Read our latest blog post on the Hilma af Klint exhibition on view at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museumthrough April 23. This post is by Kara Nandin, Bookstore Manager.
Excerpt: "Af Klint began to exhibit in the 1980s, but the Guggenheim’s "Paintings for the Future" centralizes the artist and her serious devotion to spiritualist art for the first time, and in ways that male artists have been many times over. Her visionary compositions, hung ceremoniously in the spiral halls and alter-like enclaves of the Guggenheim, a major international institution, are finally presented in their appropriate setting, and to a wider audience than ever before. Visually transfixing, af Klint’s meaningful compositions of symbolic coloration and hallucinatory shapes are an astounding artistic search into nameless realms. “You have mystery service ahead,” she once said, “…and will soon enough realize what is expected of you.”-go to
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