Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, SERPENTINE GALLERIES

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen Installation view Serpentine Gallery, London (3 March – 15 May 2016) Image © Jerry Hardman-Jones

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen Installation view Serpentine Gallery, London (3 March – 15 May 2016)
Image © Jerry Hardman-Jones

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen

3 MARCH – 15 MAY 2016
SERPENTINE GALLERY

“Serpentine Galleries presents an exhibition of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944), who is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. While her paintings were not seen publicly until 1986, her work from the early 20th century pre-dates the first purely abstract paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich. This Serpentine exhibition focuses primarily on her body of work, The Paintings for the Temple, which dates from 1906-15. The sequential nature of Klint’s work is highlighted by the inclusion in the exhibition of numerous paintings from key series, some never before exhibited in the UK.”

Read more from SEPENTINE GALLERIES :Press Release

Also check out The Guardian article on the artist and the show: Hilma af Klint: a painter possessed

And further at BLOUINARTINFO: Hilma af klints paranormal paintings at londons serpentine

“I had no idea what they were supposed to depict… I worked swiftly and surely, without changing a single brush stroke.” Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen Installation view Serpentine Gallery, London (3 March – 15 May 2016) Image © Jerry Hardman-Jones

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen Installation view Serpentine Gallery, London (3 March – 15 May 2016)
Image © Jerry Hardman-Jones

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen Installation view Serpentine Gallery, London (3 March – 15 May 2016) Image © Jerry Hardman-Jones

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen Installation view Serpentine Gallery, London (3 March – 15 May 2016)
Image © Jerry Hardman-Jones

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen Installation view Serpentine Gallery, London (3 March – 15 May 2016) Image © Jerry Hardman-Jones

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen Installation view Serpentine Gallery, London (3 March – 15 May 2016)
Image © Jerry Hardman-Jones

 ‘Staggering’: The Ten Largest, Youth, 1907. Photograph: Albin Dahlström/Courtesy of Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk

‘Staggering’: The Ten Largest, Youth, 1907. Photograph: Albin Dahlström/Courtesy of Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk

A cartographer of the spirit’: Hilma af Klint at the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm, 1885. Photograph: Courtesy of Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk

A cartographer of the spirit’: Hilma af Klint at the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm, 1885. Photograph: Courtesy of Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk

Barry William Hale

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