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The installation he presents for his <em>Carte Blanche <\/em>at the Guimet Museum, Paris, brings together a series of slender sculptures in lacquered wood of mathematical objects, in the tradition of the celebrated photographs that Man Ray took of them. These abstract forms, hanging from the ceiling like mobiles or laid on the floor like devotional objects, take shape through a virtuosity and craftsmanship seldom found in contemporary art. The book is lavishly illustrated by the Japanese photographer Tadayuki Minamoto, who has been able to capture the magnificence of the mathematical abstraction of the works of Kikuchi; by photographs and paintings by Man Ray; and with fascinating mathematical objects from the Institut Henri Poincar&eacute;, Paris, photographed by the French photographer Bertrand Michau. <\/p>\n<p>It is essential reading for lovers of surrealism and of the early years of 20th-century abstraction as well as for all who are intrigued by the close relationship between art and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Text in English and French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toshimasa Kikuchi&rsquo;s slender sculptures in lacquered wood of mathematical objects are inspired by mathematical models held at the Institut Henri Poincar&eacute;, Paris. 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