gottfriedhelnwein

Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
23 May 2013

Künstlergespräch Gottfried Helnwein

Im Vorfeld seiner ersten großen Retrospektive führte Gottfried Helnwein ein Künstlergespräch mit Rainer Nowak, Chefredakteur "Die Presse".

(only in German at this time)

Gottfried Helnwein Retrospective Exhibition
Albertina Museum, Vienna albertina.at/jart/prj3/alberti…

This exhibition will display about 200 works from 1969 to the present.

Exhibition opening: May 24th, 2013
closes: October 13th, 2013

"Well, the world is a haunted house, and Helnwein at times is our tour guide through it. Not all of Gottfried's work is on a canvas. A lot of it is the way he's approached life. And it doesn't take someone knowing him to know that. You take one look at the paintings and you say "this guy has been around." You can't sit in a closet - and create this. This level of work is earned. As an artist my strongest reaction to Helnwein's work is that it challenges me to be better at what I do. There are very few people that achieve utter excellence in what they do. And I think that Gottfried Helnwein is certainly one of those people."

Sean Penn

17 October 2012
The Museo Nacional de San Carlos
Mexico City
HELNWEIN ONE MAN SHOW AT THE MUSEO NACIONAL DE SAN CARLOS IN MEXICO CITY

12pm - SONG OF THE AURORA, opening at Galería Hilario Galguera
6pm - SANTOS INOCENTES, opening at the Monumento a la Revolución (Monument of the Revolution)
8pm - FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY, opening at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos

www.helnwein.com/news/update/a…

The Museo Nacional de San Carlos (English: National Museum of San Carlos) is a Mexican national art museum devoted to European art, located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. The museum is housed in the Palacio del Conde de Buenavista, a neoclassical building at Puente de Alvarado No. 50, Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City. It contains works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Parmigianino, Frans Hals, Anthony Van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Auguste Rodin and other well-known European painters and sculptors.




EL MUSEO NACIONAL DE SAN CARLOS
Esta edificación está realizada en estilo neoclásico y destaca por su sobriedad y dimensiones monumentales. Un elemento notable es el patio central de forma elíptica, único en la arquitectura de la ciudad.
El Museo Nacional de San Carlos ocupa la casa del siglo XVIII que Doña María Josefa de Pinillos obsequiara a su hijo, el Conde de Buenavista. Esta construcción fue realizada por el célebre arquitecto valenciano Manuel Tolsá, quien también estuvo a cargo de obras tan importantes como la culminación de la Catedral Metropolitana, el Palacio de Minería y el Caballito, entre otras.

Thanks to everyone for the nice Birthday wishes!

I am painting flat out right now to finish all the paintings for an upcoming solo-exhibition in San Francisco, opening in 3 weeks.

Here are the details if you can make it: www.helnwein.com/news/calendar…

I hope to see some of you there.

Love,

G