Hyper-realistic water-colours exhibited in public places in “over” version. Their themes? Provocative and controversial portraits of human conditions – and as the artist Gottfried Helnwein. These works often show kids who are nothing to do with the carefree and imaginative children often highlighted in urban advertising placards and displays.

Helnwein is a painter, photographer, performer and set designer and in all his works his inimitable touch stands out. To put it mildly his photographic installations are quite sensational both for their power and strong communicative impact as well as the enormous display sizes and dimensions onto which they are erected.
Making these images as large as advertising billboards certainly renders Helnwein artistic quest highly noticeable.
Look out for, among his other creations, “The Golden Age of Grotesque”, a Marilyn Manson multi-media project.