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Stefan Heyne: Echolot
Opening: 8 p.m., April 12
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...
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Petra Karadimas Sexy Helden, starke Action
The cityscapes and sceneries in Petra Karadimas' photographic works are of suggestive force. Her unique image language at the intersection between photography and painting unsettles the ever-present gaze on familiar everyday situations towards a slight displacement of perception.
Petra Karadimas places the reality manipulating aspects of photography in the center of her endeavors. She eliminates the photographic grain by using a digital brushstroke, replacing the photographic trace through painterly means and classical compositions. Her images of seemingly remote situations -east-german buildings, billboard ads, construction fences, shrubb...
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