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11/4/2007

Stefan Heyne

Brotfabrik Galerie, Berlin

Echolot

Stefan Heyne’s pictures are far from creating projections by simply reproducing reality or from authentically documenting something "that was there" (Roland Barthes). In his delicately balanced studies of space, the relationship between image and reality is rendered highly questionable and the source of the image is often attenuated to the point of unrecognizability. Heyne seeks sites, spaces, and objects that fit his idea for an image and that lie beyond narrative situations. Fragments of seemingly simple drawers blur somewhere in a painterly distance; their vagueness and monochromatic stock create an uncanny atmosphere devoid of space and site. A crude, basic tone of melancholy permeates everything.

The radical reduction of compositional means and the consistent use of vagueness tempts the viewer to inspect the seductive surfaces closely. Heyne alters the accustomed regime of perception. The interplay between the visible and the invisible leads to an almost abstract, timeless image. Heyne crosses the boundaries between photography and painting, materiality and immateriality, the strange and the familiar by surveying spaces of memory. Interiors imperceptibly turn into exteriors and vice versa. In this exploration, art-historical relationships to Minimalism and Surrealism play a strong role.

Starting from an especially sharpened perception, Heyne traces the stereotypes, norms, and conventions of the medium of photography, undermining them with his contour-dissolving spatial configurations. He thereby sets his marked and lasting visual signs against the visual avalanche of the mass media.

After the exhibition “Fahrtenschreiber” (“trip recorder”), the BrotfabrikGalerie now presents current works by Stefan Heyne in “Echolot”.

The artist’s website: http://www.stefan-heyne.de

Opening: 8 p.m., April 12

BrotfabrikGalerie
Caligariplatz 1 - Berlin
Gallery Opening hours: daily 4 – 9 p.m.

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