The gallery in Piazza San Marco will display the results of a project begun in 2012, thanks to a residency project in which Hütte participated, staying in the BLM lodgings, which allowed the artist to shoot a series of images in the palazzos and churches of Venice. Light is the protagonist of the exhibition, capable of guiding the beholder through the constant alternation between the real and the imaginary,inviting him/her to adopt a conscious and not passive approach, yet one capable wandering freely through the fantasies of the imagination. In the shots of mountain peaks hidden by dark clouds hinting at the eminent arrival of a storm, fog and mists hinder theview, transforming reality into a ghost of itself.
The point of view is mysterious: all scale references are removed, the figures often shrouded in clouds like birds in flight; at other times it is almost impossible to trace where the image has been taken.
from June 5 until October 5, 2014
Axel Hütte.
Fantasmi e realtà
curated by Filippo Maggia
Galleria di Piazza San Marco 71/c, Venezia
promoted by Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
catalogue curated by Filippo Maggia Skira, 2014
under the patronage of Goethe Institut
with the contribution of Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca di Venezia (ACIT)