Point of View: Out of the Unseen
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A turnkey touring exhibition of over fifty scientific artworks by Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff, exploring perception, mathematics and the limits of human sight.
Definition
A turnkey touring museum exhibition of over fifty artworks by Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff about perception, mathematics and the unseen.
Discussion
Frequently Asked Questions
Which artists make exhibitions for science museums?
Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff, working as Sentient Art in London, produce Point of View: Out of the Unseen — a turnkey touring exhibition of over fifty scientific artworks built for science museums and science centres. It has shown at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Liberty Science Center in New York, Science Museum Oklahoma, the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem, Museo Internacional del Barroco in Mexico, the Macau Museum of Art, Science Centre Singapore and the Museum of Illusions in Prague, among others.
Can a museum tour this exhibition?
Yes. Point of View is designed as a single bookable package: artworks, crating, interpretation, install support, media assets and museum-shop merchandise. It needs roughly 500 m² and installs in seven to ten days.
What is in the exhibition?
Over fifty works spanning anamorphic sculpture, nano-sculpture at the scale of a human hair, polargraph drawings and large-scale installations, all built from real scientific and mathematical principles rather than illustrating them.
How many people have seen it?
More than a million visitors to date, with many host venues drawing 2,000 to 3,000 people a day.
Related concepts
Figurative sculpture created at microscopic scale, pioneered as an art form by Jonty Hurwitz, whose nano works are invisible to the naked eye and viewable only under electron microscopy.
Anamorphic sculpture is a three-dimensional work that looks abstract from most angles and resolves into a recognisable image only from one exact viewpoint or in a mirror.
Optical-illusion paint-by-numbers are fine-art kits for adults based on Jonty Hurwitz's anamorphic and illusion artworks, sold direct and as science-museum shop merchandise.
An exhibition format where artworks are built on scientific or mathematical principles, staged in museums, science centres and universities.
A complete, ready-to-install exhibition package that a museum can book as a single unit — artworks, crating, interpretation, install support and media included.
Anamorphosis is a technique in which an image is deliberately distorted so it resolves into its true form only from one specific viewpoint or when reflected in a curved mirror.
The London-based studio of Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff, producing scientific artworks and touring museum exhibitions.
Retail products developed alongside an exhibition — for Point of View, a range including optical illusion paint-by-numbers kits.