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Mathematics as the raw material for art

By Kat Austen

9 November 2011

In a new Paris exhibition, prizewinning mathematicians team up with artists to inspire works that bring intangible concepts to life

Mathematics – A Beautiful Elsewhere, Fondation Cartier, Paris, until 18 March

IF YOU think of cosmology, you picture colourful nebulae; with neurology, intricate brain scans. But what does mathematics look like? That’s what a team of world-class artists and mathematicians set out to discover.

The product of the collaboration is the exhibition Mathematics – A Beautiful Elsewhere, at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, France. Curator Thomas Delamarre hopes it will do nothing less than provide an “answer to the abstraction of mathematics”.…

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