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HILMA AF KLINT : PAINTING THE UNSEEN(SERPENTINE GALLERY)
3 Mar-15 May 2016
Serpentine
London W2 3XA (Serpentine South), W2 2AR (Serpentine North)
Overview
The late Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. While her paintings were not seen publicly until 1987, her work from the early 20th century pre-dates the first purely abstract paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich. Af Klint sought to express the feelings transmitted to her from nature and the unseen spiritual world. This Serpentine exhibition focuses primarily on her body of work, The Paintings for the Temple (1906–15), and numerous paintings from key series, some never-before exhibited in the UK. Co-curated with Moderna Museet Director, Daniel Birnbaum.
Artists
Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection
V&A
until 5 Jan
Seeing Ourselves
HackelBury Fine Art
until 6 Jul
Raphaela Simon: Phantom
Michael Werner Gallery
until 2 Sep
Otobong Nkanga: We Come From Fire and Return to Fire
Lisson Gallery, 27 Bell St
until 3 Aug
Enzo Mari
Design Museum
until 8 Sep
Jack Pierson
Lisson Gallery, 67 Lisson St
until 3 Aug
Guido Mocafico: Serpens
Hamiltons Gallery
until 31 Aug
Beyond Fashion
Saatchi Gallery
until 8 Sep
Agnes Scherer: Woe and Awe
Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street
until 27 Aug
Alex Israel: REMEMBR
Gagosian, Davies St.
until 13 Jul
Michela de Mattei & Toby Christian: Flash_Looking
Belmacz
until 5 Jul
Here & Now
JD Malat Gallery
until 6 Jul
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo
The Wallace Collection
until 3 Nov
Coalescence: Sometime Later
The Showroom
until 6 Jul
The Secret Lives of Plants
The Gallery of Everything
until 7 Jul
Ana Karkar: Whole Cookie
Almine Rech
until 27 Jul
The Body as Matter: Giacometti Nauman Picasso
Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill
until 26 Jul
Sean Landers: Animal Portraits
Timothy Taylor
until 13 Jul
The Estate of Yiannis Maniatakos: Four Paintings
Rodeo
until 28 Sep
