In "Silent Reserves," works from two collections come together: paintings from the collection of Basel artist Peter Suter—primarily by Swiss painters from the first four decades of the 20th century—are displayed alongside works from the Aargau Art Museum in Aarau. A privately motivated art collection encounters a publicly curated museum collection. Works by artists who are hardly known to a broader audience today, who originally neither enjoyed popular appreciation nor conformed to mainstream trends, are presented here in close proximity to well-known pieces by recognized and renowned artists. The thematically organized compilation of this catalog reorders the presentation. It deliberately deviates from classical art historical presentation habits and attempts to...