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Robert Gero’s exhibit called “Infinity Structures: Paradoxical Spaces,” incorporates math, philosophy, and art.  The exhibit was constructed with Styrofoam, and the structure was configured throughout the entire room with different pieces coming out of the ground and others going into the ceiling.  The purpose of this project was to build a seemingly impossible structure, where its internal dimensions exceeded its external dimensions.  The interior of the structure, which was made up of the Styrofoam beams, expanded infinitely within the constraints of the physical walls.

Robert Gero’s work is an empirical construction, in that it is a project that must be experienced rather than thought about logistically, in order to grasp the infinite structure.  Mathematically, Gero’s structure represents the concept of achieving infinity and philosophically, it represents the paradox of achieving the infinite structure.

His work is extremely creative and once again, exemplifies how art has no bounds when creativity is involved.  I find his exhibit unique because it not only demonstrates how art and mathematics are intertwined, but it also suggests the philosophical reasoning behind the concept.  The simplicity of the presentation itself, and the structure occupying the entire room, left space for the audience to use their own imagination in attempting to grasp the concept of infinity.