Emma Kunz, artist and art
Born 1892, Birth Brittnau, Aargau region, Switzerland.
Died 1963
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The Spiritual in Art
The Emma Kunz Center is situated at the source of AION A in order to preserve the findings of Emma Kunz…
Born into a family of Swiss weavers in 1892, visionary artist Emma Kunz created pulsing, mandala-like grids which she regularly used as instruments of healing. Abstract, lush, enigmatic and illusionistic, each diagram was reportedly drawn by Kunz in a single sitting.
This major touring historical exhibition, co-curated by Catherine de Zegher and Hendel Teicher, presented the work of three pioneering women artists: Hilma af Klint (Sweden, 1862–1944), Emma Kunz (Switzerland, 1892–1963), and Agnes Martin (Canada/U.S., 1912–2004). These three artists, each from a different generation spanning the last one hundred years, approached geometric abstraction not as formalism, but as a means of visualizing philosophical, scientific, and transcendental ideas. 3 x Abstraction introduced the work of af Klint and Kunz—which has been eclipsed for so long—and revisited Martin’s work from a new perspective…
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