Hilma af Klint, Altarbild, 1915

Hilma af Klint, Altarbild, nr 1, grupp X, Altarbilder, 1915

In af Klint’s pictorial universe, the semiotic level is never radically separated from the world of visual forms; her cosmic figures send out mysterious linguistic messages that, as a mystic, she seemed to channel from another dimension, often referring to herself in the second or third person. One of the spirits told her: “You are called to present in pictures a wonderful linguistic system that we term the influence of miraculous powers on people’s outer and inner lives. True, the pictorial language comes from the Orient, but it will be illuminated by a northern light and will be explained in conjunction with outer signs and inner life.”

–Daniel Birnbaum

“Hilma af Klint, a Pioneer of Abstraction” recently closed at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. It will be on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin from June 15 to Oct. 6 and at the Museo Picasso Málaga from Oct. 21 to Feb. 9.

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