Contemptuous about contemporary photography? Asleep looking at art photography? Bemused by the accompanying pretentious prose? How bad can it get? See below.

1 January 2011

3265, 2010 by Stefan Heyne





(Copyright - Stefan Heyne, Galerie Kaune, Sudendorf Cologne)

"Looking at his pictures reminds you of the situation of awakening, when reality slowly takes shape and everything seems a little out of focus. One wants to rub his eyes, to wipe off the remains of dreams that veil his gaze. But the cognition hoped for fails to appear. Haiziness remains persistent.

Heyne's pictures are no easy entertainment. We are spellbound by the mystical aura of his pictures, enchanting and unnerving at the same time. This conflict of curiosity and anxiety entices the beholder to abandon his usual way of perception, hoping to remove the blurry haze and discover the message behind it."

Exhibited at Galerie Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne