Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter known for his deliberate and meticulous approach, who created just over 400 works in his 51 years. His refined figurative painting enjoyed success with both the public and critics of his time, a period that coincided with Symbolist, Expressionist, and early Cubist movements. After the artist's death, with the consolidation of the historical avant-garde, his work fell outside the established canon and was largely forgotten. However, since the 1980s, interest in his work, both within and outside Denmark, has steadily increased.
The Listening Eye alludes to the metaphorical relationship between Hammershøi's painting, the silence it evokes, and his passion for music. In his limited palette, white plays a particularly prominent role, a color that—as Kandinsky noted—conveys a silence full of possibilities and functions similarly to a musical pause: it creates anticipation and is a necessary condition for listening. The empty spaces, the introspective figures, and the apparent absence of action in Hammershøi's paintings contribute to enhancing this silence, conveyed by the color and the gray glazes that unify his works. The exhibition is organized into sections dedicated to portraits, figures, interiors, and urban and rural landscapes, offering access to a small universe—that of his immediate surroundings—which the artist orders and renders through meticulous harmony.
Spanish edition with appendix of texts in English
Hardcover binding lined with paper with rounded spine and printed chrome on the cover; stamping on the cover and spine; endpapers and headbands.
Format: 240 x 290 mm
232 pages
Interior pages on two types of paper: matte coated for the essay section with images and offset for the appendix of texts in English
Authors: Clara Marcellán, Ramón Andrés, Jonas Beyer, Sandra Gianfreda and Florian Illies, Peter Norgaard Larsen
97 catalogued works
ISBN: 9791387729073
Catalogue with the support of the New Carlsberg Foundation
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