Impossible Staircases And Self-Spawning Hands: Huge M.C. Escher Exhibition Coming To Somerset House

Will Noble

Impossible Staircases And Self-Spawning Hands: Huge M.C. Escher Exhibition Coming To Somerset House

150 of M.C. Escher's works land in London this summer. Image: M.C. Escher: The Exhibition

Prepare to squint: 150 mind-bending works by M.C. Escher come to Somerset House this summer.

Few people are unaware of the late Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher — or at least his tessellating, metamorphosing, paradoxical — and often downright head-scratching — artworks, including Drawing Hands, and the 'impossible staircases' as depicted in Ascending and Descending, and Relativity.