Nadir and Zenith enter a new world where nothing is what it seems. High and low, inside and outside, big and small… Can they believe their eyes? Who is looking at whom? And who is the creator of this adventure-filled universe? Just when they think they have found the way out, they see the room where they came from…
Graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972) became world famous for his weird and wonderful pictures. He occupied a special place somewhere between art and science. Although he claimed not to know anything about mathematics, he used mathematical ideas to create his own world. He took this to the extreme with the lithograph Print Gallery. It’s so cleverly composed that you don’t know if you’re looking at it or inside it… Wouter van Reek has cleverly incorporated this concept in this intriguing picture book.
