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Swedish Ecstasy. Hilm af Klimt, August Strindberg et autres visionnaires.

Swedish Ecstasy. Hilm af Klimt, August Strindberg et autres visionnaires. : Primordial Chaos Hilma af Klint, Primordial Chaos, The WU/Rose Series, Group 1, No 16, 1906-1907, oil on canvas, HaK 16.  By courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation. © The Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.    


The exhibition


Not everyone is capable of madness," warned Strindberg, "and those who are lucky enough to be so do not always have the courage. Considered a nation of religion (Protestant) and reason (entrepreneurial), Sweden will have had this courage while cultivating in parallel a delirious esoteric thought, which finds its literary and plastic expression in works with nothing in common with those of the world. Bozar is therefore organizing an exhibition bringing together some 130 works by several leading figures of the Swedish art scene from Emanuel Swedenborg in the 18th century to the turn of the 20th century with August Strindberg, known as a writer, but also as an author of drawings and paintings. The same period gave birth to the visual art of visionaries such as Hilma af Klint, who unknowingly founded lyrical and geometric abstraction.

Extract from the article by Emmanuel Daydé published in the N°105 de la revue Art Absolument. Publication date: March 17, 2023.

When


17/02/2023 - 21/05/2023

Artists