Paris exhibition celebrates the visionary world of Hilma af Klint, an artist ahead of her time

Several years before Mondrian and Kandinsky were believed to have pioneered visual abstraction, a young Swedish woman named Hilma af Klint produced a series of strikingly original artworks that were way ahead of their time. Long hidden away from the world in a secret vault, her major work, the “Paintings for the Temple”, is now on display in France for the first time at a groundbreaking exhibition at Paris’s Grand Palais.