The world we live in is multidimensional - and full of dynamic motion. Photographic images are by contrast only two dimensional. Therefore many artists strive to capture the illusion of depth in to their images.
Inspired of modern scientist's theories, like those of Stephen Hawking about space and time, or ancient philosophies like Taoism and Zen Jobst von Heintze is not follwing this classical approach to the visual arts. If there are far more dimensions than a human mind can conceive, space is curved or all we call reality is just an illusion - why should an artist just to be content with recreating something, that is litearally "obvious" instead of stimulating the audience to view a much deeper truth? If photography is used to extract something special out of the visible reality and than further refines this essence even more, how will the resulting image translate into the viewers eye? Will such an image create a new reality by itself? Those are the questions that matter to Jobst von Heintze in his photographic work.
Already in his early work with photography as an artistic medium Jobst von Heintze explored ways to create such alternate realities. Instead of mimicking multidimensionality on a flat image he began experimenting with unwrapping space and time. The photographic work of Jobst von Heintze is reflecting an ongoing search for methods and artistic impression - either by "classic" photographic methods like perspective and angle or from the mid 1990's also with digital postprocessing.
Deeply rooted in philosophical questions Jobst von Heintze is exploring in his work ways to artistically condense multidimensional concepts like "space", "movement" and "time" into the by it's nature twodimensional artform "photography". Small digital images on a computer's screen can just give the audience a first glimpse. Experiencing those photographic images as larger than life prints on several square metres each will change how the viewer conceives and understands space, time and movement.
