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5 things you need to know about ArtScience Museum’s new exhibition

SINGAPORE — Here are five interesting — at times mind-boggling — interactives you can check out at the Journey to Infinity: Escher’s World of Wonder exhibition before heading over to FabCafe for a cuppa. These unique interactives are specially developed to engage and educate visitors of all ages on the scientific concepts behind MC Escher’s work — namely tessellation, metamorphosis, optical illusions, and concepts of infinity. But you can also visit if you are just up for some good-old messing-with-your-mind type of fun while taking the perfect Instagram shot.

SINGAPORE — Here are five interesting — at times mind-boggling — interactives you can check out at the Journey to Infinity: Escher’s World of Wonder exhibition before heading over to FabCafe for a cuppa. These unique interactives are specially developed to engage and educate visitors of all ages on the scientific concepts behind MC Escher’s work — namely tessellation, metamorphosis, optical illusions, and concepts of infinity. But you can also visit if you are just up for some good-old messing-with-your-mind type of fun while taking the perfect Instagram shot.

TESSELLATIONS

Ever wanted to learn more about tessellations, those repeated geometric patterns taught during maths in school? This puzzle activity (above) invites visitors to explore the potential of tessellation with a large-scale Escher-inspired puzzle, through which you can discover the fascination of tessellations that inspired Escher to combine mathematics with art and design in his work. Or just enjoy playing around with a friendly pink-coloured puzzle half the size of a room.

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

In this room (above), visitors can play with the room’s proportions to create distorted illusions of size. Escher had a fascination with exploring the peculiar problems of depicting perspective, and liked to create seemingly strange and impossible environments through his body of work. The Relativity Room brings that experience to life for visitors.

SINGAPORE'S METAMORPHASIS

Taking inspiration from Escher’s Metamorphosis II, students and alumni of Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Interactive & Digital Media have created a piece to illustrate the evolution of Singapore. Using Escher’s style of illustration and patterns, the work follows the nation’s journey from a fishing village to a bustling Garden City, allowing visitors to witness shapes morphing into different forms.

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

The Mirror Room (above) is yet another Instagram-friendly setting, where visitors can view the walls lined with mirrors creating infinite reflections of the fish-shaped figures on display. Through the illusion of mirrors and the similar fish figures inspired by Escher’s work, the Mirror Room attempts to show Escher’s concepts.

MIND-BENDING SPHERES

If you feel that your mind has not been messed with enough, you can check out these reflective convex and concave spheres set at varying levels, providing distorted reflections that make you look all sorts of ridiculous while illustrating the different effects of curved surfaces at different heights.

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