At Mudec a new look at the evolution of Escher, between science and Islamic influences – Milan – Arte.it

Milan – Birds, fishing, people, horses. But also symmetries, modular repetitions, important elements of Islamic piece, mathematical schemes that return to emphasize how many Escher’s poetics are influenced by “others” cultural models.
The aim is to investigate an aspect that little is known to the general public – the close relationship of Maurits Cornelis Escher, the artist of Impossible Architecture, with Islamic art – the new exhibition Mc Escher. Between art and scienceEdited by Claudio Bartocci, Paolo Branca, Claudio Salsi, set up in the Mudec in Milan Until February 8And who, after ten years of absence, returns to the city, a more fascinating and recognizable teachers of the twentieth century.

Optical Illusions, Taxellazioni, Metamorphosis, An Integral Part of A Unique Visual Language That Combines Art With Mathematics, The Result of A Long, Meticulous and Passionate Work Based On A More Intuitive and Perceptive Approach, Mehquita and The Alhaambra and The Alhaambraa and The Alhaambraa and The Alhaambraa and The Alhaambraa and the Alhaambraa and The Alhaambraa and The Alhaambraa and The Alhaambraa and The Alhaambraa, Sources of Inspiration in the Construction of the Graphic Universe that characterizes the style that characterizes the style that characterizes the style that characterizes the style that distinguishes the Dutch artist.

“According to certain systems, a plan can be subdivided into geometric figures, the forms of which can be varied and extremely complex for an indefinite period of time, while the rule is respected to fill the plan with congruent figures and rhythmic repetition, without empty spaces. Restrictions imposed by the rules of the game in 1947, so in 194, he wrote, in 1947, he wrote, in 1947, in 1947, he wrote, so, in 1947,, in 1947, in 1947, in 19477777777, Magazine of the visual arts, the meaning of “toilet”.

Mc Escher. Between art and science, Set -Up | Photo: © Carlotta Coppo | Courtesy Mudec

The route remembers that the genius of Escher confronted to graphic design, of artistic prints in separate sheets, to illustrations, books with books and magazines, ex -library, decorative motifs for gift paper, fabrics, banknotes. Commission activities that represented the fertile ground for the artist to refine his visual language.

Produced by 24 hours of Culture-24-hour group and promoted by the municipality of Milan-Culture with the support of Tourist1924 and with the patronage of the Embassy and Consulate General of the Netherlands in Italy, the exhibition was born in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Denhaag, the Defectus Museum, and is the world in the world in the world in the world in the world in the world, and is the world in the world in the world in the world, and the Esscher, and the Esscher, and the Esscher, and the Esscher, and the Esscher, and the Esscher, and the Esscher, and the Esscher’s largest museum, and that Defectus Museum, which is born in the world in the world’s largest MC Escher, and it is possible in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Denhaag, the Defectus Museum, which was born the largest MC Escher in the world in the world.
Through 90 Works Between Engravings, Watercolors, Woodcuts and Lithographs, Next to over 40 Islamic Objects of Comparary from the Art Museum Den Haag and Other Milanese Museums Including The Mudec and The Sforzesco Castle of the Stylining The Stylining’s Influenced by art nouveau to full maturity, in which Mc Escher Develops a sophisticated use or taxellazioni, metamorphic cycles, optical illusions and representations of infinite.

Mc Escher. Between art and science, Set -Up | Photo: © Carlotta Coppo | Courtesy Mudec

Already 1926 the meticulous attention was paid to the properties of symmetry, with regard to both the design and the colors, clearly in the design of the tiles for the floors of the apartment in Rome, in Via Poerio. However, Escher will pass ten years before he systematically investigates the regular Taxellazioni of the Euclideo plan and on the corresponding 17 crystallographic groups of the plan. A choice that results from reading some scientific articles that were later published in Crystallography and Meeting magazines, with the mathematician Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter who marked the start of a new phase in his artistic research.