Shift Your Perspective

Step inside the mind-bending world of artist M.C. Escher at Somerset House this summer! Famously the creator of many seemingly 'impossible' works, Escher's paintings quite literally challenge our perceptions, with optical illusions, surreal mathematical constructions and endless tessellations. More than 150 of his original works are collected in this one exhibition, showing the full scale of the artist's incredible creative brain. 

Dutch artist M.C. Escher's works often make us squint in disbelief, creating paradoxes which appear to be impossible; famous works include Relativity, featuring a room full of staircases at all angles in which gravity appears not to apply, Ascending and Descending in which a piece of impossible architecture has an endless staircase that never gets higher or lower, and Waterfall, an optical illusion in which a waterfall seems to feed itself. A true genius, come and see why this exhibition has already captivated millions around the globe.