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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

March 28 - March 28, 2011

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Gottfried Helnwein "Stage Fright", mixed media on canvas, 62 x 80 inches, 2003.
Since he began his career in Vienna in the late 1960s, Gottfried Helnwein has been known for his radical use of the portrait and self-portrait. His photography, paintings, and monumental installations address themes of inhumanity, violence, and the importance of personal expression with stark and probing psychological intensity. Helnwein's focus on the innocence and wonder of childhood is exemplified in paintings whose forceful imagery is rooted in the artist's upbringing in post-World War II Vienna. His was a somber childhood overshadowed by a repressed national memory, in which hope was gleaned from American culture, as represented by Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. His work has been exhibited internationally, and a major solo exhibition, "Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents," is on view at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, from January 29 through April 24, 2011. http://www.helnwein.com Gottfriend Helnwein is a Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Interdisciplinary Painting Practices San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133