Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

Hilma af Klint：知识之树

出版社 ‏ : ‎ David Zwirner Books (2023年5月9日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 112页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1644230844

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1644230848

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 720 g

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 19.69 x 0.98 x 27.31 cm

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内容简介

瑞典艺术家Hilma af Klint开创性的知识之树系列的详细调查

"启示性和崇高性。. . . 她的作品在概念上保持开放，足以让观众得出自己的结论，插入自己的意义，并感到被传送到其他光辉的世界"。-《纽约时报

作为二十世纪具创造性的艺术家之一，af Klint是抽象主义的先驱。她对非客观绘画的尝试先于康定斯基和蒙德里安的作品，并从根本上挖掘了科学领域。af Klint对灵性主义和哲学有着浓厚的兴趣，她开发了一种探索形而上学中深奥概念的图像学，正如《知识之树》所展示的那样。这个很少见的纸上作品系列描绘了轨道、神秘的形式、统一与分离、黑暗与光明、开始与结束、生命与死亡、精神与物质的视觉寓言。

本书为2021年在纽约David Zwirner和2022年在伦敦David Zwirner举办的《Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge》展览而出版，其中艺术史学家Susan Aberth的文章探讨了af Klint的精神和神学的影响。策展人Helen Molesworth和美国桂冠诗人Joy Harjo之间的对话讨论了知识之树和本土理论之间的联系，该出版物扩大了af Klint永恒作品的哲学解释范围。此外，还包括学者Julia Voss新近委托撰写的文章，艺术家Suzan Frecon的贡献，以及艺术史学家Max Rosenberg的文字，进一步发展了围绕af Klint的作品为什么在其时代没有被认可的对话。

The first detailed survey of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s groundbreaking Tree of Knowledge series

“Revelatory and sublime. . . . Her work remains conceptually open enough for viewers to draw their own conclusions, insert their own meaning and feel transported to other glorious worlds.” —The New York Times

One of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century, af Klint was a pioneer of abstraction. Her first forays into nonobjective painting preceded the work of Kandinsky and Mondrian and radically mined the fields of science and religion. Deeply interested in spiritualism and philosophy, af Klint developed an iconography that explores esoteric concepts in metaphysics, as demonstrated in Tree of Knowledge. This rarely seen series of works on paper renders orbital, enigmatic forms, visual allegories of unification and separateness, darkness and light, beginning and end, life and death, and spirit and matter.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge at David Zwirner, New York, in 2021 and David Zwirner, London, in 2022, this book features a text by the art historian Susan Aberth examining af Klint’s spiritual and theosophical influences. With a conversation between curator Helen Molesworth and the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discussing connections between Tree of Knowledge and Native theories, the publication broadens the scope of philosophical interpretations of af Klint's timeless work. Also included is a newly commissioned essay by the celebrated af Klint scholar Julia Voss, a contribution by the artist Suzan Frecon, and a text by art historian Max Rosenberg that further develops the conversation around why af Klint’s work was not recognized in its time.