MC Escher gets another dimension – and a show that plunges you into his obsessions

An MC Escher exhibition could have been an easy win – but with collaboration from design studio Nendo, the NGV have created something new

MC Escher was apparently a bad student. He failed the second grade. He flunked multiple subjects while studying architecture. It is funny, then, that his mind-bending works – the impossible buildings; the complex transitioning shapes – adorn the walls of classrooms the world over.

My school was no different. In geography you could either pay attention, or you could look at Escher looking at himself reflected in an orb. In maths I spent more time than I should have staring at the print of birds flying from one side to another, black and white fading seamlessly, fields turning to sky.

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