With their current exhibition 'For Me / For You' Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery is pleased to present new works by Berlin fine art photographer Stefan Heyne. Heyne was born in 1965 in Brandenburg/Havel and studied scenography at the art school Berlin from 1987 to 1993. He was a student at the master class of Prof. Volker Pfüller. Over the past years his photographs were shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany. So far he has published two books that give an insight in his work.
Starting out as a stage designer, photography was only a medium to document his work at the theater, but soon evolved into an independend means of expression. Ambitious to overcome deficiencies of traditional photography, the artist finds his own visual language. He breakes with prevailing conventions and ironically reflects on the all...
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 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 temp...