Gottfried Helnwein | PRESS | English Press | INTERVIEW WITH GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN IN RUSSIAN ART MAGAZINE

cover: "Head of a Child 4"
inside: "Head of a Child 5" 2000, oil and acrylic on canvas,
and "Ninth of November Night", 1988, installation at the Museum Ludwig, cologne ...

`The Portrait Obscured,'' the current exhibit at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, where 19 artists have all but forgone the portrait entirely in their pursuit of it.
The exhibit's signature pieces are two paintings by the Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein.
A bit of perceptual sleight of hand, two seemingly blue-black canvases on close inspection reveal portraits of John Lennon and Bruce Lee.
Portraits obscured, to be sure, and perhaps a meditation on how unknowable are the famous by their famous faces. ...

...or how about odd nerdrum...or gottfried helnwein if you just wanna talk about paint handling these two are far superior...and perhaps being a child of a "ironic culture" has something to do with you liking the paintings...perhaps me being a child of a violent one has something to do with not liking them...
I understand the subjectivity in art but I was hoping we'd stop breeding new "quirku" warhols ...

The common or garden tie doesn't tend to throw up too many fashion conundrums for the casual wearer. The options are pretty simple; classic and understated or loud and hey, wacky!
But not anymore: thanks to London-based fashion terrorists, Cultural Ties, all that is about to change with a range of neckties, featuring specially commissioned work from over 80 contemporary artists. Now the sartorially discerning can choose from pink bunnies (Jeff Koons), naked ladies (Paola Gandolfi), amorphous freaks (Gottfried Helnwein) and satanic messages (David Shrigley) to mention a few.

How can one recount the Holocaust? That is certainly one of the major questions confronting any writer who tries to write on this theme. How is one to transform the horrific and inconceivable reality into fiction? How can one create a feeling of aunthenticity in the reader? How to disturb his emotional world without resorting to sentimental manipulation and how to avoid banality? ...


	20. May 2002 Fakel art magazine, Russia INTERVIEW WITH GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN IN RUSSIAN ART MAGAZINE ... http://www.fakel.org, Interview with Gottfried Helnwein


	15. May 2002 L'Espresso, Italy Italy HELNWEIN'S "HEAD OF A CHILD 4" (THE LOGAN COLLECTION) ON THE COVER OF L'ESPRESSO MAGAZINE L'ORCO IN RETE cover: "Head of a Child 4" inside: "Head of a Child 5" 2000, oil and acrylic on canvas, and "Ninth of November Night", 1988, installation at the Museum Ludwig, cologne ...


	28. March 2002 The Merkury News Jack Fischer ABOUT FACE PORTRAIT ARTISTS FIND WAYS TO DISTILL PERSONALITY BY OBSCURING `The Portrait Obscured,'' the current exhibit at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, where 19 artists have all but forgone the portrait entirely in their pursuit of it. The exhibit's signature pieces are two paintings by the Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein. A bit of perceptual sleight of hand, two seemingly blue-black canvases on close inspection reveal portraits of John Lennon and Bruce Lee. Portraits obscured, to be sure, and perhaps a meditation on how unknowable are the famous by their famous faces. ...


	19. March 2002 ARTFORUM Talk back www.artforum.com GOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS ...or how about odd nerdrum...or gottfried helnwein if you just wanna talk about paint handling these two are far superior...and perhaps being a child of a "ironic culture" has something to do with you liking the paintings...perhaps me being a child of a violent one has something to do with not liking them... I understand the subjectivity in art but I was hoping we'd stop breeding new "quirku" warhols ...


	2002 Dazed and Confused London NEVER MIND HOMER SIMPSON TIES, TRY WEARING ONE FEATURING MONKEY FUR. The common or garden tie doesn't tend to throw up too many fashion conundrums for the casual wearer. The options are pretty simple; classic and understated or loud and hey, wacky! But not anymore: thanks to London-based fashion terrorists, Cultural Ties, all that is about to change with a range of neckties, featuring specially commissioned work from over 80 contemporary artists. Now the sartorially discerning can choose from pink bunnies (Jeff Koons), naked ladies (Paola Gandolfi), amorphous freaks (Gottfried Helnwein) and satanic messages (David Shrigley) to mention a few.


	2002 Irish Times Ireland ARTICLES ABOUT HELNWEIN, IRISH TIMES from 1998 to 2001 ...


	2002 www.ybook.co.il Nava Semel Israel THE RAT LAUGHS How can one recount the Holocaust? That is certainly one of the major questions confronting any writer who tries to write on this theme. How is one to transform the horrific and inconceivable reality into fiction? How can one create a feeling of aunthenticity in the reader? How to disturb his emotional world without resorting to sentimental manipulation and how to avoid banality? ...