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16/2/2006

Hilma af Klint & Isa Genzken

Camden Arts Centre, London

Hilma af Klint
Gallery 1
This is the first exhibition in the UK of the work of Hilma af Klint, a Swedish artist (1862-1944) who is considered one of the first true 'moderns'. Her paintings recall other 20th century artists from Kandinsky to Mondrian, though they predate them. Af Klint made her symbolist-style paintings inspired by spiritualism and the occult in secret. She stipulated that they not be exhibited until 20 years after her death, a suggestion that she appreciated being ahead of her time.

Isa Genzken
Galleries 2 & 3
Isa Genzken (born in 1948), one of the most respected artists of her generation, has selected a compelling group of paintings and sculptures in response to showing with Hilma af Klint. Her interests in photography, painting and architecture are combined in her strangely evocative 'MLR' paintings (1992). The geometry and gestural abstraction is predated in Hilma af Klint’s paintings. Also on display are Genzken's idiosyncratic 'Beach Hut' sculptures, in which she deals with leisure and the architecture of everyday life. Please note that in Isa Genzken’s Beach Hut series there is one work of explicit sexual nature, although this is not representative of the exhibition or of the series.

Two Worlds:
A programme of films selected by artist Olivia Plender
Chosen in response to the exhibitions, this series alludes to the supernatural
world, spiritualism and theosophy.
Ghosts Before Breakfast (dir. Hans Richter, 1928)
The Black Cat (dir. Edgar Ulmer, 1934)
Wednesday 22 February 7.00-8.30pm Introduced by Olivia Plender
Admission free

Face to Face: Liam Gillick and Mark Godfrey
Wednesday 01 March 7.00-8.30pm
Admission free

Artist Liam Gillick and art historian Mark Godfrey discuss what attracts them to Isa Genzken's work.

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