AXEL HÜTTE – FRANKFURT 2011 // EMETH
2011-06-27In the show Frankfurt 2011 // Emeth (in Hebrew Emeth stands for “truth” – Meth means “death”), the works as a whole focus on the rapid changes of environmental reality, the alteration of urban and natural landscapes and the reception of the visible reality. In “Tableau Frankfurt am Main”, 2011 Axel Hütte brings together postcards picturing the city before the 2nd World War with his own photographs of the present views of the city. By opposing images from different decades the artist hints us towards the diverse modes of representational images and the changes within the visual perception. Consequently and in an ironic way, Hütte chooses the format of an overdimensioned postcard – an out-dated medium of mass communication in today’s society.
The perfectly composed photographs of nighttime cityscapes integrated by Axel Hütte feature the particular skyline of Frankfurt. Like all nighttime photographs of Axel Hütte those pictures were taken with extremely long exposure time – also in details one can find the examination of the notion of time which reveals the hidden and focuses the perception.The artificial lights illuminating the darkness in “Ratskeller”, 2011 create a shifting moment in the perception and constitute an irritating, magical atmosphere. Although the scene is deserted, or precisely because of the absence of people strong energy emanates from the image.
Opposite – Frankfurt, (Night), 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 23rd, 2011
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
60314
Frankfurt
