9 October - 12 January 2020
This autumn’s Corner Display focuses on one of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s largest and most enigmatic paintings. His masterpiece Job (1887) is, quite literally, the darkest painting in all of Danish art history. Over time it has darkened to such an extent that we can barely see the figure in it any more. Only under strong side light does the suffering biblical male figure emerge from the darkness, his naked body frozen in place.
When the work was exhibited at Charlottenborg in 1888, it prompted both admiration and outrage among critics and fellow artists. The large, dark painting seemed strangely experimental, and this still holds true today. The Corner Display Hammershøi’s dark masterpieceexhibits the enigmatic painting and relates the story of its genesis, reception and dark afterlife.
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