An Escher anthology in Florence, featuring some 200 works and his most iconic masterpieces

The Museo degli Innocenti in Florence will host the Escher exhibition dedicated to Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher from October 20, 2022 to May 7, 2023. Ananthological exhibition that will display some two hundred works and the most representative works that made him famous worldwide. It will feature the most iconic masterpieces of his production, such as Hand with Reflecting Sphere (1935), Bond of Union (1956), Metamorphosis II (1939), Day and Night (1938) and the Emblemata series, which belong to the common imagination associated with the great artist.

Born in 1898 in Holland, he visited Italy for the first time in 1922, where he lived for many years: he visited it from north to south and represented it in many of his works. Restless, reserved and ingenious, Escher in his famous engravings and lithographs created a unique, imaginative, impossible world where art, mathematics, science, physics and design converge.

Escher’s exhibition takes the form of the first major exhibition event within the monumental complex of the Museo degli Innocenti; the museum has been transformed into a pathway that allows visitors to discover a cultural heritage that is unique in the world because it is profoundly linked to the work done in favor of children who could not be raised by their families of origin. Between history, art, and architecture, the museum collection features works acquired through donations or as a result of the amalgamation of other welfare institutions and includes a number of masterpieces by outstanding artists, including Domenico Ghirlandaio, Luca and Andrea della Robbia, Sandro Botticelli, and Piero di Cosimo, as well as artists who grew up at the Innocenti and were initiated into painting by Prior Vincenzo Borghini, such as Vincenzo Ulivieri, Giovan Battista Naldini, and Francesco Morandini known as Poppi.

The exhibition is produced and organized by Arthemisia in collaboration with the M. C. Escher Foundation, Maurits and In Your Event, and is curated by Mark Veldhuysen, CEO of the M.C. Escher Company, and Federico Giudiceandrea, among the world’s leading Escher experts. Under the patronage of the City of Florence, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,

The catalog is published by Maurits.

For info: https://www.mostraescher.it/

Image: Maurits Cornelis Escher, Hand with Reflecting Sphere (1935; lithograph, 31.1 x 21.3 cm; Bolzano, Maurits Collection) © 2022 The M.C. Escher Company. All rights reserved

An Escher anthology in Florence, featuring some 200 works and his most iconic masterpieces

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