Masters of Deception:
Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion
Published by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. (New York), Fall 2004

 

Matheau Haemakers (1954 - )

See Masters of Deception for complete biographical details and
descriptive examples of Haemakers’ work.
 

Movies Related to this Artist
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•  Interview
Play the movie to see an interview with Belgian artist Matheau Haemakers

•  Impossible Possibility (Painted wood and polyester, 1984) 
This sculpture is based on the impossible triangle by Roger Penrose. From this angle, its true shape is revealed. Play the movie to see Haemakers’s large impossible triangle sculpture revealed.

•  Cube
Hamaekers holds an impossible cube, which is based on the figure in M. C. Escher’s print “Belvedere,” in 1985.  Play the movie to see Haemakers’s cube transform through motion.

•  Geometrical Love (Painted wood and polyester, 1989 -90 x 80 x 28 cm)
Play the movie to see Haemakers’s “Geometrical Love” transform through motion.

•  Unity
Play the movie to see the large Impossible Triangle outside Haemakers home in Beligium.

•  Twist Sculpture
Play the movie to see another twisted sculpture by Matheau Haemakers.



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