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The Kilkenny Arts Festival 2001
Curator: Claire O'Donoghue
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN
Exhibition - catalogue
One man show, Butler House, Kilkenny
Installation in the Kilkenny city center
Introduction by Claire O'Donoghue
Essay by Mic Moroney

The Irish Times (frontpage) | 07.Aug.2001
Workmen finish one of a series of prints measuring 9.3 metres by 6.2 metres by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.The prints of Kilkenny children will hang on buildings in Kilkenny as parts of its arts festival beginning on August 10th.

Aiden Dunne
The Irish Times | 01.Aug.2001
While it is a painting, Epiphany is typical in its almost interchangeable use of photography and painting: both played their part in the achievement of the eventual, quasi-photographic image. He is a fine photographer, and his photographic portraits of Kilkenny children (enlarged to an enormous scale) form one strand of his festival exhibitions. The careful adaptation of existing imagery is another trait, and his references extend back through fine art history as well as history itself...

Irish Indipendent (news) | 01.Aug.2001
RECORD numbers are expected to visit Kilkenny's art festival over the next week.
Organisers say attendance at shows and exhibitions on the first weekend indicates that up to 80,000 people will have visited by the time the 10-day event finishes next Sunday.
The main talking point of the festival is a series of paintings including one by world-renowned Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein, who took an old photograph of Adolf Hitler surrounded by children and replaced it with the Madonna and Child surrounded by SS officers.
Heinwein's paintings are hanging on a number of buildings around the city, including Kilkenny Castle, the National Irish Bank and the Watergate Theatre.
Funding for the festival is the highest to date with the organisers receiving more than £400,000.

Patricia Deevy
Irish Independent | 01.Aug.2001
Once an agitated spectator wondered how an apparently nice man could produce such disturbing imagery. Helnwein replied: "What bothers you is the pictures that get triggered in your own head." Perusing a catalogue of his work in preparation for a meeting is a journey through disgust, fear, fascination and admiration to finally - almost - attachment.

Sean Keane
Kilkenny People | 27.Jul.2001
A major controversy has erupted over plans to hang huge paintings outside City Hall during the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Examples of the paintings to be displayed were shown to members of Kilkenny Corporation on Monday night and it sparked uproar in the chamber.
Cllr Paul Cuddihy rose to his feet and said that the city would be seen to be promoting the people responsible for the Second World War and the Holocaust if paintings like the one handed out at the meeting were allowed to be displayed outside City Hall.
He was referring to a controversial picture by Gottfried Helnwein, the internationally acclaimed Austrian artist who wants to display his work in the city during the Arts Festival. Arts Minister, Sile de Valera had already given the green light to hang some of his latest pieces from the front of Kilkenny Castle.

DISPUTE OVER NAZI IMAGES IS RESOLVED
Chris Dooley
The Irish Times | 26.Jul.2001
A former mayor of the city, Mr. Paul Cuddihy, objected to a proposal to display one of the images on the City Hall after it was shown to members of Kilkenny Corporation on Monday night. After visiting the artist at his home in Co.Tipperary, however, the Fine Gael councillor said Mr. Helnwein was an "astonishinlgy good" artist whose works would have a "huge visual impact" on next month's festival.

Chris Dooley (South East Correspondent)
The Irish Times | 18.Aug.2001
Gardaí (the Irish police) are investigating attacks on two images by the controversial Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, displayed as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Ireland on Sunday | 26.Aug.2001
A controversial "Nazi" image by artist Gottfried Helnwein was daubed with red paint last week as Kilkenny Arts Festival entered its final days. Another Helnwein print, of a local girl, was set on fire and extensively damaged.


		10. Август 2001 Kilkenny, Ireland HELNWEIN AT THE KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL 2001 one-man show at the Butler House and large Installations in the medival city center of Kilkenny


		THE KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL CATALOGUE The Kilkenny Arts Festival 2001 Curator: Claire O'Donoghue GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN Exhibition - catalogue One man show, Butler House, Kilkenny Installation in the Kilkenny city center Introduction by Claire O'Donoghue Essay by Mic Moroney THE KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL CATALOGUE


		EYE TO EYE WITH THE FACE OF A KILKENNY CHILD The Irish Times (frontpage) \| 07.Aug.2001 Workmen finish one of a series of prints measuring 9.3 metres by 6.2 metres by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein.The prints of Kilkenny children will hang on buildings in Kilkenny as parts of its arts festival beginning on August 10th. The Irish Times (frontpage) \| 07.Aug.2001


		CUTTING EDGE Aiden Dunne The Irish Times \| 01.Aug.2001 While it is a painting, Epiphany is typical in its almost interchangeable use of photography and painting: both played their part in the achievement of the eventual, quasi-photographic image. He is a fine photographer, and his photographic portraits of Kilkenny children (enlarged to an enormous scale) form one strand of his festival exhibitions. The careful adaptation of existing imagery is another trait, and his references extend back through fine art history as well as history itself... The Irish Times \| 01.Aug.2001


		THOUSANDS EXPECTED TO ATTEND ARTS FESTIVAL Irish Indipendent (news) \| 01.Aug.2001 RECORD numbers are expected to visit Kilkenny's art festival over the next week. Organisers say attendance at shows and exhibitions on the first weekend indicates that up to 80,000 people will have visited by the time the 10-day event finishes next Sunday. The main talking point of the festival is a series of paintings including one by world-renowned Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein, who took an old photograph of Adolf Hitler surrounded by children and replaced it with the Madonna and Child surrounded by SS officers. Heinwein's paintings are hanging on a number of buildings around the city, including Kilkenny Castle, the National Irish Bank and the Watergate Theatre. Funding for the festival is the highest to date with the organisers receiving more than £400,000. Irish Indipendent (news) \| 01.Aug.2001


		CHILDHOOD DEFILED, STARKLY PORTRAYED Patricia Deevy Irish Independent \| 01.Aug.2001 Once an agitated spectator wondered how an apparently nice man could produce such disturbing imagery. Helnwein replied: "What bothers you is the pictures that get triggered in your own head." Perusing a catalogue of his work in preparation for a meeting is a journey through disgust, fear, fascination and admiration to finally - almost - attachment. Irish Independent \| 01.Aug.2001


		A HANGING MATTER? Sean Keane Kilkenny People \| 27.Jul.2001 A major controversy has erupted over plans to hang huge paintings outside City Hall during the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Examples of the paintings to be displayed were shown to members of Kilkenny Corporation on Monday night and it sparked uproar in the chamber. Cllr Paul Cuddihy rose to his feet and said that the city would be seen to be promoting the people responsible for the Second World War and the Holocaust if paintings like the one handed out at the meeting were allowed to be displayed outside City Hall. He was referring to a controversial picture by Gottfried Helnwein, the internationally acclaimed Austrian artist who wants to display his work in the city during the Arts Festival. Arts Minister, Sile de Valera had already given the green light to hang some of his latest pieces from the front of Kilkenny Castle. Kilkenny People \| 27.Jul.2001


		GARDAÍ INVESTIGATE KILKENNY ART ATTACKS Chris Dooley (South East Correspondent) The Irish Times \| 18.Aug.2001 Gardaí (the Irish police) are investigating attacks on two images by the controversial Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, displayed as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival. The Irish Times \| 18.Aug.2001


		PAINTING DAUBED Ireland on Sunday \| 26.Aug.2001 A controversial "Nazi" image by artist Gottfried Helnwein was daubed with red paint last week as Kilkenny Arts Festival entered its final days. Another Helnwein print, of a local girl, was set on fire and extensively damaged. Ireland on Sunday \| 26.Aug.2001