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2nd August 2004
eircom.net
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.....Almost 'autobiographical landscapes' the paintings in this exhibition by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwine broadly outline the migrations he, and his family, have made from his native Vienna, through Germany, to America and Ireland, his family home since 1997. Yet these landscapes also mark a return to his earliest artistic inspiration. Helnwein's meticulous Irish lanscapes are unashamedly aesthetic and the typically epic, but not inhuman scale, imitates the subject matter with each painting seeming to breathe a sense of a year well advanced, after the effusive growth and floral displays of May. Sunset beckons here and with it, Romanticism.
Super seductive, hyperrealist images these paintings are a frelatively late developmet in his near 40 year career and well worth taking some time out to see.
eircom.net,
Anon,
2nd August 2004
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