This exhibition includes a selection of sculptures and related drawings from the past 30 years of John Pickering’s career. The title of the exhibition, MP·MO=MR², derives from what is known to mathematicians as ‘the inversion principle’. This equation, when applied to geometric figures (cylinders, spheres, cones) can generate an infinite number of points, which Pickering uses to map out three dimensional sculptures; turning the numerical data of an equation into a finely formed sculpture. Due to the mathematical formula that underpins the creation of the models, they are rational, engineered and build-able, yet have a strange, magical and fantastic quality.

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John Pickering

Inverting a cylinder where the centre of the inversion does not lie on the cylinder, 2002

Courtesy of the artist