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Ingelheim, Germany, 2009
Ditone Print, 155 x 205 cm
DZ BANK [KUNSTSAMMLUNG]
© Axel Hütte | | | | | | Night and Day | | | | 23 September 2017 – 14 January 2018 | | | | Opening: Friday, 22 September, 7 p.m. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Axel Hütte
Tokyo-1, Japan, 2010
Duratrans-Print, 207 x 172 cm
Courtesy Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
© Axel Hütte | | | | | | Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, is presenting 70 day and night pictures, spanning a period of more than 20 years, from the artistic oeuvre of Axel Hütte (*1951), including a number of new works and works that have never been shown publicly before.
Axel Hütte, who for a long time has been regarded as a master of contemporary landscape photography, was a student in the famous Bernd Becher class at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, as were Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer. Together they rank among the important, internationally renowned representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography. | | | | | | | | | Axel Hütte
Furkablick, Switzerland, 1994
C-Print, 187 x 237 cm
© Axel Hütte | | | | | | The comprehensive exhibition of the Düsseldorf-based photographer, who to this day travels to all continents for his fascinating photographs, impressively reflects his interest in the perception of the picture, of representation and reality. Axel Hütte’s photographs surprise us with pictorial structures that place his work beyond the documentary. With water reflections, the dark of the night, but also with vertical or horizontal elements of architecture he composes atmospheric pictorial worlds. Making use of the blurring created by wafts of fog, and of structures found in bridge architecture, he creates both perspectival and atmospheric landscape pictures.
Hütte’s photographs are characterised by a profound stillness, by an overwhelming sense of loneliness. The process of creating his pictures, which he takes using a plate camera, usually makes considerable demands on his patience. In photographs from the African desert, the Antarctic Sea, or in his nocturnal pictures of metropolises – Axel Hütte shows moments of astonishment and contemplation, inviting the visitor to take a closer look.
The presentation of Hütte’s early work shown simultaneously at the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop (24 Sep 2017 – 7 Jan 2018) widens the perspective to encompass the Düsseldorf photographer’s early artistic work. | | | | | | | | | Axel Hütte
Rio Negro-2, Brazil, 1998
C-Print, 187 x 237 cm
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