Gottfried Helnwein: Sleep of Reason

This is the first large-scale survey of the work of artist Gottfried Helnwein, who is known for his hyper-realistic images and his photo portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Marilyn Manson. In these recent, more provocative images, Helnwein articulates themes of violence and abuse. The iconography of children, from the innocence of the early years to young girls taking up guns, shows differentiated facets of the soul.Above all, the culture of European Romanticism, with its abysses of the soul lost in nightmares, provides Helnwein with motifs which act in their own dramaturgy of fear and cruelty.
ISBN 9788836648092. Silvana Editoriale. pb. 160 pages, 100 colour ills. 24.1 x 29.9 cm. .
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