Art exhibitions

Hilma af Klint, Tree of life n°5 (c) The Hilma af Klint Foundation

This week I have had the chance to discover two wonderful exhibitions.

One was centered around Hilma af Klint. Considered to be one of the first abstract painters, she painted classical landscapes and portraits for a living, but secretly painted abstracts, under the inspiration of Spirits. Her abstract paintings were revealed to the public 40 years after her death in 1986. She uses a lot of colours and geometrical figures, circles, spirals, triangles... More here.

Peter Doig, Milky Way, (c) courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery

The other was about Peter Doig. A contemporary artist, he paints a lot of strange landscapes. Watching his work, I had the impression of seing spiritual messages everywhere, as if the landscapes and figures were distorted because seen through the eyes of the soul rather than the physical eyes. I fell in love with "Milky Way" (above) and "Grand Riviere" in which there is a white horse and... ravens ?

More on the artist here (Tate Britain).

Traces du Sacré

Yesterday we went to see the exhibition "Traces du Sacré", an exploration of the relations between art and spirituality in the 20th Century.

Many beautiful paintings were to be seen. I was moved in particular by paintings from the US psychedelic art movement. There were two major painting by Isaac Abrams : All Things are OneThing and Flying Leap.

(c) Isaac Abrams - All Things are One Thing

(c) Isaac Abrams - Flying Leap

And also by the famous Franz Marc painting :

(c) Franz Marc - Horse in a Landscape (1910)

Horse Spirit

About two years ago, I met this horse. He spoke about freedom and social behaviour. I was very impressed. True, it was during a Holotropic Breathwork session, but nonetheless, I was impressed. I'd heard and read about such things but never thought it could happen to a plain girl like me. The power of dreams.

Around the same time I got interested in beading again. Seriously interested. But being sometimes very shy and slow, I just bought sterling silver charms, thread and beads and left things at that for a moment. Well, I did wear a horse charm on a yellow cotton thread for a while -I was afraid to curb his freedom if I strung him somewhere definitely.

Then, being interviewed for a special job on Monday (for Swarovky !), I decided to make a necklace featuring my horse charm...

Here it is, in seed beads, cristals, bali silver and ebony beads. When I move the horse seems to run. It's not perfect, and I didn't get the job, but I'm pleased !!! I like the orange seed beads that remind me of a knitted shawl I used to wear as a toddler.