nihansomay

well i don’t think it’s possible to describe helnwein/his works/his vision with ordinary words. so i keep myself away from an introduction text that i usually would like to put in the beginning of a post. but this time i feel like i’m not gonna be able to make a proper impression of helnwein, so i leave this to you. he’s one of the most inspirational artists(maybe the most) to me and i think william s. burroughs found a pretty good way to talk about him so i don’t have anything to do with it:

“it is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of the surprised recognition: to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows. helnwein is the master of the surprised recognition”.

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