02 arising house

The first gallery of the exhibition shows Escher’s early and less familiar works executed in the beginning of his career.
A long white bench placed in the middle of a seemingly modest gallery space allows visitors to linger in front of the detailed prints. To express the idea of Escher’s formative years and the process of finding his style as an artist, knee-high house shapes gradually emerge out of the rectangular bench. In a closer look it becomes apparent that on one side of the bench the houses are sliding out, while on the other side, the negative shapes of the house are shifting outwards and by so revealing the houses left behind. Both sides of the bench as well as its front and back are inverted and mirrored to fully render the concept of Escher’s early career.