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Summer Interior

Edward Hopper, 1909

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Dimensioni:

61,6 x 74,1 cm

The female body is present yet seems almost to collapse into the surrounding space. There is no seduction here, but vulnerability, weight and fatigue. Hopper removes the body from the logic of posing and returns it to a private, non-performative dimension. This absence of theatricality makes the scene both radically intimate and difficult to decipher.

Opera #317a1a22

Room in New York

Edward Hopper, 1932

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Dimensioni:

71,7 x 90 cm

An apparently ordinary office becomes a system of tensions. Eyes never meet, bodies occupy different trajectories, and even the sheet of paper on the floor seems to introduce a narrative possibility. Hopper does not tell us what is happening: he constructs the conditions for us to imagine it. The work exists precisely within this zone of uncertainty.

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Gas

Edward Hopper, 1940

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Dimensioni:

66,68 x 102,23 cm

In Gas, the boundary between civilisation and nature suddenly appears fragile. The red pumps, almost modern totems, introduce an artificial geometry into the landscape as the road disappears toward the woods. Hopper constructs an image of transition: a place designed for movement that, paradoxically, asks us to stop.

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Nighthawks

Edward Hopper, 1942

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Dimensioni:

84,1 x 152,4 cm

The power of Nighthawks lies not simply in the solitude of its figures, but in the architecture that produces it. The glass window exposes everything while simultaneously making everything inaccessible. We can see these people perfectly, yet cannot enter their space. Hopper turns the viewer into someone observing a scene to which they can never truly belong.

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Automat

Edward Hopper, 1927

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Dimensioni:

71,4 x 88,7 cm

The large window behind the woman should open the space, yet it gives back only darkness. This is one of Hopper’s most powerful devices: turning transparency into a psychological wall. The cup, table, hat and reflected lights construct an expectation without an event. Nothing happens, and precisely because of that, everything remains possible.

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Chop Suey

Edward Hopper, 1929

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Here Hopper turns an ordinary conversation into a small visual enigma. Light enters the space with an almost artificial precision, while the figures seem present without ever being fully accessible. We do not know what they are saying, and precisely this narrative withholding forces us to construct what the painting refuses to explain.

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Morning Sun

Edward Hopper, 1952

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Dimensioni:

71,4 x 101,9 cm

The morning light does not simply illuminate the woman: it exposes her. Her body remains suspended between the interior of the room and the city beyond the window. Hopper creates a psychological space before a domestic one, where looking outside becomes a way of measuring the distance between what we are and what may exist beyond us.

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Soir Bleu

Edward Hopper, 1914

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Dimensioni:

91,4 x 182,9

Hopper stages a crowded place to reveal, paradoxically, the impossibility of encounter. Each figure seems to belong to a different story, enclosed within a private mental space. The white clown becomes the centre of a composition where sociability is merely apparent: we are together, yet remain irreducibly separate.

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Early Sunday Morning

Edward Hopper, 1930

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Dimensioni:

89,4 x 153 cm

An almost empty street becomes a portrait of the city without the need to depict its inhabitants. Doors, windows and signs act as traces of temporarily absent lives. Hopper paints a suspended moment, when the city exists before being occupied by its functions. Architecture thus becomes a memory of human presence.

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Second Story Sunlight

Edward Hopper, 1960

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Dimensioni:

101,6 x 127 cm

Here light does not generate melancholy; it produces a strange, motionless euphoria. The two figures inhabit the same architecture while seeming to occupy different temporalities, as the blue sky pushes the scene toward an almost unreal dimension. Hopper paints summer not as an event, but as a perceptual condition made of light, expectation and expanded time.

Opera #54eeb331

The City

Edward Hopper, 1927

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Dimensioni:

69,8 x 93,9 cm

Hopper’s city is never merely a collection of buildings; it is a machine that organises vision. Here perspectives, façades and urban voids create a strangely silent scene. Human presence appears almost marginal beside the architecture. The city is not the background to life; rather, life itself seems to become an episode within the city.

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Office at Night

Edward Hopper, 1940

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Dimensioni:

56,4 x 63,8 cm

They are physically close, yet the composition makes them distant. The man reads while the woman idly touches the piano: two small gestures describing two parallel worlds. Hopper shows that distance does not require physical space. It can emerge at the same table, within the same room, even inside the same relationship.

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New York Interior

Edward Hopper, 1921

Tecnica:

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Dimensioni:

61,6 x 74,3 cm

Hopper grants us access to an intimate scene while withholding the identity of its protagonist. We see the body, the gesture and the dress, but not the face. The figure ceases to be a specific character and becomes a presence. Intimacy is not narrated here; it is observed from a distance that makes the viewer inevitably ambiguous.

Opera #16bb994a

SelfPotrait

Edward Hopper, 1918

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Dimensioni:

64,5 x 51,8 cm

Hopper does not construct a celebratory image of himself. His gaze is direct, alert, almost wary, while the hat and clothing turn the face into a deliberately controlled presence. The distance that will define much of his painting is already evident: even when artist and subject coincide, the image retains something that continues to withdraw from us.

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Light, Silence, and Distance

Edward Hopper

Step into a suspended world of light, architecture and human distance through a selection of works by Edward Hopper. From Nighthawks and Automat to Morning Sun, Gas and House by the Railroad, the exhibition explores the quiet tension that defines Hopper’s vision: figures physically close yet emotionally distant, interiors opened by windows that become psychological boundaries, and cities that seem to exist in the silence between one event and the next. Presented within MostraSpace, the exhibition invites visitors to move through Hopper’s imagery as a spatial experience, discovering how light, emptiness and architecture transform ordinary moments into unresolved narratives. mostra.space