Previously unseen works from two modern artists – British artist Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) and Swiss artist and healer Emma Kunz (1892-1963) at the Marlborough and Serpentine Galleries in London, – both artists in their own different ways manipulating geometry and using shapes, proportion and line in their work. Pasmore was 16 years older than Kunz and started his career in geometric constructivism, creating architectural sculptures in three dimensions, linked to the art of Mondrian and others, before moving into more abstract forms.
Kunz believed that her geometric drawings connected with nature, through their energy and proportions, and their is a connection with architecture as these were the type of drawings that young architectural students in the 1960′s were tasked with creating to develop their eye for form, proportion, harmony and line. She considered herself not so much an artist as a healer and researcher of patterns in nature, having discovered that she had telepathy and extra-sensory powers which she used at the same time as she drew in her exercise books.
It is fascinating to compare and contrast these two near-contemporaries.