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Vilhelm Hammershøi - Silence

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New York, Paris, London, Hong Kong, Hollywood, St. Moritz, Los Angeles, Somerset, Zurich, Gstaad, Menorca, Monaco and now freshly hatched in the endless spring rain of the year: Basel. Hauser & Wirth is expanding, merging, synergizing, growing, adding to the Basel gallery Knöll and opening another Swiss branch in Luftgässlein.
Hauser usually tends to clogge rather than spill, but in tranquil, Protestant, brittle Basel, the gallery is opening with the minimal and delicate paintings of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. On the one hand, this is very fitting, as the cool Nordic melancholy of Hammershøi's work is reflected in the people of the city walking through the puddles in the streets in the absence of summer. On the other hand, this is also somewhat bizarre, as the Luftgässlein is a huge building site where there is hammering and clattering and where there is not much sign of "silence".

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