(25 Sep 2025)
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Mudec, Milan, Italy – 24 September 2025
1. Various of an immersive installation that projects images of Escher’s works inside a mirrored room
2. Various of Escher’s works on display at the exhibition “M.C. Escher – Between art and science”
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Claudio Salsi, exhibition curator:
“Escher is a very popular figure, he’s pop. Everyone knows who he is. However, in reality, he’s a mysterious artist. First of all, because he’s very sparing with information about his art and the sources of his art. He’s more explicit about his purposes.”
4. Various of Escher’s ‘Part of Metamorphosis II’
5. Wide of gallery hall with Escher’s work on display
6. Zoom out of Escher’s Smaller and Smaller
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Judith Kadee, curator at Kunstmuseum Den Haag:
“Escher really loved this impossible versus possible. We expect something and then he plays with your expectations. Especially on a piece of paper, because it’s two dimensional, it’s flat. But he creates fantasy filled worlds, which seem three dimensional, but actually aren’t. And throughout all of his life, he found ways of portraying that in different ways."
8. Various of work by M.C. Escher
9. Tilt up of Escher’s Fish and Scales
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Paolo Branca, exhibition curator:
“Escher was a researcher, traveling extensively, as visitors to the exhibition will see. He also visited Italy, where he was influenced by the landscape while retaining its specific characteristics. For example, in his Italian landscapes, we notice that he leaves almost no empty spaces. Even the sky is completely streaked or filled with clouds, as if he wanted to go beyond the limits of the available surface. Thus, when he traveled to Andalusia and saw Islamic decorative art, he found a striking confirmation of this already present tendency."
11. Various of Escher’s works and objects representing Islamic art
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Judith Kadee, curator Kunstmuseum Den Haag:
”Escher is really one of a kind artist and what he really loved in Islamic art was sort of this search for geometry and symmetry, and the way a plane is filled as well. It’s something that sort of influenced him and inspired him a bit already from a young age and it stayed with him throughout the rest of his life and it actually influenced him until his later works."
13. Various of Escher’s works on display together with object related to Islamic art
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Claudio Salsi, exhibition curator:
“In Escher’s case, tessellations are a tool to represent the possibility of physically expanding the boundaries of the sensible world, creating a parallel world. Islamic art is an inspiration, but it also becomes a tool, once it has been appropriated from the perspective of its principles and compositional logic."
15. Various of Escher’s exhibition in Milan
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Judith Kadee, curator Kunstmuseum Den Haag:
“I think the power of Escher is that everyone can look at it and sort of find his trickery. And it’s something that in the museum that I work for, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, you see a grandfather and a child look at it together and figure out together what is going on in this artwork, but it’s very intricate. It’s graphic art, it’s printmaking, so there’s a lot of technique behind there, and there’s a lot of studying, of perspective for instance. So it’s simple, but it’s absolutely not as well."
17. Pan left of Escher’s Metamorphosis
18. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Paolo Branca, exhibition curator:
19. Tilt up of a map representing Escher’s travels
20. Various of exhibition entrance
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