穿越二维三维的奇幻之旅 | Escher x nendo 澳大利亚 NGV 展览_家装空间_设计案例作品

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将 Escher 的二维艺术以三维方式呈现，打造令人沉浸的观展体验。

Title: Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds

Posted In: Exhibition

Duration: 02 December 2018 to 07 April 2019

Venue: National Gallery of Victoria

Opening Hours: Daily 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Location: 180 Saint Kilda Road Melbourne Australia

Even if you don’t know his name, you most certainly have come across some of Dutch artist M. C. Escher ’s iconic, mind-bending prints, such as Drawing Hands (1948), the image of two hands drawing each other with a pencil, and Relativity (1953), an impossible, space-distorting interior of conflicting gravitational forces. ' Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds ' at Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne showcases Escher’s extraordinary work in an immersive exhibition masterminded by Japanese studio nendo , one of the 21st century’s most inventive designers. As part of NVG’s strategy to forge creative links between the world’s most prominent artists and designers, the exhibition not only allows the public to view Escher’s fantastical prints and drawings up close but also to experience his two-dimensional work in a three-dimensional reality that transcends traditional gallery displays. Covering the full span of his career, from 1916 through to his final work produced in 1969, the show features more than 150 of Escher’s most renowned prints and drawings from the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, grouped in thematic displays designed by nendo as a physical embodiment of the artist’s ideas and interests. Varying in scale and spatial impact, and employing a variety of mediums, from architecture and furniture design, to lighting and animation, the series of immersive installations enable visitors to view Escher’s work in new, thought-provoking ways. “It’s as if they are walking inside Escher’s mind, but seeing the exhibition through their own eyes”, as nendo’s chief designer and founder Oki Sato explains.

Installation view of M.C. Escher, Self-portrait , at Escher x nendo | Between Two Worlds, on display at NGV International from 2 December 2018 – 7 April 2019 © The M. C. Escher Company, the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Photo by Eugene Hyland.

Installation view of M.C. Escher, Drawing hands , at Escher x nendo | Between Two Worlds, on display at NGV International from 2 December 2018 – 7 April 2019 © The M. C. Escher Company, the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Photo by Eugene Hyland. Featuring impossible architectural structures, endless staircases and repetitive infinity patterns, Escher mind-boggling work challenges established notions around space, time and the everyday world. Acknowledged as a master of optical illusion, Escher’s lifelong subject was the innate artificiality of the drawn image. Based on logical, math-based ideas and underpinned by extraordinary draughtsmanship, Esher’s prints are intricate visual puzzles, made all the more potent by the orderliness of his compositions and the ordinariness of his subjects. As Escher declared in a 1963 lecture, “if you want to express something impossible, you must keep to certain rules. The element of mystery to which you want to draw attention should be surrounded and veiled by a quite obvious, readily recognisable commonness”. The importance of rules explains Escher’s predilection for laborious printmaking techniques, namely woodcut, lithography and mezzotint, each with its own limitation demanding strict discipline. Woodcut and wood engravings in particular, of which he singlehandedly made over 300—all meticulously carved by hand using either the back of a small ivory spoon or a rolling pin for larger works—was his favourite techniques, exemplifying his practice of creating something highly complex out of something seemingly simple. A similar philosophy underpins nendo’s exhibition design which is centred on the simplicity of a house motif. Inspired by Escher’s logic-based processes, the humble house motif is inventively transformed in each section in a creative dialogue with Escher’s themes and ideas.