An extraordinary personal cosmology explodes in bright colour across vast canvases. Spirals and tendrils twist and ribbon through radiating planes of soft lilac and burnt orange. A myriad of biomorphic and geometric forms oscillate within mysterious pictorial formulas, transposed from image to image, as the artist’s hand moves fluidly between atomic and cosmic scales, between figuration and complete abstraction.
Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s imagery appears untethered from the tangible world we see. Though radical, her work remained unknown for quite some time, and has only recently begun ...
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