Hilma af Klint (Swedish edition)

Frn att tidigare ha betraktats som en konstnrernas konstnr har Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944), efter den frsta retrospektiva utstllningen p Moderna Museet i Stockholm 2013 och den fljande utstllningsturnn som sgs av en miljonpublik, numera en etablerad plats i den abstrakta konstens historia. Centralt i hennes mleri r ven frgan om andlighet. Hilma af Klint var en klassiskt skolad konstnr och ett medium som frvandlade andliga meddelanden till abstrakta och frgrika bilder. Ur en rad perspektiv undersks i den hr katalogen hur denna banbrytande abstrakta konstnr kopplade sin konstnrliga praktik till ett hgre medvetande. I esser av konsthistoriker, en kvantfysiker, en lrare i andlighet, en historiker i teosofi och esoterism, men flera, ges insikter om en vrld bortom det synliga som fascinerar, nu kanske mer n ngonsin. Katalogen har producerats i samband med utstllningen med samma namn p Moderna Museet i Malm, sommaren 2020. Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly established her place in art history. She has also been the subject of documenta-ry films and biographies. In 2013, Iris Mller-Westermann organized the first institutional exhibition of af Klints work. Now she presents us with the latest information and research in an extensive survey show at the Moder-na Museet in Malm. Of crucial importance is the issue of spirituality in af Klints paintinghow she managed to translate both the material and the immaterial world into a pictorial vision. The accompanying exhibition catalogue is the first to investigate, from a variety of perspectives, the question of how this trailblazing abstract artist linked her painting to a higher consciousness. Essays by leading historians of theosophy and a quantum physicist, among others, provide enlightening insight into a world in which both the visualization of atoms and spiritual sances alike became artistic materiala world that fascinates us even more than ever.