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THE HELNWEIN RETROSPECTIVE AT THE STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM ST. PETERSBURGThe Marble Palace and St. Michaels palaceAlexander Borovsky (Curator for Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg) Helnwein 09. June 1997 |
| Helnwein Monograph, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg texts by: Alexander Borovsky Curator for Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Статья А.Д.Боровского - THE HELNWEIN PASSION Peter Selz Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley. Former Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum. HELNWEIN: THE ARTIST AS PROVOCATEUR Klaus Honnef Curator for Contemporary Art at Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn THE SUBVERSIVE POWER OF ART Evgenija Nicolaevna Petrova Chief Curator of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg THE METAPHORICAL PRINCIPLE OF GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN |
| Gottfried Helnwein. The State Russian Museum. St.Petersburg. Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum. 1997 |
 | Helnwein Retrospective 1997
The State Russian Museum St. Petersburg St. Michaels Palace Kindskopf (Head of a Child) |
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THE HELNWEIN PASSION 1997Helnwein Monograph, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Alexander Borovsky Curator for Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg I'll never forget the sensation I had at the unveiling of Gottfried Helnwein's "Kindskopf" in the Russian Museum. And not just because this enormous canvas (six metres in height, four in breadth), well-known from reproductions, seemed to operate in a whole new way in the real, quasi-monumental space of the museum's "Concrete Hall", originally intended for the demonstration of gigantic sculptural compositions. I realised that I was looking at the inner content of this innovative picture from a whole new point of view. ... |
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HELNWEIN - The monograph - State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 1997The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Monograph texts by Alexander Borovsky, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art Peter Selz Klaus Honnef William Burroughs Heiner Müller => HELNWEIN - The monograph - State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
 | Head of a Child 1991
Studio Cologne, Germany |
 | Kindskopf (Head of a Child) at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 1997
400 cm x 600 cm oil and acrylic on canvas Preparation for the Gottfried Helnwein Retrospective |
 | Kindskopf (Head of a Child) 1991
600 cm x 400 cm oil and acrylic on canvas |
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