Walt van Ballegooijen & Hans Kuiper
Walt van Ballegooijen and Hans Kuiper created together this piece of
art about the Beatles.
Both are artists with an engineering background.
They were inspired by their own “Gödel Escher Bach object" with three
hidden faces. Could they increase the number of faces? Yes they
did.
Walt and Hans make their art to surprise the spectator.
The Famous Faces of John, Paul, George and Ringo, the Fabulous
Four, are hidden in this object. Walt and Hans developed a Minimal
Art object with 577 cells of truncated octahedrons, and punched
out 4x469 holes, to create the images of the four faces in Optical
Minimal Art.
The photo above is taken from the object placed on a mirror.
There are several ways to display the Beatles object. One can view
the black object against a white background from 4 different
viewing points. Another way is to look at its shadow in four
different orientations of the object. But the most spectacular way
is to see the black object in one view together with its 3
reflections with the help of a configuration of 2 mirrors and a
white lighted background.