AKINCI is proud to present Axel Hütte’s most recent photo series of flowers along with photographs of landscapes in Antarctica and Italy in his solo exhibition 'ENIGMATIC | Flower – Wood – Growler'.
The photographs of Axel Hütte (Essen, 1951) are part of a long tradition of landscape photography. Photographing landscapes is closely associated with travel and the appropriation or ‘discovery’ of unknown places. Since the late nineteenth century, photography has played a crucial role in the practical documentation and exploration of the earth. With the growth of tourism, the use of Google Maps and the spread of visual culture through the use of the internet, the landscape has slowly become part of a global visual consumer culture. As everything now seems to be photographed and thus ‘discovered’, there is little mystery left, a certain disenchantment of the world. Axel Hütte’s photographs bring back an element of mystery, a form of alienation rooted in reality.