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with its sanctuary light visible through the door. The four Finally, section ten, "Silent Musical Scores" depicts settings
paintings are on permanent exhibit in the Art History for operas, without the singers, so, appropriately, without
Museum and are among the greats of the Museum's sound. A cupboard, almost two meters tall bears the cut-
collection of nineteenth century romantic period paintings outs of a cello on its two doors the color of cello wood. The
by Genevan artists. This section also includes Calame's connection with the instrument strikes one immediately and
equally grand Alpine "Monte Rosa", which turns up only then does one realize that the wood win be mute for the
occasionally in the Museum's galleries in the course of the duration of its life.
rotations of the canvases.
Thewholeimpressive experience is dueto the unflaggingwork

"SilentSpaces",sectionnine,takesu%everywhereit seems, of the Museum's Lada Unstutter, not at her first undertaking
even to the "Island of the Dead", a video by Mat Collishaw nor, we ardently hope, at her last.
showing us the island's colossal rock formations and forest
from the water, viewed from dawn to dark, a setting where The exhibit runs through Sunday, 27 0ctober, closed on
it is as difficult to imagine sound as it is to imagine people Mondays. See it if you can, for it is a splendid and rare -
there. unique! - encounter with art.

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