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FEBRUARY 3 \u2013 MAY 23 2027<\/h5>

VILHELM HAMMERSH\u00d8I<\/h1>

WITH THE FUTURE AS HORIZON<\/h3>

Vilhelm Hammersh\u00f8i is today considered one of Denmark’s truly great artists. In spring 2027, Ordrupgaard opens its doors to a major exhibition in which Hammersh\u00f8i’s beloved works come face to face with works by, among others, the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. The exhibition asks whether we discover something new in Hammersh\u00f8i’s work when we view it through the lens of the modern world.<\/p>

The exhibition will feature more than 70 works from Denmark and abroad, encompassing Hammersh\u00f8i’s well-known subjects: interiors, portraits and landscapes. With a focus on the phenomena and visual language of the works, the exhibition explores how Hammersh\u00f8i’s treatment of light, line and repetition anticipates the modern art of the twentieth century.<\/p>

TOWARDS MODERNITY<\/h4>

Hammersh\u00f8i stands apart as a solitary figure on the Danish art scene at a time defined by rupture and renewal on the one hand, and nostalgic longing on the other. When we look at his works, we are rarely in any doubt that it is his hand behind them. We recognise the undisturbed depictions of a sitting room, a landscape, a building, a figure seen from behind. In Hammersh\u00f8i’s works, silence reverberates, rendered in a refined palette of predominantly grey, black and white tones. This apparent harmony connects his work to the Golden Age painters’ idyllic portrayals of everyday life \u2014 yet in Hammersh\u00f8i, that harmonious image is fractured by an underlying ambivalence:<\/p>

We look at a work and feel both at home and out of place at once. The open rooms do not invite us in; they ask us to observe from a distance. Hammersh\u00f8i’s works carry a complexity that points towards the horizons of the future and the twentieth century, rather than back into history.<\/p>

“\u2026I am not blind to the fact that there is something wrong in favouring the old at the expense of the new \u2014 the good new, mind you. Modern people ought to live in modern, contemporary homes. And it is far better to follow a modern taste than to imitate the old.”<\/p>

\u2014 Vilhelm Hammersh\u00f8i, 1909<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Vilhelm Hammersh\u00f8i, Interior from the Home of the Artist, ca. 1900. Foto: Finnish National Gallery, Hannu Pakarinen.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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