Hilma af KlintPiet Mondrian202349Tate Modern2

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Nabila Abdel NabiLaura StampsBriony Fer

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Zoe LeonardGabriel OrozcoRoni HornVija CelminsTacita Dean2018Tate Modern=Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20Anni AlbersMaria Muller-SchareckAnn CoxonUniversity College LondonBritish Academy

Featuring works never before seen in the UK, this paperback exhibition book will elucidate and invigorate our understanding of two ground-breaking artists and will be sure to get synapses firing.

Although they never met, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian shared a deep dynamic connection to the natural world and began their careers as landscape painters. For them, science and mysticism were not exclusive practices, but part of the same essential framework for understanding the life forces around them. Both artists engaged with science and esoteric thought as tools for exploring the underlying structures of nature and how they give meaning to art and life.

The catalogue explores both artists practices in rich detail. Natural forms are abstracted to their atomic levels; cells evolve, dividing and expanding the canvas in colour; sinuous stems spiral into the ether whilst the crystalline formations of grids stretch out to form an infinite universe.