M.C. Escher: Infinite Variations

This mesmerizing exhibition brings the work of world-renowned artist, M.C. Escher, to Reading this fall. M.C. Escher: Infinite Variations spans the Dutch artist’s entire career with more than 150 works from a private collection. Although Escher was one of the modern period’s most well-known graphic artists, he once puzzled an interviewer by referring to himself as a mathematician rather than an artist.

Visitors will see woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and even a lithography stone. Among the art exhibited are some of his most iconic works, including Day and Night, in which two flocks of birds in flight blend into Holland’s natural landscape, and Ascending and Descending, a 1960 print of an impossible building with a staircase that mirrors a möbius strip.