This is probably one of the best secrets that is not really a secret happening at the moment in Paris. A modest exhibition of paintings and drawings by the Swedish artist Hilda Af Klint, who lived between 1862-1944, is on view at the Swedish Cultural Institute in the Marais. Set in a beautiful hotel particuler, the Institute also boasts a great little café with delicious coffee and Swedish pastries.

Hilma Af Klint has come somewhat into vogue recently and this is a very good thing. In fact her work was not exhibited following her death until 1986, and this, I believe, was her doing. She had asked that her work not be shown for 20 years after her death. I am not sure exactly why…just know I read it at the exhibition. In any case, she was a pioneer in the field of abstraction in art. She pushed herself further and further into realms of spirituality, in particular with Rudolf Steiner, and the Theosophical movement founded by Madame Blavatsky, which focused on mediumistic séances.

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