Bridges 2026 Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Craft, and Design
Francesco De Comité
Artists
Francesco De Comité
Retired Associate Professor of Computer Science
(was) University of Lille (France)
Mouscron, Belgium
Statement
Retired Computer Scientist, University of Lille (France). I try to extract tangible objects based on mathematical principles. Mathematics are either the center of the artworks (like my cyclids, for example), or only a constraint that guide my production, in the same spirit as Oulipo guided French writers in their artworks (Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec ..)
Artworks
Trompe l'oeil -- Détrompe l'oeil
40.0 x 60.0 x 0.5 cm
Acrylics on canvas, Fimo clay, wood
2026
A Trompe-l'oeil in the shape of a Cabinet of Curiosities. Each cell is a square with integer side (3,5,6,11,17,19,22,23,24,25), and all together the ten cells tile a 47x65 units rectangle.
Working against the flow, I decided to transform this 2D trompe l'oeil into a real tridimensionnal object, illustrating yet another mathematical concept : involution.