or anti-religious theme. But tight security kept locals and the media well away from the mansion - with Manson the target of repeated threats and hate-mail. ...

The multi-day event — held at de La Poer Castle, County Tipperary, Ireland, home of the couple's friend, controversial Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein — included a non-denominational ceremony performed by Chilean underground film director (and Manson friend) Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the bride and groom exchanged personal vows. Manson and Jodorowsky, who directed "Santa Sangre," had been working together on a movie called "Abelcain," a project that has been suspended for the time being. ...

Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson tied the knot with his burlesque bride Dita Von Teese in a secret ceremony in Tipperary last night. The couple exchanged vows after dark at a private ceremony in the home of their artist friend Gottfried Helnwein.
The stately Irish castle where Helnwein lives with his family was transformed into a gothic fortress as pals including Lisa Marie Presley, Johnny Depp, Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie arrived for the event. As darkness fell, former stripper Dita, 32, walked through the gothic arches of the castle's Great Hall to the sound of a harp - dressed in a stunning gown designed by Vivienne Westwood and corset expert Mr. Pearl.
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On December 3, 2005, Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese were married in a private, non-denominational ceremony at Helnwein's castle. The wedding was officiated by surrealist film director and comic book writer Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gottfried Helnwein was best man. They exchanged vows in front of approximately 60 guests, including Lisa Marie Presley. ...