Interest in her rekindled after the major exhibition at the Guggenheim in 2018
The first biography of the enigmatic Swedish painter was published last year by Chicago University Press, Hilma af Klint (1862 – 1944). Interest in her has been revived after the major exhibition at the Guggenheim in 2018, while from April 18 at London’s Tate Modern, her works will be presented alongside works by Piet Mondrian, and next year, for the first time, there will be an exhibition dedicated to Kandinsky and af Klint. The author of “Hilma af Klint: A Biography”, journalist and art historian Julia Voss, spoke to Artnet News.
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“I think one current, which is very important for af Klint, is in the world of science. This is the discovery of all kinds of unseen forces. By that I mean X-rays and radioactivity. I believe that without this scientific discovery, her works of art would not look the same. It’s something he’s keeping a close eye on. He is not the only artist who closely follows these developments, Wassily Kandinsky does the same. For both of them, science then opened up completely new ways of seeing the world,” says Julia Voss, who studied over 20,000 of af Klint’s notebooks. “He is greatly influenced by the many political, scientific and spiritual currents. It all comes together in her works and in her life and shapes how she paints and how she thinks,” she adds.
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“She works in a women’s collective, always surrounded by friends and, sometimes, lovers. And then she is visited by spiritual forces, voices of spirits that alert her. And then, when I read her notebooks, I realized that she was different than I thought. It’s a dialogue. They are in dialogue with these forces and more like invisible friends. They support her, make suggestions to her. They ask her if she wants to do something and then she says “yes”. Never, he doesn’t want to. I think it’s very different from being told to do something or given an order. Until her last days, these voices were with her,” emphasizes Voss.
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