Art at the Rudolfinum

I ventured forth on my first cultural foray here on Saturday. Long over due.

I went to the Galerie Rudolfinum, near the river, to see an art Exhibit by Gottried Helnwein, called “Angels Sleeping”, a grotesque and quite disturbing exhibit showing paintings, which looked like photographs of dead children, or seemingly dead. His artistic political statement on Children’s suffering, dying in war, and Nazism. It was disturbing on many levels although thought provoking.

The paintings themselves were amazing in that he captured these images as if they were photographs. The end of the exhibit had a room with several macabre paintings of Marilyn Manson, in various stages of outrageousness, with his signature weird one eyed contact lens, along this time, with Metal teeth. A strange dude, but his images fit in with the exhibit. His were dark. …perhaps fitting, as the last room of the exhibit, directly leading to the exit.