Scrutinised and distanced through the unwavering gaze of his lens, his scenes dissemble a network of formal devices: lights, reflections, and minute details transform as ‘intuitive’ gestures, buildings are cropped in colour-field fashion, and the resolute flatness of their surfaces provokes a knowing contrivance of illusion. Through their clinical, hyper-real spectacle, Hütte’s work deliberates the phenomenon of the modern metropolis: as virtual, isolating, post-human and profoundly, majestically beautiful.
