Tolerate this.
Imagine penitents scuttling down a valley of tears, as every thing around them erupts in squeals of meaty humbuckers and slithering single-coils, leaving nothing but scorched bloody earth. A cloud of burning flesh. A tremble of misshapen shadows. Everything is shot to hell. A vision of Bosch, with a backdrop by Gottfried Helnwein, and soundtracked by a tiger moon quartet called Intolerant. ...

How many art handlers does it take to hang a giant Damien Hirst painting just right? You’d be surprised. From perching a 70,000 pound Do Ho Suh ”house” into the side of the roof of a university building to de-installing Carsten Höller’s mirrored carousels to lugging a precious Gottfried Helnwein through the halls of the Russian State Museum — the professional installation of art requires a keen eye, physical precision, a practical sense of aesthetics, and the ability not to drop anything under pressure. ...

Der bekannteste Österreicher, der sich in Irland einen herrschaftlichen Wohnsitz schuf, ist der Maler Gottfried Helnwein. ...

The hyper-real piece by painter Gottfried Helnwein entitled "Head of a Child" caught the eye of Jason Handy, 34, of Miami who had to touch it to believe that it was a painting and not a photograph. Art Miami art fair open for prieview for VIP in Midtown on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 in Miami ...

Helnwein: "For me the purpose of life is learning, creating, growing and expanding. Death at times can be a nuisance, because it can be an interruption when you get something good going, when you are on a roll, like Michelangelo, Mozart or Jimi Hendrix. On the other hand, when you fuck up seriously like Hitler than death can be a blessing. For many." ...

The Helnweins are cutting a wide swath through Los Angele's various scenes - the kind of creative energy that seems to come naturally.
As children of the Austrian-Irish artist Gottfried Helnwein, siblings Mercedes and Ali experienced an unconventional and charmed upbringing. They lived in castles in Germany and Ireland, attended a private arts school in England and accompanied their father on trips to America, where they sold their drawings to hotel guests to buy stuffed animals at the gift shop.
These days, Mercedes, 31, and Ali, 29, are drawing on that background in their own artistic endeavors: Mercedes as a novelist and visual artist and Ali as a composer and musician, with an emphasis on classical music. They bring a fresh, somewhat ironic playfulness to their chosen mediums that has attracted a raucous group of young fans not typically associated with traditional galleries or classical music concerts. In this way, they stand at a colorful intersection of L.A.'s literary, pop culture, visual art and music scene. And they are rarely at rest, working on several projects at once and often collaborating with each other on videos or performances. ...

In a nod to Masterson's Irish heritage, the couple had a formal wedding at a private castle, the picturesque setting of Tipperary serving as their backdrop, during a weeklong celebration.
The groom’s brother Chris Masterson served as best man and guests included actors Ben Foster, Mike Pena and Ethan Suplee and acclaimed artist Gottfried Helnwein. ...

Cover art: Gottfried Helnwein ...

Collectors Contemporary stages up to nine exhibitions and fair participations a year featuring the likes of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Daniel Buren, Gottfried Helnwein and artists like Chris Levine and Russell Young whom it represents exclusively in the region. ...

The National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, present two shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
The Wheel (image by Gottfried Helnwein) is an unnerving new play by Zinnie Harris (Further than the Furthest Thing), directed by National Theatre of Scotland Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone. ...

The exhibition, aiming to look at the uniqueness of spaces, places, characters, and stage images created by and for Levin, the great theater innovator, is realized by Tali Itzhaki in collaboration with Gadi Dagon, Gotfried Helnwein, Michael Kramenko and Rakefet Levi. ...

cover: "I Walk Alone", mixed media, oil and acrylic on canvas by Gottfried Helnwein ...

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world. -Hannah Arendt ...

The innovative contemporary dance company known as CORE Dance Collective is making quite a name for its young – only 4 years old – self. The first company to be commissioned by the Crocker Art Museum to create a dance, CORE created a stark piece inspired by the work of artist Gottfried Helnwein, whose work is on display at the museum through April 24. ...

Individually, the paintings of Gottfried Helnwein can strike a viewer as contrived, manipulative and heartless. But put several dozen of them together, as the Crocker Art Museum has done, and they rock, shaking out the quotient of grave common concern in his private obsessions.
Helnwein deliberately evokes the disillusioned view of childhood promoted by another Viennese eminence, Sigmund Freud. But he also fingers the global entertainment industry as an infernal influence, using meticulous realism to place oddly irreal figures borrowed from Disney and anime on a common footing with his human subjects. Despite the lyrical passages in his work, Helnwein appears bent on inducing a distaste for images among consumers of them who have lost perspective on their tyrannizing power. His frequent use of nearly cinematic scale makes this shock therapy both unforgettable and hard to endure. ...

Does the face or some other aspect of the head enable it to betoken a whole individual as, say, a foot or a knee cannot? Or does the quality of scrutiny, the creative scruple an artwork registers matter most, as two Lucian Freud prints here suggest?
"Heads" does not answer such questions. Perhaps no exhibition could. But by dramatic contrasts in style - among Gottfried Helnwein, Sherie Franssen, Alex Kanevsky and others - it reopens them in lively fashion. ...

To those who maintain that art has become toothless for not asking the big questions, Helnwein stands out for having credibly staked out the moral high ground. ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Heads, a group exhibition curated by Peter Selz. This exhibition brings together a diversity of works that manifest the show’s title – and organizing theme –in unique and compelling ways. Artists exhibiting include Stephen DeStaebler, Edwige Fouvry, Sherie’ Franssen, Lucian Freud, Ann Gale, Patrick Graham, Gottfried Helnwein, Alex Kanevsky, Jim Morphesis, Nathan Oliveira and Irving Petlin. ...

Gottfried Helnwein
WHAT: The Crocker kicks off the season with a challenging exhibition of works by this Austrian-born, Los Angeles-based artist. His sometimes disturbing images address themes of inhumanity, violence and lost innocence. ...

Truth is like a lion in a cage. There’s no need to defend it — just open the door.
The artistic pursuit of truth is the driving passion of internationally renowned artist Gottfried Helnwein. His work is disturbing and controversial, because he places the lion outside of its cage, right in front of the viewer. “Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents” is a survey of a broad spectrum works by a man determined to make humanity confront itself. ...