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"For the first time, the complex, symbiotic ecologies that sustained the practices of two of the twentieth-century's greatest painters are revealed. Although they never met, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian shared a deep dynamic connection to the natural world and began their careers as landscape painters. For them, science and mysticism were not exclusive practices, but part of the same essential framework for understanding the life forces around them. Both artists engaged with science and esoteric thought as tools for exploring the underlying structures of nature and how they give meaning to art and life. Natural forms are abstracted to their atomic levels; cells evolve, dividing and expanding the canvas in colour; sinuous stems spiral into the ether whilst the crystalline formations of grids stretch out to form an infinite universe. Including works never before seen in the UK, this publication will elucidate and invigorate our understanding of two ground-breaking artists and will be sure to get synapses firing."--

Painting, Abstract --- Nature in art --- Abstract painting --- Non-objective painting --- Painting, Non-objective --- Painting, Modern --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Mondrian, Piet, --- af Klint, Hilma --- Mondriaan, Piet, --- Mondriaan, Pieter Cornelis, --- Af Klint, Hilma. --- Mondriaan, Piet. --- spiritualiteit --- Af Klint, Hilma --- Mondriaan, Piet

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Sweden may be seen as a Protestant nation of great engineers and entrepreneurs, but the nation's spiritual life has long been governed by a less official current, visible in its art and literature. Mysticism and esoteric speculation runs through the writings of some of Sweden's most important figures, from the 18th-century scientist, theologian and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg to the turn of the 20th-century with August Strindberg, known as a novelist and playwright, but who was also involved in alchemical experiments, occult photography and proto-expressionist paintings that verge on abstraction. In the same period we find visual art by visionaries such as Carl Fredrik Hill, Ernst Josephson and Hilma af Klint. These visions continue to inspire contemporary artists such as Cecilia Edefalk, Carsten Höller, Christine Ödlund, Daniel Youssef, Lars Olof Loeld. With texts by the exhibition's curator Daniel Birnbaum, James Brett, Peter Cornell, Briony Fer, Magnus Florin, Jennifer Higgie, Carsten Höller, Stephen McNeilly as well as Svante Tirén on Swedish Sami culture. Thus past and future come together in this catalogue that examines Swedish artists who have translated their experiences of transcendent spheres into ecstatic artworks.00Exhibition: Bozar, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium (17.02. - 21.05.2023).

kunst --- negentiende eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 7.036/039 --- af Klint Hilma --- Cassel Anna --- Strindberg August --- Josephson Ernst --- Youssef Daniel --- Höller Carsten --- Edefalk Cecilia --- Loeld Lars Olof --- abstractie --- abstracte kunst --- fonograaf --- Zweden --- licht --- lichtkunst --- schilderkunst --- tekenkunst --- installaties --- fotografie --- natuurfotografie --- marines --- zeegezichten --- theosofie --- spiritualiteit --- alchemie --- esoterie --- mystiek --- Youssef, Daniel --- Suède --- Photography --- spiritualiteit. --- Af Klint, Hilma. --- Strindberg, August. --- Josephson, Ernst. --- Loeld, Lars Olof. --- Cassel, Anna. --- Hill, Carl Fredrik. --- Edefalk, Cecilia. --- Zweden. --- Af Klint, Hilma --- Strindberg, August --- Josephson, Ernst --- Loeld, Lars Olof --- Cassel, Anna --- Hill, Carl Fredrik --- Edefalk, Cecilia