Gottfried Helnwein | ПРЕССА | международная пресса | "KLEINES HELNWEIN" IN THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS

"Kleines Helnwein" is a play written and directedby the Argentinian poet Rodrigo M. Malmsten.
Inspired and based on the early paintings of Gottfried Helnwein
First performance: Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires, 2000
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Autor: Rodrigo M. Malmsten
Actuan: Martín Von Tumpling, Belén Blanco
Iluminación: Alejandro Le Roux
Música: Mariano Durand, Marcelo Vignolo
Producción: Julieta Almada
Dirección: Rodrigo M. Malmsten
Esta obra formó parte del evento: III Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires ...

We have seen something of the 'look' created via Manson's collaboration with artist Gottfried Helnwein -
While the Album remains a sealed box in musical terms, Manson will wax lyrical about the inspirations and influences that helped shape it. There are the people - as well as Calloway, he nods to Oscar Wilde and the loose collective of radical artists and agents provocateurs - collaborator Helnwein among them - who were dubbed the Viennese Actionists.
" The Grotesque Burlesque takes what we've done in the past and brings it to a completely different level. This is making everyone a part of your creation. It's realising that art is more than music, more than people listen to it, more than people who play it - it is the combination of all that.
Gottfried Helnwein is someone who knows how to artfully provoke. He would take some of his creations and he'd bring them out into the streets. It became an instance where people wouldn't know what was the show and what wasn't the show. That's such a beautiful thing. It's like being in the playground - you're not really sure who's on what team, or what the real objective is. ...

Wie ist die Zusammenarbeit mit Marilyn Manson entstanden?
GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN: Ich habe ihn vor einem Jahr kennen gelernt, seitdem arbeiten wir an verschiedenen Projekten. Unter anderem an Videos und Street Performances. Wir planen auch, gemeinsam eine Installation in Wien zu machen. ...

Art critic Klaus Honnef lauded Helnwein as "the legitimate air to Beuys and Warhol, " highlighting his ability to defy the artistic boundaries of the social and political realm."
After posing for a photographic portrait in 1990, William Burroughs said of Helnwein’s work, " You can’t show anyone anything he hasn’t seen already, on some level any more than you can tell anyone anything he doesn’t already know. It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition to show the viewer what he knows but does not know what he knows. Helnwein is a master of surprised recognition. ...

Outside the Osbournes’ mansion last week, Manson and modernist Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein premiered two paintings from a collection that will be used as The Golden Age Of Grotesque’s artwork and will travel with the singer. Inspired by the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, the grotesque of vaudeville and the erotic art movement in Weimar Berlin, the pieces are disturbing portraits of Manson wearing the classic Mickey Mouse ears hat.
"This is an image of innocence and an image of childish nightmares," Manson explained. "This is, to me, growing up in America, what I saw in entertainment and the contrasting extremes of beauty and ugliness. ...

Outside the Osbournes' mansion last week, Manson and modernist Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein premiered two paintings from a collection that will be used as The Golden Age of Grotesque's artwork and will travel with the singer. Inspired by the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, the grotesque of vaudeville and the erotic art movement in Weimar Berlin, the pieces are disturbing portraits of Manson wearing the classic Mickey Mouse ears hat.
"This is an image of innocence and an image of childish nightmares," Manson explained. "This is, to me, growing up in America, what I saw in entertainment and the contrasting extremes of beauty and ugliness. ...

"Kids and guns is a big issue in society today, especially in America," explains Helnwein," One aspect of these pictures refers to the Columbine High School shootings, when Manson was blamed. And now the whole country is going to war. America worships guns. Every day you hear of child abuse. There are these cases with the Roman Catholic church. We're living in a crazy society. I believe a true artist will always reflect the state society is in." ...

Die Symboltiefe des Stücks versucht die Inszenierung in albtraumartig verrätselten Bildern szenisch einzufangen. Deren Motive erinnern bisweilen an die bedrückende Atmosphäre mancher Zeichnungen von Helnwein: die grausig auf dem Bett der Kaiserin herumlungernde Falkenfigur etwa, mit ihrer langen, gebogenen Schnabelnase, die surreal kahlen Räume, das klinisch von oben einfallende Licht sowie allerlei über die Bühne schleichende, zwielichtige Statistengestalten mit gipsernen Tiermasken ...

Gottfried Helnwein's extensive 1997 retrospective at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg gave visitors an overview of his work going back to his street actions in Vienna in the 1970s, his grimacing iconic self-portraits that suggest self-mutilation, and on to his menacing canvases depicting the evils of the Third Reich.
He has worked as a painter. draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor and performance artist. His work is consistently concerned with psychological anxiety.
In his new series of paintings, done in somber monochrome blues, he continues to work with singulae sense of suspense and mystery. ...

Although cartoons and caricatures have played an important role in Western culture since the Middle Ages, the development of the comic strip and comic books are a unique American phenomenon and has contributed significantly to American visual culture.
...Gottfried Helnwein's "American Prayer," which is a large hyper-realistic painting of a boy kneeling in bedtime prayer to a large and looming Donald Duck.
About Helnwein's piece: Clark says, "In many ways, this is the signature piece for this whole show, because it shows how cartoon imagery has entered our culture, our world, our daily life." ...

(Illustrated Books).
Publishers Weekly; January 27, 2003
... paintings of Braque, Dali and Degas, and even an occasional piece of sculpture. Baudelaire's "Giantess" mirrors Gottfried Helnwein' s Lulu, a giantess in garters--other juxtapositions are more of an artistic stretch. As a stimulus to sexual reflection ... ...

COMIC RELEASE: NEGOTIATING IDENTITY FOR A NEW GENERATION
The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery
Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland
Through March 21
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Mickey: So, uh, guys, it's a small world after all, don't ya think?
.
Spider-Man: Um, yes. I never really believed I'd ever be in a museum, sharing wall space with you, Donald Duck, or even really with Superman or that weird Ghost World guy.
.
Daniel Clowes: Hey, I'm right here. I can hear you perfectly well. And it's not just me; there are other alternative comics artists here, too, like Joe Sacco and Chris Ware. We can't believe our stuff is even on the wall, let alone alongside real artists like Barry McGee, Inka Essenhigh or Gottfried Helnwein.
.
Gottfried Helnwein: Yes, it's quite a mix. I'm not sure what I think about it. After all, I borrow imagery from comics, and I really appreciate the do-it-yourself ethic of 'zine editors...but still, I am a painter and my paintings really do belong in a museum. You guys belong in books, in comic book stores.
.
This fictional dialogue isn't too far-fetched from the one that the curators of Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation hope visitors will engage in when they visit the show. Curators Vicky A. Clark, Barbara Bloemink, Ana Merino and Rick Gribenas know that this smart and intriguing collection of comics, both mainstream and alternative, 'zines and fine art is about dialogue in more ways than one.
...

The child stares out from the publicity photos, skin white with dust and eyes expressionless. In a society fluent in the language of news media it's almost impossible not to interpret the blank face of Gottfried Helnwein's photo Child1:
it becomes a symbol of lost innocence and silent accusation.
The show this image promotes, Close Your Little Eyes, is a music theatre-installation devised by composer and director Max Lyandvert. Taking as its starting point a lullaby from the Vilnius Ghetto, it juxtaposes visual and sound images with music scored for 16-voice children's choir, string quartet and soprano soloist. ...

The Rules of Attraction promotional campaign skirted with controversy on more than one occasion, but there's a story that remains largely untold.
Helnwein:
Two images I could not forget - the rape scene and the suicide of that girl in the bath tub - very startling and so different than anything you have ever seen about these subjects on film.
There was a strange and sad beauty in the tardy, dreamlike movements of this girl with the expressionless face, slashing her wrists and slowly turning the water red. Theresa's acting, camera and music in that instant were one of the magic moments in cinema-history. ...

(Auszug)
SZ: Deutlicher: Ist die Beschäftigung mit dem Horror Edgar Allan Poes und die Beschäftigung mit dem Raben „Nimmermehr“ eine Therapie für Sie?
Lou Reed: Glaube ich nicht. Vielleicht ist es ja eine Therapie für Sie.
SZ: Grundsätzlich kann es ja trostreich sein, sich mit dem Dunklen . . .
Lou Reed: . . . das ist keine Therapie für mich. Kennen Sie Gottfried Helnwein?
SZ: Den österreichischen Künstler?
Lou Reed: Ja, Gottfried Helnwein.
SZ: Nicht persönlich. Einige seiner Sachen kenne ich, ja.
Lou Reed: Mögen Sie seine Sachen?
SZ: Nein.
Lou Reed: Aha.
SZ: Wieso?
Lou Reed: Er ist ein Freund von mir.
SZ: Ist er das?
Lou Reed: Ja. Er hat ein wunderbares Bild von Poe gemalt... ...

famed for his confronting paintings, Helnwein is as incisive with the camera as with the brush, as this portraits from the 80s attest. ...

Interscope Records
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ОЧЕРЕДНОЙ КРЕПКИЙ ПРОДУКТ раскрученного брэнда. Покупатели, уже полюбившие диски с надписью ╚Мэрилин Мэнсон╩, не будут разочарованы. В рецепт, меж тем, внесены некоторые изменения. Группу покинул Твигги Рамирез, игравший с Мэнсоном последние 10 лет, взамен ему рекрутирован Том Сколд из KMFDM, ставший также продюсером диска. Благодаря ему некоторая глэм-роковая мелодичность сменилась более быстрым и жестким звучанием, приближенным к стандартам ню-металла. Атмосфера садо-мазо-панк цирка все так же отсылает к работам Элиса Купера, а количество вокальных приемов, заимствованных у Дэвида Боуи, велико как никогда. Такими песнями хорошо иллюстрировать эпизоды драк и неромантичного секса в хороших боевиках, как это и делал Дэвид Линч в свое время. Необоримые козыри Мэнсона все на месте: превосходно прописанный звук поднимет на ноги мертвого; по-театральному исступленный вокал без единой фальшивой ноты, прямо как в опере какой; уже хорошо знакомые матерные скабрезности кочуют из припева в припев; капля иронии и ложка сатанизма маячат уже в названии и на обложке.
Кстати, над обложкой работал известный немецкий художник Готфрид Хельнвайн (www.helnwein.com), картины, написанные для буклета диска, планируется затем выставлять в музеях. Рецепт успеха Мэнсона сродни наработкам Мадонны √ оба придают огромное значение имиджу, который годами виртуозно выстраивается тысячью сложных и противоречивых приемов, оба серьезно относятся к своему ремеслу, не позволяя себе застывать на месте и расслабляться. ╚The Golden Age Of Grotesque╩ наверняка расширит армию поклонников ММ за счет самых юных любителей альтернативы, с аппетитом потребляющих ню-металл. Процесс идет без сбоев. Правда, эффект от ураганного натиска диска несколько сглаживается тем, что только самые отсталые бабушки еще способны отнестись к Мэнсону серьезно. И все же среди нынешних рок-звезд высокобюджетной лиги ему нет равных.

Marilyn Manson's new Interscope album, "The Golden Age of Grotesque," arrives this week. The set, produced by Manson and Tim Skold, is led by the single "mOBSCENE." Says Manson, "This album is about expression. The imagination and personality of the individual cannot be trapped by small minds or defined by any one person. The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That, is who we are." ...

Marilyn Manson:
About a year ago, I hooked up with Gottfried Helnwein, and he and I have been working together on various projects that, again, cross the boundaries between photography, painting, film, and installation. It's part of what I'm going to unleash and put into effect as the next couple of months unfold. It's stuff that people dont get to see anymore; it's stuff that happened in the '30s, '40s, '50s and even the '60s with the Panic Movement and Action. Gottfried really pushes the envelope, not just for shock value but for the betterment of art, to make people want to have style because they like it, not because they want to impress other people, to want to be creative because it feeds them and it makes them exist. ...


	15. Март 2003 kleines helnwein Rodrigo M. Malmsten Argentina "KLEINES HELNWEIN" IN THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS "Kleines Helnwein" is a play written and directedby the Argentinian poet Rodrigo M. Malmsten. Inspired and based on the early paintings of Gottfried Helnwein First performance: Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires, 2000 . Autor: Rodrigo M. Malmsten Actuan: Martín Von Tumpling, Belén Blanco Iluminación: Alejandro Le Roux Música: Mariano Durand, Marcelo Vignolo Producción: Julieta Almada Dirección: Rodrigo M. Malmsten Esta obra formó parte del evento: III Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires ...


	10. Март 2003 Kerrang! London Dave Everly coverstory FACE OFF "We're ready to change the face of art." Marilyn Manson We have seen something of the 'look' created via Manson's collaboration with artist Gottfried Helnwein - While the Album remains a sealed box in musical terms, Manson will wax lyrical about the inspirations and influences that helped shape it. There are the people - as well as Calloway, he nods to Oscar Wilde and the loose collective of radical artists and agents provocateurs - collaborator Helnwein among them - who were dubbed the Viennese Actionists. " The Grotesque Burlesque takes what we've done in the past and brings it to a completely different level. This is making everyone a part of your creation. It's realising that art is more than music, more than people listen to it, more than people who play it - it is the combination of all that. Gottfried Helnwein is someone who knows how to artfully provoke. He would take some of his creations and he'd bring them out into the streets. It became an instance where people wouldn't know what was the show and what wasn't the show. That's such a beautiful thing. It's like being in the playground - you're not really sure who's on what team, or what the real objective is. ...


	02. Март 2003 Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung Austria Barbara Gasser Magazin "KUNST UNTER AUSSCHLUSS DER ÖFFENTLICHKEIT IST SINNLOS" Gottfried Helnwein hat das Cover für die neue CD des Skandal-Musikers Marilyn Manson gemacht. Wie ist die Zusammenarbeit mit Marilyn Manson entstanden? GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN: Ich habe ihn vor einem Jahr kennen gelernt, seitdem arbeiten wir an verschiedenen Projekten. Unter anderem an Videos und Street Performances. Wir planen auch, gemeinsam eine Installation in Wien zu machen. ...


	01. Март 2003 Dart Magazine - Issue: Spring 2003 Craig Stephens BLOOD AND OILS / DARK CANVAS Art critic Klaus Honnef lauded Helnwein as "the legitimate air to Beuys and Warhol, " highlighting his ability to defy the artistic boundaries of the social and political realm." After posing for a photographic portrait in 1990, William Burroughs said of Helnwein’s work, " You can’t show anyone anything he hasn’t seen already, on some level any more than you can tell anyone anything he doesn’t already know. It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition to show the viewer what he knows but does not know what he knows. Helnwein is a master of surprised recognition. ...


	28. Февраль 2003 MTV asia www.mtvasia.com MANSON WANTS TO PERFORM WITH SIAMESE TWINS FOR NUDE CROWDS Manson and modernist Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein premiered two paintings Outside the Osbournes’ mansion last week, Manson and modernist Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein premiered two paintings from a collection that will be used as The Golden Age Of Grotesque’s artwork and will travel with the singer. Inspired by the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, the grotesque of vaudeville and the erotic art movement in Weimar Berlin, the pieces are disturbing portraits of Manson wearing the classic Mickey Mouse ears hat. "This is an image of innocence and an image of childish nightmares," Manson explained. "This is, to me, growing up in America, what I saw in entertainment and the contrasting extremes of beauty and ugliness. ...


	27. Февраль 2003 MTV news Corey Moss MANSON WANTS TO PERFORM WITH SIAMESE TWINS FOR NUDE CROWDS Manson and modernist Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein premiered two paintings Outside the Osbournes' mansion last week, Manson and modernist Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein premiered two paintings from a collection that will be used as The Golden Age of Grotesque's artwork and will travel with the singer. Inspired by the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, the grotesque of vaudeville and the erotic art movement in Weimar Berlin, the pieces are disturbing portraits of Manson wearing the classic Mickey Mouse ears hat. "This is an image of innocence and an image of childish nightmares," Manson explained. "This is, to me, growing up in America, what I saw in entertainment and the contrasting extremes of beauty and ugliness. ...


	08. Февраль 2003 Kerrang! London MARILYN MANSON Shocking new images revealed "Kids and guns is a big issue in society today, especially in America," explains Helnwein," One aspect of these pictures refers to the Columbine High School shootings, when Manson was blamed. And now the whole country is going to war. America worships guns. Every day you hear of child abuse. There are these cases with the Roman Catholic church. We're living in a crazy society. I believe a true artist will always reflect the state society is in." ...


	04. Февраль 2003 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Feuilleton Julia Spinola IN DER FERNE SINGEN DIE UNGEBORENEN Püppchen im Rüschenkleid trifft lebenden Putzlappen: Christoph Nel inszeniert in Frankfurt "Die Frau ohne Schatten" - Deren Motive erinnern bisweilen an die bedrückende Atmosphäre mancher Zeichnungen von Helnwein Die Symboltiefe des Stücks versucht die Inszenierung in albtraumartig verrätselten Bildern szenisch einzufangen. Deren Motive erinnern bisweilen an die bedrückende Atmosphäre mancher Zeichnungen von Helnwein: die grausig auf dem Bett der Kaiserin herumlungernde Falkenfigur etwa, mit ihrer langen, gebogenen Schnabelnase, die surreal kahlen Räume, das klinisch von oben einfallende Licht sowie allerlei über die Bühne schleichende, zwielichtige Statistengestalten mit gipsernen Tiermasken ...


	01. Февраль 2003 Art in America New York Peter Selz GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN AT MODERNISM Gottfried Helnwein's extensive 1997 retrospective at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg gave visitors an overview of his work going back to his street actions in Vienna in the 1970s, his grimacing iconic self-portraits that suggest self-mutilation, and on to his menacing canvases depicting the evils of the Third Reich. He has worked as a painter. draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor and performance artist. His work is consistently concerned with psychological anxiety. In his new series of paintings, done in somber monochrome blues, he continues to work with singulae sense of suspense and mystery. ...


	31. Январь 2003 Pittsburgh Tribune Review Pittsburgh Kurt Shaw Tribune-Review art critic ARTISTS EXPLORE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARTOON CHARACTER AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University - Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation Although cartoons and caricatures have played an important role in Western culture since the Middle Ages, the development of the comic strip and comic books are a unique American phenomenon and has contributed significantly to American visual culture. ...Gottfried Helnwein's "American Prayer," which is a large hyper-realistic painting of a boy kneeling in bedtime prayer to a large and looming Donald Duck. About Helnwein's piece: Clark says, "In many ways, this is the signature piece for this whole show, because it shows how cartoon imagery has entered our culture, our world, our daily life." ... Helnwein at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland


	27. Январь 2003 Publishers Weekly Book Review THE LOVER'S COMPANION: ART AND POETRY OF DESIRE. (Illustrated Books). Publishers Weekly; January 27, 2003 ... paintings of Braque, Dali and Degas, and even an occasional piece of sculpture. Baudelaire's "Giantess" mirrors Gottfried Helnwein' s Lulu, a giantess in garters--other juxtapositions are more of an artistic stretch. As a stimulus to sexual reflection ... ...


	23. Январь 2003 Pulp www.pittsburghpulp.com Leslie Hoffman IT'S ALL IN THE TIMING Vast comic art exhibition reveals humor and depth COMIC RELEASE: NEGOTIATING IDENTITY FOR A NEW GENERATION The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland Through March 21 . Mickey: So, uh, guys, it's a small world after all, don't ya think? . Spider-Man: Um, yes. I never really believed I'd ever be in a museum, sharing wall space with you, Donald Duck, or even really with Superman or that weird Ghost World guy. . Daniel Clowes: Hey, I'm right here. I can hear you perfectly well. And it's not just me; there are other alternative comics artists here, too, like Joe Sacco and Chris Ware. We can't believe our stuff is even on the wall, let alone alongside real artists like Barry McGee, Inka Essenhigh or Gottfried Helnwein. . Gottfried Helnwein: Yes, it's quite a mix. I'm not sure what I think about it. After all, I borrow imagery from comics, and I really appreciate the do-it-yourself ethic of 'zine editors...but still, I am a painter and my paintings really do belong in a museum. You guys belong in books, in comic book stores. . This fictional dialogue isn't too far-fetched from the one that the curators of Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation hope visitors will engage in when they visit the show. Curators Vicky A. Clark, Barbara Bloemink, Ana Merino and Rick Gribenas know that this smart and intriguing collection of comics, both mainstream and alternative, 'zines and fine art is about dialogue in more ways than one. ...


	20. Январь 2003 The Sydney Morning Herald SYDNEY FESTIVAL Harriet Cunningham HOLOCAUST, THROUGH A CHILD'S EYES A dark new stage production mixes images of innocence and brutality The child stares out from the publicity photos, skin white with dust and eyes expressionless. In a society fluent in the language of news media it's almost impossible not to interpret the blank face of Gottfried Helnwein's photo Child1: it becomes a symbol of lost innocence and silent accusation. The show this image promotes, Close Your Little Eyes, is a music theatre-installation devised by composer and director Max Lyandvert. Taking as its starting point a lullaby from the Vilnius Ghetto, it juxtaposes visual and sound images with music scored for 16-voice children's choir, string quartet and soprano soloist. ... SYDNEY FESTIVAL, The Sydney Opera House, Australia


	19. Январь 2003 Hotdog Paragon Publishing, Paragon House, London Interview by Tristan Burke THE GENIUS OF HELNWEIN Hutdog talks to Gottfried Helnwein;the artist behind the greatest poster never sold. The Rules of Attraction promotional campaign skirted with controversy on more than one occasion, but there's a story that remains largely untold. Helnwein: Two images I could not forget - the rape scene and the suicide of that girl in the bath tub - very startling and so different than anything you have ever seen about these subjects on film. There was a strange and sad beauty in the tardy, dreamlike movements of this girl with the expressionless face, slashing her wrists and slowly turning the water red. Theresa's acting, camera and music in that instant were one of the magic moments in cinema-history. ...


	04. Январь 2003 Süddeutsche Zeitung sueddeutsche.de Alexander Gorkow LOU REED: KENNEN SIE GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN? Lou Reed über Horror (Auszug) SZ: Deutlicher: Ist die Beschäftigung mit dem Horror Edgar Allan Poes und die Beschäftigung mit dem Raben „Nimmermehr“ eine Therapie für Sie? Lou Reed: Glaube ich nicht. Vielleicht ist es ja eine Therapie für Sie. SZ: Grundsätzlich kann es ja trostreich sein, sich mit dem Dunklen . . . Lou Reed: . . . das ist keine Therapie für mich. Kennen Sie Gottfried Helnwein? SZ: Den österreichischen Künstler? Lou Reed: Ja, Gottfried Helnwein. SZ: Nicht persönlich. Einige seiner Sachen kenne ich, ja. Lou Reed: Mögen Sie seine Sachen? SZ: Nein. Lou Reed: Aha. SZ: Wieso? Lou Reed: Er ist ein Freund von mir. SZ: Ist er das? Lou Reed: Ja. Er hat ein wunderbares Bild von Poe gemalt... ...


	2003 Black+White Australia Craig Stephens Issue 69 GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN famed for his confronting paintings, Helnwein is as incisive with the camera as with the brush, as this portraits from the 80s attest. ...


	2003 www.om.ru Russia MARILYN MANSON - THE GOLDEN AGE OF GROTESQUE Gottfried Helnwein Interscope Records **** ОЧЕРЕДНОЙ КРЕПКИЙ ПРОДУКТ раскрученного брэнда. Покупатели, уже полюбившие диски с надписью ╚Мэрилин Мэнсон╩, не будут разочарованы. В рецепт, меж тем, внесены некоторые изменения. Группу покинул Твигги Рамирез, игравший с Мэнсоном последние 10 лет, взамен ему рекрутирован Том Сколд из KMFDM, ставший также продюсером диска. Благодаря ему некоторая глэм-роковая мелодичность сменилась более быстрым и жестким звучанием, приближенным к стандартам ню-металла. Атмосфера садо-мазо-панк цирка все так же отсылает к работам Элиса Купера, а количество вокальных приемов, заимствованных у Дэвида Боуи, велико как никогда. Такими песнями хорошо иллюстрировать эпизоды драк и неромантичного секса в хороших боевиках, как это и делал Дэвид Линч в свое время. Необоримые козыри Мэнсона все на месте: превосходно прописанный звук поднимет на ноги мертвого; по-театральному исступленный вокал без единой фальшивой ноты, прямо как в опере какой; уже хорошо знакомые матерные скабрезности кочуют из припева в припев; капля иронии и ложка сатанизма маячат уже в названии и на обложке. Кстати, над обложкой работал известный немецкий художник Готфрид Хельнвайн (www.helnwein.com), картины, написанные для буклета диска, планируется затем выставлять в музеях. Рецепт успеха Мэнсона сродни наработкам Мадонны √ оба придают огромное значение имиджу, который годами виртуозно выстраивается тысячью сложных и противоречивых приемов, оба серьезно относятся к своему ремеслу, не позволяя себе застывать на месте и расслабляться. ╚The Golden Age Of Grotesque╩ наверняка расширит армию поклонников ММ за счет самых юных любителей альтернативы, с аппетитом потребляющих ню-металл. Процесс идет без сбоев. Правда, эффект от ураганного натиска диска несколько сглаживается тем, что только самые отсталые бабушки еще способны отнестись к Мэнсону серьезно. И все же среди нынешних рок-звезд высокобюджетной лиги ему нет равных.


	2003 billboard.com 'AGE' BEFORE BEAUTY Manson collaborated on the album artwork with artist Gottfried Helnwein. Plans are afoot for their work to be exhibited in museums worldwide at some point in the future. Marilyn Manson's new Interscope album, "The Golden Age of Grotesque," arrives this week. The set, produced by Manson and Tim Skold, is led by the single "mOBSCENE." Says Manson, "This album is about expression. The imagination and personality of the individual cannot be trapped by small minds or defined by any one person. The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That, is who we are." ...


	2003 Juxtapozed Magazine Jesse Hernandez MARILYN MANSON ABOUT HELNWEIN The Golden Age of Grotesque Marilyn Manson: About a year ago, I hooked up with Gottfried Helnwein, and he and I have been working together on various projects that, again, cross the boundaries between photography, painting, film, and installation. It's part of what I'm going to unleash and put into effect as the next couple of months unfold. It's stuff that people dont get to see anymore; it's stuff that happened in the '30s, '40s, '50s and even the '60s with the Panic Movement and Action. Gottfried really pushes the envelope, not just for shock value but for the betterment of art, to make people want to have style because they like it, not because they want to impress other people, to want to be creative because it feeds them and it makes them exist. ...