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What to see THIS AUTUMN Photo: Helene Toresdotter
/Moderna Museet Hilma af Klint Moderna Museet Malmö are still giving its visitors an opportunity to become acquainted with the fascinating and ground-breaking Swedish artist Hilma af Klint in a comprehensive presentation. Before her death Af Klint created over 1,000 paintings, watercolors and sketches. Her spiritual beliefs inspired large, dreamy, magical paintings. In her will, she requested that her pioneering work would not be displayed publicly until 20 years after her burial, only then – she believed – would people be ready to fully understand their meaning. Back in 2013, Moderna Museet presented ”Hilma af Klint: Abstract Pioneer”, which became the most visited exhibition of a Swedish artist in the museum’s history. Since then, Hilma af Klint’s work has traveled the world, encountered new audiences, and won new recognition, most recently at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. This comprehensive exhibition will include “The Ten Largest”—ten paintings from 1907 in a monumental format and Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist, installationsbild Malmö Konsthall 2020. Courtesy Hassan Sharif Estate; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; gb agency, Paris; Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai Foto: Helene Toresdotter with a color palette that challenged the dominant canon of the day. The exhibition will feature further works from the series “The Paintings for the Temple” as well as a selection that examines the artist’s research into the natural world and how the visible and invisible worlds are connected. In addition, the extensive exhibition touches on the artist’s own thoughts about her work and its various methods. Hilma af Klint, artist, researcher, medium, on display until 27 September at Moderna Muséet Hassan Sharif Until his passing in 2016, Hassan Sharif (1951–2016), who lived and worked in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, was a pioneer of experimental contemporary art in the Middle East. The travelling exhibition Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist represents an opportunity for Malmö Konsthall to introduce this unique oeuvre, which was produced in a region of the world that Swedish audiences rarely get to access. Sharif is now regarded as one of the region’s most influential 20th century artists. Among younger Arabic-speaking artists, he is considered an important, established trailblazer, but it is only recently that his oeuvre has reached a broader audience in Europe. The travelling exhibition Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist is the largest and most comprehensive survey of Sharif’s work to date and his first major retrospective show in Europe. Despite being so influenced by Western art, Sharif developed an artistic idiom of his own, which reflected the landscape, society, 38 and visual culture he lived in, as well as the changes that they underwent during his lifetime. Hassan Sharif wanted to make art accessible to the general public, not just to art experts and collectors. This contributed to his early decision to work non-commercially, in the public spaces of the Emirate of Sharjah. He created his works out of cheap everyday materials, or mass-produced objects acquired from markets. Art can just as well be made from plastic cups, cutlery, flip-flops, blankets, or cheap toys as from any other material–this notion reflects his critical stance towards the consumer culture that emerged in the Gulf region after the discovery of oil. Many of the works in this exhibition explore the evolution of the city and of consumer society. Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist, is on display at Malmö Konsthall up until 10 January.