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from Mathematics to Shakespeare
| 7 February – 10 May 2015 The Phillips Collection | Washington, DC, USA |
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| Man Ray (1890–1976) considered Shakespearean Equations to represent the pinnacle of his creative vision. Created while he was in Hollywood in the late 1940s, this series of paintings was inspired by photographs of mathematical models that he took in Paris in the 1930s. | ||||
| Man Ray – Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare will feature an ensemble of 100 pieces. It will present for the first time the original mathematical models alongside Man Ray’s inventive photographs of the objects and the surrealist-inflected Shakespearean Equations. | ||||
| Exploring the intersections between art and science, the exhibition will provide a rare opportunity to connect the artist’s approach to geometric forms with his other works relating inanimate objects with the human body. | ||||
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Man Ray, Shakespearean Equation, Julius Caesar (1948). The Rosalind & Melvin Jacobs Collection, New York. © Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2015 |