La Quadrature du cercle

La Quadrature du cercle (Squaring the Circle), 2012.

Plexiglas box, transparent coloured glass beads, nylon threads.
50 × 50 × 12 cm (19.7 × 19.7 × 4.7 in).

Solo Exhibition Sur le fil,
Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, 2012.

Private collection, Belgium.

From the bottom to the top of the box, the spirals of the beads progressively turn into perfect diamond-shape lozenges in the space.

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Squaring the Circle
in its Plexiglas box.

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Detail of the coloured beads.

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Detail from the side of the box.