Oolite Arts presents Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint

Wednesday, May 13th at 7pm Oolite Arts in collaboration with O Cinema brings the Art Films series online with a free film screening of Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Halina Dyrschka and Oolite’s President/CEO Dennis Scholl. Please RSVP here to receive the link and code to access the free screening and post-film discussion.

This documentary explores the life and work of Hilma af Klint, she was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting.

The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an all-but-forgotten figure in art historical discourse, before her long-delayed rediscovery. Director Halina Dryschka’s dazzling, course correcting documentary describes not only the life and craft of af Klint, but also the process of her mischaracterization and erasure by both a patriarchal narrative
of artistic progress and capitalistic determination of artistic value.