ULTIMATE Stefan Heyne

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The artist omits the elements that generally define a photograph, forgoing the use of any identifiable motif. Instead he creates abstract photographs honed to perfection by paring his imagery to a blurred play of light and shadow with no indication of form. In his most recent series of works, Heyne even avoids the use of soft-focus as an artistic device and emphasizes instead the high-definition reproduction of perhaps one of the purest motifs of all: the cloudless sky photographed from the window of an airplane. The color spectra of pure light revealed in these images seem blurry and out of focus, but they are not. Thus, Heyne’s latest photographs with their splendid sequences of utter dissolution of form and color represent his most radical abstraction to date. In his photographs the viewer is confronted with an endless depth of space to eternity.