A painting by the Ireland-based Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein (who hosted Marilyn Manson's wedding in his Co Tipperary castle last weekend), sold for €8,000 ...

a critical exploration of contemporary painting by international and Irish artists.
Open for viewing from Saturday 3rd December
The December exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery is aptly named. A Moment in Time will present a snapshot of contemporary painting and its infinite possibilities and variations. The private view for A Moment in Time on December 6th promises to be a glittering occasion as new work by over eighty Irish and International artists will be shown for the first time and the invited audience will have the opportunity to mingle with both artists and serious art collectors. ...

Ah oui tiens en passant, je cherchait des images sur google et je tombe sur un site d'un artiste Autrichien Gottfried Helnwein , Absolument génial, et je me dit que Vlao va pouvoir critiquer autre chose que l'art de clément mdr.... ...

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...oder auf die Serie "Irische Landschaften", die, im extremen Querformat auf richtersche Art gemalt, dem gegenwärtigen Wohnsitz des Künstlers Reverenz erweist - mittels elegischer schafreicher, aber menschenleerer Panoramen. Hier ist einmal übermäßig offensichtlich, was Gerhard Richter als bestimmenden Einfluß auf seine eigenen Bilder stets behauptet hat: das Vorbild der Romantik. ...

Die Freunde der "Nil-Gesellschaft" treffen sich im Helnwein Schloss in Irland:
Alfred Biolek, Alice Schwarzer, Antje Vollmer, Renate Gruber, Bettina Flittner, Gottfried, Renate, Amadeus, Cyril und Kojii Helnwein... ...

"Ireland is in possession of a sanity that is more potent than most places. Everything that is so painstakingly important in other places seems to brake there, and you’re left more or less with just yourself. And although you might feel slightly naked for the first few hours or days, wanting to know where to put your hands, what to worry about, whom to exchange arrogant glances with, you can’t really help but feel some kind of massive, benevolent relief."
-Mercedes Helnwein. ...

Nun findet sich die Antwort auf die Frage nach dem Verbleib Gottfried Helnweins in massiven Schlagzeilen der “New York Times” und der “Los Angeles Times”. “Ein Aufstand der Farben, exzentrisch, anachronistisch, wundersam”, jubeln die Kalifornier. Die Kollegen von der Ostküste schreiben von “ausserirdischer Faszination und wilder Extravaganz”. Gottfried Helnwein hat an der von Placido Domingo geleiteten Oper von Los Angeles den “Rosenkavalier” von Richard Strauss ausgestattet. Maximilian Schell inszenierte, Kent Nagano dirigierte, und die Premiere zu Wochenbeginn geriet dem alten Fuchs Domingo zum Clou der amerikanischen Opernsaison. Schon in den Überschriften aber wird klargestellt, wer hier der Chef war: Gottfried Helnwein nämlich, geboren in Wien als Sohn eines Postbeamten, Konzeptkünstler, Fotograf, Filmer, unvergleichlich resistent gegen Katalogisierungen. ...

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Tipperary is set to host rock wedding of the year later on this
month.
The eccentric Marylin Manson will tie the knot in the County after
his close friend, artist Gottfried Helnwein offered him the use of his
Tipperary castle. ...

The Fenton Gallery in 2005 will include exhibitions from artists , Gottfried Helnwein, Basil Blackshaw, William Crozier, Katherine Boucher Beug, Billy Foley, Hughie O'Donoghue and Patrick Scott. ...

Helnwein is best known for his courageous work depicting wounded children, as well as performances in public spaces. These paintings are a departure from that work in that they suggest a tranquillity that is not evident in much of his output.
Senator Martin Mansergh officially launched the exhibition and praised the artist by describing the paintings as: "memorable and awe-inspiring." The Senator went on to say; "I think we should be in no doubt that we are in the presence of the work of an artist of exceptional stature... ...

This is a list of visual artists born or working mainly in Ireland along with a list of critics, collectors and curators who have had an influence on Irish visual arts. ...

One man show
‘Helnwein in Tipperary’ is an exhibition of large-scale landscape painting by Austrian-born Artist Gottfried Helnwein in the South Tipperary Arts Centre, Nelson Street, Clonmel. The exhibition opens Friday, 26th November and runs until Saturday, December 18th.
Internationally respected, Gottfried Helnwein spends much of the year in his home and studio in Ireland. The exhibition at the Arts Centre features three large scale landscapes around Tipperary including the Nire Valley and Tullamaine.
The public is welcome to the official opening at 8 p.m. on Friday night which will be performed by Senator Martin Mansergh. ...

Austria has been one of the main hubs of European culture, especially in music and art. The artists are not always conventional or conformist. Like the recent prizewinner for literature, Elfriede Jelinek, some of Helnwein’s work, which takes an uncomfortable look at Austria’s past and the unhealthily close relationship between Church and Sate in the Nazi era, has caused controversy.
I think we should be in no doubt that we are in the presence of the work of an artist of exceptional stature, who is greatly in demand, both for different commissions, but also for set designs for stage and film. ...

Helnwein:
"...When I look at a work of Art I ask myself: does it challenge me, does it touch, move or inspire me? Do I learn something from it, does it startle or amaze me - do I get excited, upset?
That is the test any artwork has to pass: can it create an emotional impact on a human being even when he has no education or any information about art? I’ve always had a problem with art that you can only understand if you have a degree in art history, and I have a problem with theories in general. Most of them are bullshit anyway.
Most critics and theorists have little respect for artists, and I think the importance of theory in art is totally overrated. Real art is self-evident. Real art is intense, challenging, enchanting, exciting and unsettling; it has a quality and magic that you cannot explain. Like the Blues, a poem of Rimbaud or Rembrandt's late self-portraits.
Art is not logic, and if you really want to experience it, your mind and rational thinking will be of little help. Art is something spiritual that you can only experience with your senses, your heart, your soul. Think of Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Mozart, Howling Wolf, Goya, Marilyn Manson, Bukowski or Robert Crumb - do you need to know the theories that some busybodies might attach to their art in order to experience it?
Marcel Duchamp said: "The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity."
These two poles is all you need. ...

"I think we should be in no doubt that we are in the presence of the work of an artist of exceptional stature.
Exhibitions of his work have been shown all over the world. He is based in Ireland and in Los Angeles, retaining close contact of course with his Austrian homeland and the German-speaking world. He was recently granted Irish citizenship." ...

The recent landscape show by Gottfried Helnwein at the Crawford Gallery in Cork contained a homage to Friedrich’s The Wreck of the Hope, while the current Walker & Walker exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy features a three-dimensional recreation of his work Wanderer in the Mist. Because it is a show culled from the extensive collection of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie, A German Dream does not include these two key works, both of which are in Hamburg’s Kunsthalle, but the six works that are included still offer a tantalising taster. They point the way to understanding Friedrich’s iconic idealism and energy, but what they highlight even more pointedly is the need for a comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work. ...

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