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M.C. ESCHER. Tra arte e scienza<\/h1>

25 September 2025 \u2013 08 February 2026<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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M.C. Escher, Fish and scales<\/em>, 1959. Woodcut, 47.8 x 45.2 cm. The Hague, Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
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After a 10-year absence, MUDEC brings one of the most fascinating and recognizable artists of the 20th century, Maurits Cornelis Escher<\/strong> (Netherlands, 1898-1972), back to Milan with a major project entirely dedicated to him<\/strong> that offers a new look at his artistic journey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through 90<\/strong> of the artist’s works<\/strong> including etchings, watercolors, woodcuts and lithographs<\/strong>, as well as some 40 comparative Islamic pieces, the exhibition investigates the relationship between Escher and his sources of inspiration, following theartist’s evolution<\/strong>: from his Art Nouveau-related beginnings, through Italian landscapes, to his full maturity in which he developed the use of tessellations, metamorphic cycles, optical illusions and representations of infinity that made him famous through a unique visual language that combines art and mathematics<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That mathematics made not of the abstract reasoning of professional academics, but of a long, painstaking and passionate craftsmanship, based on a more intuitive and perceptive approach and leading to the fusion of art and science in a rigorous, inventive and deeply personal vision<\/strong>, in a common thread that strongly characterizes the exhibition itinerary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition also delves into an aspect that is still little known to the general public, namely the close relationship the artist had with<\/strong> Islamic art <\/strong>and how the use of symmetries, modular repetition and the abstract view of space – key elements of Islamic art – offered Escher a very important cue to overcome the naturalistic representation of reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the exhibition dwells on an Escher who made this “graphic universe<\/strong>“his stylistic signature also in his vast commercial production, recalling how his genius also confronted applied areas of graphic design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enriching the journey is a series of immersive multimedia installations<\/strong> curated by Maurits Srl, including an Infinity Room<\/em><\/strong> finale that takes visitors into a fascinating and immersive environment with a kaleidoscopic effect, thanks to the projection of high-definition animations inside a mirrored room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced by 24 ORE<\/strong> Cultura<\/strong> – 24 ORE Group<\/strong> and promoted by the City of Milan-Cultura<\/strong> with the support of sponsor Turisanda1924<\/strong> – part of Alpitour World,<\/strong> the exhibition is in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Den Haag<\/strong> and made possible thanks to the M.C. Escher Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientific committee, supported by the M. C. Escher Foundation and coordinated by Federico Giudiceandrea, based on a concept by Judith Kadee, Curator of the Kunstmusem Den Haag, consists of the curators Claudio Bartocci<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Geometry at the University of Genoa – for in-depth study of Escher’s links to mathematical and scientific aspects – Paul Branca<\/strong>, Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the Catholic University of Milan – to investigate the relationship with Islamic art – and Claudio Salsi<\/strong>, Professor of History of Drawing, Engraving and Graphics at the Catholic University of Milan – for a lunge on the artist’s graphic production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far from the fashions of his time, M.C. Escher was able to construct a unique visual language<\/strong>, capable of uniting East and West, intuition and logic, scientific rigor and imagination.<\/strong> A bridge between worlds only seemingly distant, which to this day continues to surprise, question and inspire. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n

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