3333 x 3333 px | 28,2 x 28,2 cm | 11,1 x 11,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1916
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These excerpts from the Guggenheim app feature insights from Tracey Bashkoff, Director of Collections and Senior Curator. Transcript Narrator: The Parsifal Series, from 1916, is a numbered sequence of 144 works on paper that are divided into groups, then divided once again into multiple parts. The series title may refer to the Arthurian legend in which Parsifal, one of the Knights of the Round Table, takes part in the quest for the Holy Grail. It may also refer to Richard Wagner’s popular 1882 opera based on that story. Tracey Bashkoff: The scale of this endeavor, and this dedication to this work, is quite remarkable. Hilma af Klint was working in series, and within those series, often in groups of works. And so it is interesting to see how an idea or an image develops. There is a sense of movement, or of progress, or working out of a concept over a series. Narrator: Like the legend of the Holy Grail, these paintings represent a search for spiritual knowledge through various levels of consciousness. The images that follow explode with chromatic gradations of color as the artist worked through different formal permutations to develop a visual rhythm in the overall series. Tiny, cryptic symbols are inscribed throughout, as are the Swedish words for forward, backward, downward, inward, outward, and upward. Tracey Bashkoff: All of the words that we see here are references to direction, and they’re written in ways that are visually connected to the direction that they’re indicating. So, the letters are strung together, are written forwards or backwards, or vertically or horizontally, based on the directional indication that they’re making - Guggenheim