Ivan Moscovich at h club LDN
Ivan Moscovich is a 93 year old mathematician and inventor who still publishes a book annually in his retirement.
His artworks are called Harmonograms; they are original ink drawings on photographic paper. Each work requires even and continuous movement; if the ink is stationary or inconsistent in its flow the image was imperfect and subsequently destroyed.
Ivan’s Harmonograms were first exhibited in a milestone exhibition at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 1968, titled Cybernetic Serendipity. Additionally, they were exhibited at the International Design Centre, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; Didacta Exhibition, Basel; Science Museum Tel Aviv.
The suite of works in h club LA were personally selected by the artist, for that space. The works are made between 1968 and 1973, before Ivan returned to principally focus on educational mathematics.
Throughout his career, Ivan’s endeavours are motivated by the visual communication of mathematics.
Ivan is survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and of the death marches before liberation.
In his extraordinary life he went on to become the founding director of the Museum of Science and Technology, Tel Aviv and award-winning inventor of educational games, with more than 100 to his credit in all.
He is also the author of more than 50 books of games and puzzles and is still writing in his ‘retirement – most recently published are The Puzzle Universe and his best-selling title The Big Book of Brain Games, which remains a best seller for its category on Amazon. He is currently working on a book on creativity, a subject he considers the most important force in his life.
His artworks are called Harmonograms; they are original ink drawings on photographic paper. Each work requires even and continuous movement; if the ink is stationary or inconsistent in its flow the image was imperfect and subsequently destroyed.
Ivan’s Harmonograms were first exhibited in a milestone exhibition at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 1968, titled Cybernetic Serendipity. Additionally, they were exhibited at the International Design Centre, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; Didacta Exhibition, Basel; Science Museum Tel Aviv.
The suite of works in h club LA were personally selected by the artist, for that space. The works are made between 1968 and 1973, before Ivan returned to principally focus on educational mathematics.
Throughout his career, Ivan’s endeavours are motivated by the visual communication of mathematics.
Ivan is survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and of the death marches before liberation.
In his extraordinary life he went on to become the founding director of the Museum of Science and Technology, Tel Aviv and award-winning inventor of educational games, with more than 100 to his credit in all.
He is also the author of more than 50 books of games and puzzles and is still writing in his ‘retirement – most recently published are The Puzzle Universe and his best-selling title The Big Book of Brain Games, which remains a best seller for its category on Amazon. He is currently working on a book on creativity, a subject he considers the most important force in his life.