The Art of Abstraction
Wind through a maze of colour, shape and form to discover the pioneers of abstract art.
Our story begins in Sweden in 1906. Hilma af Klint, formerly a traditional landscape painter from Stockholm, started to create radical works of art made up of only abstract shapes and fervent colour to convey spiritual meaning. A form of art that would become known as pure abstraction.
In the years that followed, abstraction flourished as an art form in Europe. Artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian tore up the rule book of traditional representational art, to liberate colour and composition. Through abstract art they could express spiritual experiences, inner thoughts and feelings, and external social and political realities, without directly relating to our visual world.
The Art of Abstraction showcases the pioneers of abstract art using contemporary technology. Enter the maze and bask in colour and light. As their abstract compositions move and dance; shapes and forms bleed through the material in an ever-continuous journey of abstraction.
