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Suzan Frecon: painting

By: Suzan Frecon

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The result of a deliberative process guided by careful attention to spatial relationships, Suzan Frecon’s large-scale oil paintings are composed of asymmetrical curves that result in minor and major measured areas of color. Accompanying the artist’s solo exhibitions at David Zwirner, New York and London, in 2017, this publication features a selection of new monumental paintings carefully reproduced both as individual works and in installation views to best convey the experience of seeing the work. Depending on the viewer’s position and the time of day, the contrasts of matte and sheen, positive and negative, and immediacy and radiance combine to create an ongoing visual experience of always varying subtleties. In contrast to the paintings, Frecon’s watercolors, also featured here, engage the relationship between paint and paper support. Each predetermined sheet—often from an agate-burnished old Indian ledger page—has its own innate character, properties, and irregular shape; its creases, holes, blemishes, and even faint writings become an integral component of the final watercolor. “Their truth is the paint,” Frecon says, and in a specially commissioned essay acclaimed art historian Richard Shiff examines the new body of work in relationship to painting and the experience of looking.

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Hilma Af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

By: Hilma af Klint,Julia Voss,Susan Aberth,Suzan Frecon,Max Rosenberg,Joy Harjo,Helen Molesworth

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Hilma Af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

By: Hilma af Klint,Julia Voss,Susan Aberth,Suzan Frecon,Max Rosenberg,Joy Harjo,Helen Molesworth

The first detailed survey of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s groundbreaking Tree of Knowledge series “Revelatory and sublime. . . . Her work remains conceptually open enough for viewers to draw their own conclusions, insert their own meaning and feel transported to other glorious worlds.” —The New York Times One of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century, af Klint was a pioneer of abstraction. Her first forays into nonobjective painting preceded the work of Kandinsky and Mondrian and radically mined the fields of science and religion. Deeply interested in spiritualism and philosophy, af Klint developed an iconography that explores esoteric concepts in metaphysics, as demonstrated in Tree of Knowledge. This rarely seen series of works on paper renders orbital, enigmatic forms, visual allegories of unification and separateness, darkness and light, beginning and end, life and death, and spirit and matter. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge at David Zwirner, New York, in 2021 and David Zwirner, London, in 2022, this book features a text by the art historian Susan Aberth examining af Klint’s spiritual and theosophical influences. With a conversation between curator Helen Molesworth and the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discussing connections between Tree of Knowledge and Native theories, the publication broadens the scope of philosophical interpretations of af Klint's timeless work. Also included is a newly commissioned essay by the celebrated af Klint scholar Julia Voss, a contribution by the artist Suzan Frecon, and a text by art historian Max Rosenberg that further develops the conversation around why af Klint’s work was not recognized in its time.

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Simon and Schuster

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Hilma Af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

By: Hilma af Klint,Julia Voss,Susan Aberth,Suzan Frecon,Max Rosenberg,Joy Harjo,Helen Molesworth

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By: Hilma af Klint,Julia Voss,Susan Aberth,Suzan Frecon,Max Rosenberg,Joy Harjo,Helen Molesworth

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Suzan Frecon: painting

Suzan Frecon: painting

Hilma Af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

Hilma Af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

Hilma Af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

Hilma Af Klint: Tree of Knowledge

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