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Axel Hütte: Reflexio

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Axel Hütte: Reflexio presents a compelling collection of photographic works capturing Upper Swabia's rich Baroque architecture and landscapes. Rather than traditional representations, Hütte inverts colour spectrums and reflects pictorial spaces to create images that challenge conventional perception. These transformed photographs offer an autonomous aesthetic experience, revealing new facets of reality by equating 'Baroque' and 'landscape' as tools to explore pictorial truths.
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Format: Hardback
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Inverted Baroque, Mirrored Landscapes

Oberschwaben (Upper Swabia), between the Black Forest, Lake Constance and the Allgäu, offers a richness of Baroque architecture and picturesque rolling landscapes. Axel Hütte's images are not intended as portrayals of a cultural landscape and its history. They are photographic images, but not necessarily photographically realistic images. They are, collectively, titled Reflexio.

Hütte works with the inversion of the colour spectrum, the reflection of the pictorial space. The photographer's interventions in the realistic image are a radical transformation of what the eye initially registered, they contradict experience; negate customary perception. Instead, they are an autonomous aesthetic construct and reveal a different side of reality.

The two themes in these works—Baroque and landscape—thus become equivalent tools for thoroughly investigating pictorial realities.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775754903

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 June 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 36 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Text by Julian Heynen
  • Edited by Hans-Jörg Reisch
  • Edited by Andreas Reisch

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 277.0mm

Height: 295.0mm

Weight: 1040g

Pages: 84

About the Author

AXEL HÜTTE (*1951, Essen) studied photography in Düsseldorf Art Academy in Bernd and Hilla Becher's class, and is considered one of main representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography. His images take on a painterly quality as strives to make the world experienceable as real and at the same time as imagination. His works are part of the world's most important photo collections. Hütte lives and works in Düsseldorf.

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