The exhibition of the famous graph of the twentieth century, which opens tonight at MMSI, will feature more than 100 works - lithographs, engravings on metal and linocuts different periods

MMSI, December 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014
Ul. Petrovka , 25

Tonight at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens a personal exhibition of one of the key figures of twentieth century art , Maurits Cornelis Escher ( 1898-1972 ) . The exhibition is located on the second floor of the main building MMSI at Petrovka 25. More than 100 works, including lithographs , engravings on metal and linocuts different periods reveal creativity famous graph of the twentieth century . The exhibition also archival photos and films from the Escher Foundation in the Netherlands (MC Escher Foundation).

works in the exhibition are three periods of creativity Escher . The main part of the works related to the Italian period , which is based on landscapes, sketches of insects and plants , created during Escher travel to Italy, Corsica and Malta . The second half of the work refers to the Dutch period , the time of the highest creative heyday Escher when he created the most famous works . Will be presented and early work of Escher and his first published work , the book " St. Francis " (1922 ), sold in large quantities , which appear motifs characteristic for late work .

believed that schedule Escher influenced contemporary design and animation. Escher is known primarily for its surrealistic lithographs, woodcuts and metal, in which he explored the plastic aspects of concepts of infinity and symmetry , as well as characteristics of the psychological perception of complex three-dimensional objects and the " impossible figures ". Enchanted " impossible figures " and paradoxes in nature , Escher drew ideas of non-Euclidean geometry , interpreted the laws of mathematical papers and continued to explore form and space with optical illusions in his work .

Maurits Cornelis Escher Waterfall . October 1961 Lithograph © The MC Escher Company B.V. -Baarn-Holland All rights reserved. www.mcescher.com Source : Press Release MMSI

Despite the world-famous Escher exhibition in Russia of its previously held only once in the State Hermitage . The exhibition in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art allows you to see the most famous work of Escher and look at his work from the inside due to the archival materials . Exhibition " Escher " will be one of the most important events in the cultural scene in Moscow and a key part of the Year of the Netherlands in Russia in 2013 . The exhibition catalog has been published .

Source : press release MMSI