David Lynch adds art to maths

"Mathematics – A Beautiful Elsewhere was dreamt up by Fondation Cartier’s pioneering director, Hervé Chandès. It is almost certainly Paris’s first ever exhibition to explore the aesthetic potential of what he calls the 'abstract art par excellence' and what the rest of us know simply as maths. 'The art world is all ego, ego, ego,' says Chandès. 'With mathematicians it’s not like that.'
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Within months, he had furnished Chandès with a dossier containing what he and his colleagues considered some of the most artistically rich ideas in contemporary mathematics. All that was then needed was an artist with the imaginative dexterity to transform the ideas in that dossier into an engaging series of interactive exhibits. Chandès recruited his old friend, film-maker, artist and former Fondation Cartier exhibitor David Lynch."  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  The Telegraph
On:  10/29/11
Website:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk

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