COMUNICACIÓN Y PRENSA

The Parque de las Ciencias of Granada and the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife has published the catalogue of the exhibition M.C. Escher. Universos infinitos. The exhibition commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Dutch artist’s visit to the Alhambra, to him “the richest source of inspiration” that he had ever tapped. “This morning I was in the Alhambra. I fully enjoyed this sublime and aristocratic work of art. This evening I returned again and started copying the maiolic ornamentations”.
75 years ago, Maurits Cornelis Escher wrote this note in his travel diary after his second and final visit to the Alhambra in 1936; his first had been in 1922. So captivated was he by the Nasrid fortress and palace, that it marked a before and after in his artistic trajectory, now characterised by his fascination with mathematics, architecture and perspective. M.C. Escher, Infinite Universes, sees his return to Granada, in an exhibition which, in true Escherian style, showcases his work at two spaces simultaneously: the Alhambra and Granada Science Park.
The exhibition, an original idea commissioned by Borja Ferrater, Juan Domingo Santos and Carlos Ferrater, gives the visitor a vision of the artist’s internal world and his most important works, tracing a route through his imaginary worlds, from the faithful reproduction of natural elements to the manipulation of reality by means of optical illusions and impossible figures. The exhibition is composed of a total of 135 original works from the M.C. Escher Foundation, including popular pieces such as Print Gallery, Drawing Hands, Sky and Water, Moebius Strip and Metamorphosis II.
In true vanguard style, M.C. Escher. Infinite universes invades and takes over the Alhambra and the Science Park, adding to Escher’s works other artistic elements, such as a mobile installation which recreates Sky and Water, Magical boxes that transpose the visitor into the artist’s infinite worlds by means of kaleidoscopic optical illusions that multiply images endlessly, the Windows of the Alhambra, connecting opposing worlds, and an audiovisual montage in the Chapel of the Palace of Carlos V.