Spatial Illusion

Mark Grotjahn

“Grotjahn's abstractions are, in relation to traditional pictorial modes, a matter of having your cake and eating it too, of experiencing vertiginous spatial illusions only to be brought back to the level ground of modernist flatness-only then to have the picture plane once again yield to the probing eye...” (R. Storr, "La Push-Pull/Po-Mo-Stop-Go,"

M. C. Escher

Three Worlds (Bool 405)

Fred Sandback

dimensions vary with each installation

M. C. Escher

Puddle (Bool 378)

Anish Kapoor

‘It is a space that recedes deep into the picture plane. This is the traditional space of the sublime. There is another space which one might call ‘object space’, which is in front of the picture plane. I have worked with concave mirror space for twenty years now because concave mirror space is in front of the picture plane and it is a new kind of space and a new sublime. A modern sublime, a ‘now’ sublime, a ‘here’ sublime.’

Thomas Demand

Balkone (Balconies)