Your browser does not support the video tag.
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Marco Cadioli - The Whirlpool
  • © ARSHAKE | ISSN 2283-3676
  • CONTACT
  • Login
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Fotonica Festival in Rome

    Fotonica Festival in Rome

    Paola Di Mitri at Romaeuropa Festival

    Interview | Luca Pagan at REF23

    Paola Di Mitri at Romaeuropa Festival

    Paola Di Mitri at Romaeuropa Festival

    Alva Noto and Ensemble Modern at REF23

    Alva Noto and Ensemble Modern at REF23

    Fiorella Rizzo at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome

    Fiorella Rizzo at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome

    Susan Kennedy at Romaeuropa Festival 2023

    Susan Kennedy at Romaeuropa Festival 2023

  • FRAME
    FRAME > Metamorphosis Garden

    FRAME > Metamorphosis Garden

    FRAME > Aggregate Pavilion

    FRAME > Aggregate Pavilion

    FRAME > Horizon

    FRAME > Horizon

    FRAME > Light and Space

    FRAME > Light and Space

    FRAME > FANGØ

    FRAME > FANGØ

    FRAME > Feedback System

    FRAME > Feedback System

    FRAME > STARDUST

    FRAME > STARDUST

    FRAME > MOBILE

    FRAME > MOBILE

    FRAME > SUIT

    FRAME > SUIT

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > THE ISOLATED ENSEMBLE

    VIDEO POST > THE ISOLATED ENSEMBLE

    VIDEO POST > CROSSES

    VIDEO POST > CROSSES

    VIDEO POST > TH-50PH10EK WALL

    VIDEO POST > TH-50PH10EK WALL

    VIDEO POST > Critical Climate Machine

    VIDEO POST > Critical Climate Machine

    VIDEO POST > Avatar Piano Project

    VIDEO POST > Avatar Piano Project

    VIDEO POST > Waves of Code

    VIDEO POST > Waves of Code

    VIDEO POST > Moon Arrow

    VIDEO POST > Moon Arrow

    VIDEO POST > AIR

    VIDEO POST > AIR

    VIDEO POST > Sound Fossil III. Lines

    VIDEO POST > Sound Fossil III. Lines

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVIO
  • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
  • GAME OVER
  • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
  • GAME OVER • LOADING
  • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
  • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
  • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • CALLS
  • ONLINE RESOUCES
  • it IT
  • en English
No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Fotonica Festival in Rome

    Fotonica Festival in Rome

    Paola Di Mitri at Romaeuropa Festival

    Interview | Luca Pagan at REF23

    Paola Di Mitri at Romaeuropa Festival

    Paola Di Mitri at Romaeuropa Festival

    Alva Noto and Ensemble Modern at REF23

    Alva Noto and Ensemble Modern at REF23

    Fiorella Rizzo at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome

    Fiorella Rizzo at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome

    Susan Kennedy at Romaeuropa Festival 2023

    Susan Kennedy at Romaeuropa Festival 2023

  • FRAME
    FRAME > Metamorphosis Garden

    FRAME > Metamorphosis Garden

    FRAME > Aggregate Pavilion

    FRAME > Aggregate Pavilion

    FRAME > Horizon

    FRAME > Horizon

    FRAME > Light and Space

    FRAME > Light and Space

    FRAME > FANGØ

    FRAME > FANGØ

    FRAME > Feedback System

    FRAME > Feedback System

    FRAME > STARDUST

    FRAME > STARDUST

    FRAME > MOBILE

    FRAME > MOBILE

    FRAME > SUIT

    FRAME > SUIT

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > THE ISOLATED ENSEMBLE

    VIDEO POST > THE ISOLATED ENSEMBLE

    VIDEO POST > CROSSES

    VIDEO POST > CROSSES

    VIDEO POST > TH-50PH10EK WALL

    VIDEO POST > TH-50PH10EK WALL

    VIDEO POST > Critical Climate Machine

    VIDEO POST > Critical Climate Machine

    VIDEO POST > Avatar Piano Project

    VIDEO POST > Avatar Piano Project

    VIDEO POST > Waves of Code

    VIDEO POST > Waves of Code

    VIDEO POST > Moon Arrow

    VIDEO POST > Moon Arrow

    VIDEO POST > AIR

    VIDEO POST > AIR

    VIDEO POST > Sound Fossil III. Lines

    VIDEO POST > Sound Fossil III. Lines

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVIO
  • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
  • GAME OVER
  • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
  • GAME OVER • LOADING
  • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
  • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
  • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • CALLS
  • ONLINE RESOUCES
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
No Result
View All Result
Home News focus

The Enigma Escher

Flaminio Gualdoni by Flaminio Gualdoni
02/12/2013
in focus

389 Relativity 1953 Lithographm

For an entire generation, Escher was best known as the author of the cover of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomiche (1965). He was interpreted as a kind of Piranesi of geometry, a psychology of perception-based, surreal inventor etc. Essentially, he was a graphic designer who found a dimension which had more to do with the story of the page than with painting: from the very first glance his pages look like the natural residents of a surreal 16th century book or – better yet – cryptic wisdom literature from the 17th century. In fact, Escher minimized the technical component of his approach because he worked exclusively on vision. Escher had reached his artistic maturity by the mid-1930s and took on a summation of past and current suggestions. His approach was purely in terms of being seen: codes, convention, rules and conditions that the interpretation of an image has to offer. A master of ambiguous perception and geometric shapes so methodologically sharp that they are lost within themselves, Escher systematically targeted his work to the point of dissolving the very rule: an elusive world emerges from his extremely precise order; a sort of post-logical chaos dominates the ordinary experience. What it all comes down to is that what we love most about his work is the constant estrangement and a certain flair which exists somewhere between paradox and poetry that feeds his abundant repertoire of visual expedients. Essentially, they are none other than visual ploys.

–This text was translated from the original Italian version that appeared on Flamio Gualdoni‘s website and that is here re-published under concession of its author–

L’enigma Escher. Paradossi grafici tra arte e geometria, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, until 23 February 2014. Info: www.palazzomagnani.it 

Images

(1 cover) Maurits Cornelis Escher, Giorno e notte, 1938, xilography, two colors, 39,3 X 67,8 cm; (2) Maurits Cornelis Escher, Relatività, luglio 1953, litography, 277 x 292

ShareTweetShareSend
Previous Post

FRAME > Pawel Kuczynski

Next Post

The new landscape of video – mapping 3D

Next Post

The new landscape of video - mapping 3D

CALLS

Call for submissions> MUSAE OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS S+T+ARTS Residency
Calls

Call for submissions> MUSAE OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS S+T+ARTS Residency

29/05/2023
Driving Energy Terna Award 2023
Calls

Driving Energy Terna Award 2023

22/02/2023
S+T+ARTS Prize 2023
Calls

S+T+ARTS Prize 2023

04/02/2023
RE:HUMANISM Art Prize: SPARKS AND FRICTIONS
Calls

RE:HUMANISM Art Prize: SPARKS AND FRICTIONS

01/02/2023

CRITICAL GROUNDS

Critical Gounds #13 – Massimo Maiorino, The Artist as Archaeologist.
Critical Grounds

Critical Gounds #13 – Massimo Maiorino, The Artist as Archaeologist.

08/07/2020
Critical Gounds #12 – Filiberto Menna «PROGETTARE» IL FUTURO
Critical Grounds

Critical Gounds #12 – Filiberto Menna «PROGETTARE» IL FUTURO

26/11/2019
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Arshake is a collaborative artistic project, blurring the borders between art, science and technology, information and production.

  • Focus
  • Video post
  • Frame
  • Special Project
  • Interview
  • Calls
  • Exhibitions

One more step - Check your email and click the confirmation link

© 2012-2023 – ARSHAKE

No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
  • FRAME
  • VIDEO POST
  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVIO

© 2012-2023 – ARSHAKE

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.