Is this female Swedish painter a major rediscovery – or a minor footnote?

Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen

Serpentine Gallery, until 15 May

Das Institut

Serpentine Sackler Gallery, until 15 May

Barry Flanagan: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Waddington Custot Galleries, until 14 May

Chillida: Rhythm-Time-Silence

Ordovas, until 23 April

In 1896, a group of five young Swedish women artists began to meet regularly in order to access mystical zones beyond the confines of mundane everyday reality. Every Friday, they would gather in order to contact the incorporeal beings they called ‘spirit world leaders’ or ‘High Masters’; among these were five named Ananda, Clemens, Esther, Gregor and Amaliel.

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Taggedabstraction, Barry Flanagan, Hilma af Klint, Kandinsky, Ordovas, Painting, Sculpture, Serpentine Galleries, theosophy, Waddington Custot Galleries

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Is this female Swedish painter a major rediscovery - or a minor footnote?

Hilma af Klint may have been the first to abstraction, but was she any good at it? Plus: Barry Flanagan at Waddington Custot Galleries and Eduardo Chillida at Ordovas

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