04 transforming house
The largest gallery shows Escher’s research around the subject of “regular division of the plane”.
After climbing a staircase to a height of 3 meters above ground level, there is a gallery area that also serve as a viewing deck, from which the visitors can look down to the 60 meter long and 6-meter high gallery, displaying the largest house installation of the exhibition.
Four black exterior houses, as if turned inside-out, gradually open their roofs until the aisles between them are becoming houses themselves, resulting in a row of five white houses.
Slowly descending through a gentle slope, the visitors gradually change their perspective until they can walk freely between the houses and experience the space while discovering 17 artworks placed sporadically throughout the structures.
Most of the pieces presented in this area can be viewed in 360 degrees, therefore they were placed horizontally in display cases hidden in houses or between them.
When the visitors move along this space, they walk “inside” of black exterior and white interior houses, but suddenly would find themselves walking on the “outside” of white exterior and black interior houses; a transition that is reminiscent of the more elaborated regular plane divisions.
Moreover, when the visitors view this installation from the higher viewing point, the houses seem like a two-dimensional plane division, however when changing their point of view and walking through them, it is as if they are walking into an artwork and inside of Escher’s mind.
