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

Grable 15 kilotons, Nevada, 1953 by Michael Light (born 1963)

(Copyright - Michael Light)

Michael Light (1963) has been exhibited internationally and his works are in numerous public and private collections. His archival photographic projects FULL MOON (1999) and 100 SUNS (2003) have garnered global acclaim.

Exhibited at Foundation Yours Gallery, Warsaw

Real Tennis by Elliott Wilcox

(Copyright by Elliott Wilcox)

"The exhibition PRUNE - abstracting reality focuses on the complex but intriguing relationship between realism and abstraction in contemporary photography. The exhibition includes only photographic work that is based on reality but which depicts this reality with a greater or lesser degree of abstraction. On show in the exhibition is work that first and foremost can be appreciated for its abstract, formal qualities, such as form, colour and composition. Only afterwards does the viewer recognise the subject rendered in the work. Then the viewer becomes aware of an underlying story and the concept employed by the photographer. Usually it is the information in the caption which compels the viewer to relate to the work in a new way. The exhibition emphasises that abstraction of reality is always present in photography and that there often is an underlying story which only reveals itself indirectly."

Exhibited at Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam.

early "Bilder über Landschaften" 1979-1984 from Knut Wolfgang Maron

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"The extraordinariness of Knut Maron's universe does not lie in astonishing forms or new themes. Its profound distinctiveness is not the consequence of breaking through hitherto accepted boundaries of art. Instead it results from a meditative reversion to art itself, from transcending its timeless truths."

Exhibited at Zone E, Essen

Les Vitrines #6 by Annette Kisling

(copyright - Annette Kisling)

“Annette Kisling photographs unintelligible things with utmost lucidity. In her current b/w series, "les vitrines", these are the shop windows of the early 21st century, embedded in the bourgeois facades of Paris's inner boroughs-commodity stages arranged for optimal visibility. In Annette Kisling's work, however, their purpose is lost. Here the gaze expands to capture both the interior and the exterior, that which lies behind the windowpane and that which it mirrors: cars, trees, sky, building facades, street alignments. Everything stands side-by-side and simultaneously permeates everything else. This is necessarily so, yet the principle underlying this order is difficult to name. Annette Kisling calls this principle "layering", and by this she refers also to an intertwining of history and the present.”

Exhibited in Galerie Kamm, Berlin.