In yesterday's post we looked at graph-like patterns in art and fashion, an extremely inspiring topic. Let's continue the thread for another day by focusing on Emma Kunz's artworks, currently on display at the 55th International Venice Art Biennale (all the works showcased have no date, but are numbered - example "Work N. 004", "Work No.012" and so on).
Kunz was born in Brittnau, Switzerland, in 1932 from a family of impoverished weavers. When she was still a child she realised she had paranormal abilities, including telepathy and healing powers, and ended up developing radiesthesia, a form of divination employing energy fields, when she was at school. From then on she began to extensively draw in her notebooks.
At the end of the '30s she started her healing practice and began making elaborate large-scale geometric drawings using pencils and colour crayons on millimeter graph paper.
Kunz would produce her works in a single session guided by a pendulum that she would consult to liberate her inner vision. The drawings were part of a healing ritual and therefore she didn't consider them as art.
Kunz would lay out the drawings on the floor between her and her patient and try and divine energy disruptions. Her drawings were also supposed to transform negative energy and didn't have any kind of connection with religious or cultural beliefs, but were the result of her own personal ideology and practice.
While she considered herself as a researcher and not as an artist (her researches into healing led her to the discovery in 1941 of the Würenlos healing rock that she named AION A), the value of her drawings - that can also be admired at the Emma Kunz Centre in Würenlos Switzerland - have gradually been recognised in more recent years and the first exhibition of her works was organised in 1973, ten years after her death.
One of the most inspiring aspects of her compositions or abstract energetic structures is the way she employed intricate lines to weave a modern language of geometry. As she once stated: "My drawings are designed for the 21st century. They also convey composition and form as dimension, rhythm, symbol and transformation of numbers and principles."
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