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Hilma af Klint The Secret Paintings @NSWAG
"The Secret Paintings of Hilma af Klint" By John Saxby, Editor, AGNSW "Look" magazine "The experiments I have undertaken,’ the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint wrote in 1906, ‘will astound humanity.’ Or, as Sue Cramer, curator of Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings , puts it: ‘You’re entranced by the mystery of it all, and by the beauty of the works. I was amazed that they had been made so early last century. Their colours, abstract forms and symbols are just so extraordinary. And the scale of many of the paintings! The scope of af Klint’s vision is remarkable. That this was achieved so early and by a woman, when things were so restrictive for her gender. You just think, well, how could this be?’ Incredulity is a common response upon first learning of af Klint’s paintings, which are on display in an exhibition co-curated by the Art Gallery of NSW’s Nicholas Chambers. The astonishment only deepens when one learns about the nature of their creation and the artist...