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Sandia Mountains 1
TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Axel Hütte (Essel, Alemania, 1951)
Title: Sandia Mountains 1
Year: 2008
Technique: C-Print Photography
Size: 101 x 131 cm
Edition: 3/4
Axel Hütte is a member of a generation of artists formed in the halls of the Kunstakademie de Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf Art Academy), under the tutelage of Hilla and Bernd Becher, during the 1970s. This piece was part of the “Tierras Extrañas” (“Strange Lands”) exposition that was presented at the Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, and was acquired by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation at the 2011 International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) in Madrid for its contemporary photography collection.
The series, to which the image belongs, is inspired by 35 large-format colour photographs, mostly taken between 2007 and 2008 in countries such as Spain, Venezuela and Ecuador. In this case, they were taken in the “Sandia Mountains” of New Mexico, after a spectacular fire. Images of light that try to capture the imprecision, the near-impossible, and the singularity of nature. Purity and framing compositions, seeking distressing perspectives, leaden and disturbing landscapes, misty and blurred in the limits of abstraction, avoiding any documentary discourse so as to focus on the emotional, under a sort of neo-romanticism that captures the sublime.