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An exhibition of paintings by Swedish artist Hilma af Klint broke attendance records at New York’s Guggenheim museum. Now the first major Asia-Pacific survey of af Klint’s work is on at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Kandinsky and Pollock have been acclaimed as the pioneers of abstract art. Overlooking the Swedish artist who was inspired by seances with female friends.
Hilma af Klint: how a “crazy, remote woman” upstaged male art heroes
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Some paintings are worthy of pilgrimage. But for Halina Dyrschka, there are some paintings that are so extraordinary, they are journeys in themselves. In 2013, the Berlin-based filmmaker saw a series of works called
The Ten Largest, by a Swedish mystic called Hilma af Klint in a German newspaper. The images transported her so vividly, she lost the ability to describe them.
“When I saw her paintings, I thought ‘it cannot be’,” says Dyrschka, who would later visit the exhibition