Fasfem watches : BEYOND THE VISIBLE, Hilma af Klint
When I came across one of her paintings - first in row on the gallery below - I felt the familiarity giving me the goosebumps. It reminded me of fasfem palette, the colours I had chosen to create my mood board for my site’s design. It was only three years ago …but the painting dated back to 1907!
It was by a Passerbuy’s post on Instagram that I was intrigued and did some more research on the lady behind those marvelous huge paintings, my palette’s ancestor included:
Hilma af Klint. Born in Sweden in !862, studied arts and lived all her life there. Weared black, always. Being spiritual has urged her to create a group with four other female artists called De Fem. Made seances with them - it was the thing for intellectuals back then as quantum physic’s foundations were established which explored the unknown. She created hundreds of abstract paintings, before Mondrian and Kandinsky ever did. But we never knew that until recently..her art was firstly shown in Los Angeles in 1986 and the exhibition at Guggenheim Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future is the most recent.
But I wanted to know; why was this genius kept away from the history of art? Maybe because it has been the history of male genius thus far? What about the future though? I have decided to watch the documentary by Halina Dryschka to find out. Would you care to join me?
Helmstedt
As long as I can remember myself obsessioning over fashion, one thing has never ceased to amaze me; artful expression on the textile. There is something thrilling on watching plain canvas to transfrom into a wearable piece of material.
There is a creative lady up in the North who uses her brushes and fingers as magical wands. Whatever they touch - be it paper, clay or fabric - gets transformed into poetic version of matter. Matter we can use. Matter - in case of fabric - we can actually wear :
This fairy of a designer is Emilie Helmstedt, creator of the awarded brand Helmstedt.
In her Copenhagen based studio her collections coexist with papier -mâché sculptures and poems. As you can she from the gallery above her creations are unexpected sometimes yet so delightful! All prints are handpainted by her before transported onto fabric. Dreamy dresses, every day objects and huge sculptures are giving us an optimistic view of this world, world where we:
“Take care of not only ourselves and each other, but also cherish the environment.”
Emilie is only 27 years old and already highly recognized in contemporary fashion scene as a very creative and talented disigner. Here you can she the cover page she created for ELLE Danmark January 2021 edition. It has a message of hope and creativity hidden at the center of it…can you spot it?
Yes, Emilie is bringing a child to this world this April…
What I find really hopeful in the development of Helmstedt is that one of the brand’s main interests is stable growth and a humanist approach to the way they do business. For example, due to covit pandemic situation, they created the line ‘Staycation’ last August with reduced prices so as to be more affordable to all brand’s lovers worlwide.
I will leave you now to enjoy Emilie herself describing you the way she finds inspiration and creates: