Emma Kunz @ Serpentine Gallery, London

Emma Kunz
Serpentine Gallery, London
23 March - 19 May 2019

Emma Kunz

Work No. 003

Photo: © Emma Kunz Zentrum

Emma Kunz

Work No. 004

Photo: © Emma Kunz Zentrum

The first UK solo exhibition by the late Swiss healer, researcher and artist EMMA KUNZ (Brittnau, 1892 - 1963, Waldstatt) is conceived with artist Christodoulos Panayiotou.

Emma Kunz never received a formal arts education, yet from 1938 she produced hundreds of geometric drawings which were first exhibited in the early 1970s.

Her work was inspired by spiritualism and constructed using radiesthesia - a technique using pendulum to plan the structure of her drawings, each of which were completed in a single session.

Emma Kunz

Work No. 011

Photo: © Emma Kunz Zentrum

Emma Kunz

Work No. 013

Photo: © Emma Kunz Zentrum

Emma Kunz

Work No. 307

Photo: © Emma Kunz Zentrum

Emma Kunz

Work No. 513

Photo: © Emma Kunz Zentrum

Emma Kunz considered these drawings as images of energy fields from which she would formulate diagnoses for her patients or answers to questions she posed to her pendulum. Engaging with these varied phenomena, Emma Kunz's work explores philosophical and scientific themes that are not only rooted to her own times but also to the future; she predicted that her drawings were destined for the 21st Century.

Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
www.serpentinegalleries.org

Emma Kunz Zentrum
Steinbruchstrasse 5, CH-5436 Würenlos
www.emma-kunz.com