Excerpts
from an art review by Bengt Olvang in Aftonbladet (largest
Stockholm evening paper) regarding an exhibition of
Helga Henschen at Doktor Glas Gallery 13 November 1983:
"Helga
Henschen has been compared to Picasso, but the inspiration
received from this colorful master is more in terms
of the faun-like, the satyr-like zest for life. Ther
e
is for example a drawing and a terracotta sculpture
of a wild lion playing the flute. One
of
the lions has a wreath of flowers on his head, the other
a small child between his paws. This is about life's
possibilities: even the lion-like can play the flute
and take care of children. The mighty power is not in
opposition to poetry --"
"The
remarkable thing about Helga Henschen is that she has
succeeded in introducing this unstoppable joy of life
into politics. Her childishly sincere drawings pose
the most basic questions in life to the stiff and dried-up
politicians, who normally only think in tactics and
calculations.--"
"--she
gives the viewer euphoric joy, and a very strong conviction
that this attitude to life is the only important one,
perhaps the only one worthy of a human being. --"
