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The Interior Sublime: Wilhelm Hammershøi and the Painting of Silence – Art Matters Lecture with Eik Kahng
November 2, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT
$10Eik Kahng, Ph.D.
Chief Curator and Deputy Director, SBMA
In the last thirty years, the Danish painter Wilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) has regained the critical recognition that he enjoyed during his lifetime as “the Danish Vermeer.” His route to the uncanny and the sublime was unique, in that he chose to focus on domestic interiors, typically populated by a lone figure, often seen from behind, and in his most memorable compositions, entirely empty. This lecture will seek to locate his art in the European tradition, while describing his unique strategies towards a kind of interior sublime accessed through mundane experience of everyday life.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free Students | Museum Circle
$10 SBMA Members
$15 Non-Members