© Adagp, Paris
"The idea is this: you can go from very commonly accepted things to nonsense without a breakdown in reason. For example, I can go smoothly from 1/2 equals 3/6 to something like olive and camembert equal the UN flag and a cornucopia, all without threatening intelligibility."
The Belgian artist Eric Duyckaerts is an artist-orator known for his improvised “lecture-performances” and his videos where he embarks upon an odyssey through the world of knowledge, an unexpected marriage of art and science always characterised by detached humour. From the mid-1980s, the artist began an unusual project of facetiously questioning the plastic arts and the popularization of exogenous knowledge, sciences, rights, physics, logic, mathematics...