Trip Hoppin’ w/Escher

A master manipulator of architecture and perspective, creator of geometric paradoxes, aka M.C. Escher.

Extase, 1922
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (M.C. Escher’s mentor)
Woodcut

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Castle in the Air, 1928
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut

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Tower of Babel, 1928
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut

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Emblemata, 1932
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut

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Dream (Mantis Religiosa), 1935
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut

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Tropea, Calabria, 1931
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Lithograph

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Lion of the Fountain in the Piazza at Ravello, 1932
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Wood engraving

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”The crucial turning point in Escher’s artistic development was his second trip to Southern Spain in 1936. There, he visited famous Moorish architectural landmarks, such as the Alhambra Palace in Granada and the Mezquita in Cordoba. These visits inspired him to methodically study the patterns that 14th-century artisans used to decorate the walls and the arches of the Moorish monuments. He then developed a passion for tessellation: geometric decoration in which triangles, stars or squares are repeated like tiles to cover a plane without leaving any gaps. He meticulously produced 137 watercolours showing different motifs of tessellation in an exercise book. These motifs represented 17 different ways of filling a flat surface with regular patterns and included a study of various colouring possibilities.”

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Hand with Reflecting Sphere (self-portrait) in Spherical Mirror, 1935
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Lithograph

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Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell), 1960
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut, printed from two blocks

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Circle Limit III, 1959
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut, printed from five blocks

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Depth, 1955
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Wood engraving and woodcut, printed from three blocks

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Drawing Hands, 1948
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Lithograph

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Ascending and Descending, 1960
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Lithograph

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From ”Escher: The Exhibition and Experience” – a travelling exhibition that ran in Industry City from June 2018 February 2019.

Brooklyn, N.Y.

August 4th, 2018