OPENING RECEPTION: JANUARY 22ND, 2026 | 6 - 8 PM

 

Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce Between Order and Chaos: André Kertész and M. C. Escher, an exhibition that brings together two extraordinarily influential artists who each uniquely and independently redefined how visual reality is perceived. Though one worked with the camera and the other with the tools of printmaking, both artists pursued parallel investigations into perception, geometry, and illusion, treating order and chaos not as abstract opposites but as interdependent conditions through which reality is structured and transformed. The exhibition will feature a focused selection of original prints by M. C. Escher alongside vintage photographs by André Kertész spanning his eight-decade career, many of which have never before been exhibited.

 

Born within four years of one another, André Kertész (Budapest, 1894–New York, 1985) and M. C. Escher (Leeuwarden, 1898–Laren, 1972) each pursued independent paths apart from the dominant artistic movements of their time. Driven by deeply personal ways of seeing that resisted categorization, they approached reality as something open to reorganization and reinterpretation. Both were shaped by displacement and solitude; Kertész moved from Hungary to Paris and later to New York, while Escher traveled extensively through Italy and Spain before returning to a changed Netherlands. From these experiences emerged an outsider’s point of view, enabling each to recognize the extraordinary where others might have seen the ordinary and contributing to a detached yet deeply perceptive engagement with the world.