Imágenes cortesía del Guggenheim Bilbao

In the wake of the enormous success of a similar anthology held in its New York base, the Guggenheim Museum brings to Bilbao the oeuvre of Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist and mystic who, inspired by her devotion to theosophy, can perhaps be considered a precursor of the rupture that was later undertaken by the canonical avant-garde figures. Intensely spiritual, those depictions of the invisible – loaded with color and pure shapes, sometimes resembling diagrams – were hardly seen outside of their author’s circles, and at her own behest could not be displayed to the public at large until twenty years after her decease, which partly explains the scant acclaim they have up to the present received.

El País: Hilma af Klint, la médium que pintó para el futuro