Hilma af Klint
Subtitle: painting the unseen
By: catalogue editors, Emma Enderby, with Melissa Blanchflower and Melissa Larner
Contributors: Enderby, Emma, editor, writer of added commentary; Blanchflower, Melissa, editor; Larner, Melissa, editor; Obrist, Hans Ulrich, writer of foreword; Peyton-Jones, Julia, writer of foreword; Birnbaum, Daniel, 1963- writer of added commentary; Higgie, Jennifer, writer of added commentary; Voss, Julia, 1974- writer of added commentary; Serpentine Gallery
Publisher: Koenig Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783863358945; 9781908617347
Subjects: Painters; Swedish Painting; Exhibitions
Other titles: Painting the unseen
Work titles: Works
Description: Hilma af Klint is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. While her paintings were not seen publicly until 1987, her work from the early 20th century pre-dates the first purely abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian or Malevich. Af Klint sought to express her feelings transmitted to her from nature and the unseen spiritual world. This catalogue focuses primarily on her body of work "The Paintings for the Temple", 1906-15, and numerous paintings from the key series never published before. Exhibition: Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (03.03-15.05.2016).
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Hilma af Klint : Painting the Unseen", held at the Serpentine Gallery, London, March 3-May 15, 2016.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword / Julia Peyton-Jones & Hans-Ulrich Obrist; title: Painting the unseen / Daniel Birnbaum & Emma Enderby; title: Longing for light : the art of Hilm af Klint / Jennifer Higgie; title: Hilm af Klint and the evolution of art / Julia Voss; title: Works. Primordial chaos ; The ten largest ; Evolution ; The swan ; The dove ; Altarpieces ; Series II ; On the viewing of flowers and trees ; Notebooks.