Jeder, der Rockmusik als Soziale Konstruktion versteht, ist hier richtig. Weiter ist Rum gut für alle Rock und Bluesinteressierten. Rum betrachtet die Welt von den 30er Jahren angefangen bis irgendwann im Jahre 2009. Es wird erklärt welchen Einfluss Robert Johnson auf Meshuggah hat und, daß der Weltenlauf die Deathmetalszene mitgestalltet. Rum zeigt anhand von Meinungen, dass Gottfried Helnwein, Elvis Presley, Nic Olivieri, Markus Lüppertz, Ian Frazer Killmister, Manfred Mörth, Tiger, Zoe Strobe, D.O.V. Sex'n einen Duft von Gemeinsamkeiten haben in allem was sie tun. ...

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When we met, the first thing Gottfried Helnwein asked me was about my childhood. Did I have a happy childhood? Literally in those words. There is a linguistic realm that is home to theme members of my generation, which supplies an instant response when the question is posed: "Thanks to Commrade Stalin for our happy childhood!"... ...

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... Terry Gilliam, Peter Chung, Gottfried Helnwein y una gran cantidad de artistas ...
Gottfried Helnwein, (1948) artista plástico Austríaco-Irlandés. ... ...

30 Porträts von "Spiegel"-Autor Helmut Sorge. Lebensläufe und Schicksale von Maria Altmann über Gottfried Helnwein bis Thomas Gottschalk und Wolfgang Petersen. Mit einem Vorwort von Arnold Schwarzenegger. ...

Auf Handke aufmerksam gemacht wurde sie offenbar vom österreichischen Künstler Gottfried Helnwein (*1948), den mit Dietrich eine enge Freundschaft verband [Mischke 2001]. Verschlungen hat sie - im Gegensatz zum Butt von Grass - seine Werke aber trotz dieser Empfehlung keineswegs:"Der neue Star der deutschsprachigen Literatur Peter Handke.." ...

Gottfried Helnwein's classic yet unnerving images transform sentimental representations of childhood into portraits of individual subjects frozen at the moment of suffering. His photo-paintings pirouette on the fine line between chocolate box pictures/excessive sentimentality and the cost to children of being treated as commodities, of suffering emotional or physical pain at a grown-up's hands.
High pictorial and technical values create compositions that recall contemporary cinema and seventeenth-century painting, expanding the treatment of time into epic. This apparent grandiosity plays against the immediacy of each suffering subject, underlining the different experience of time in childhood. Small hurts can devastate when you're a child. Big hurts stay with you for years, as survivors of Hitler's Anschluss testify.
Now, in the age of virtual use and abuse of children, Helnwein's insistence on valuing the humanity and charm of the littlest, the least powerful, offers a counterpoint to claims that suffering counts most when you're grown-up. It opens his practice into a series of pictorial mise-en-scènes, as did Rembrandt's tableaux in The Blinding of Samson (1636) or The Night Watch (1642). ...

...Of course, Man Ray's artists portraits, and his photos in general, were just brilliant, and Helmut Newton, althought better known for his nudes, also took portraits of several artists in his unique style. Phillip Hallsman's collaboration with Dali was amazing, and Gottfried Helnwein took some stunning pictures of Warhol. ...

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..There are also representative works by key twentieth century figures such as
Braque and Picasso, and works of contemporary artists like Gottfried Helnwein... ...

Künstlern wie MODE 2, die FX CREW, 3 STEPS, ART FACADE, H02, HITOZUKI, SHOK-1, KACAO 77, GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, VULCAN, 2501, SABER, CLYDE, TATS CRU, RON ENGLISH und viele mehr stellen ein weiteres Mal unter Beweis, dass es in der Welt der Wandmalerei in Mitten von Formen und Farben nur eine Grenze gibt, die des Himmels. ...

Gottfried Helnwein's The Golden Age was a centerpiece of an exhibit that drew attention to a long career of subversive art. A novice to the milieu, I was there on the whim of a friend; I've recently discovered that indulging friends was proving even more treacherous than coping with fierce women. Yet I found consolodation in the fact that the Golden Age had me transfixed. It reminded me that the darkest of fantasies tread perilously close to our real lives, stalking them with dire warnings. In the picture a little girl gazes down upon her mother's thigh as though presiding over a very private, forbidden ritual. ...

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Ripubblicato, presso Rizzoli, “Il violino di Auschwitz” della scrittrice catalana, scomparsa dieci anni fa. Un libro affascinante e coinvolgente che narra la storia (vera) di un liutaio ebreo costretto a mettersi al servizio di un comandante del terribile lager, appassionato amante della musica e degli strumenti che servono per la sua esecuzione. Desta, tuttavia, perplessità e varie obiezioni la nuova traduzione a firma di Margherita D’Amico, che appare chiaramente di seconda mano. ...

Cover: Gottfried Helnwein, The Murmur of the Innocents 3, 2009 ...

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