IBIOCAT 2.0: IBIOCAT Science&Art - "Tessellation World" of Makoto Nakamura

Among the most popular ideas of our time are multimedia presentation and interdisciplinarity, including the relationships between art and science. Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972), for a great part of his artistic life, was an "attractor" who inspired connections among mathematicians, physicists, crystallographers and experts in visual perception. The special way of thinking and the rich graphic work of M.C. Escher have had continuous influence in the science world and in the art world too. His ideas have been used in the field of psychology, philosophy, logic, crystallography and topology, etc. Graphic artists, printmakers and painters still study his special perspective designs and his unique visual concepts. The art of M.C. Escher is based on mathematical principles like tessellations, spherical geometry, the Möbius strip, unusual perspectives, visual paradoxes, different kinds of symmetries and impossible objects. There are followers of his searching for the figural representation of these abstract ideas, and also there are important artists who started to deal with mathematic related art alone apart from his influence but they reached similar conclusion as for example Oscar Reutersvard (1915 – 2002) who is well known as the "father of impossible figures."

Japanese artist Makoto Nakamura has taken tessellation a step beyond the plane with his awesome animations.

"I think that a tessellation is a new way to express ideograms rather than merely a way to express optical illusions. The tessellation involves various conflicting concepts. I have created several works that comprehend the world using tessellations, expressing scenes of a dense ecosystem encompassing the forests and the sea". (Makoto Nakamura)

See his tessellated birds fly, his tessellated fish swim, and his tessellated dancers dance. Next, visit Nakamura's Jigsaw Puzzles reassemble tessellated cats, pigeons, gorillas and more.

Enjoy Makoto Nakamura website http://www.k4.dion.ne.jp/~mnaka/home.index.html