“3-15” (beer bottle caps)

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Oil, canvas

19.7" x 19.7" (50 x 50 cm)

Kyiv, 2013 

Bottle caps of several beer brands are among the things their numerical value can be easily set by putting the respective number on them. These caps can be arranged in the shape of 3x3 matrix the way they would form a magic square, its horizantal, vertical and diagonal sums equal to 15.

One of the first known examples of such squares was carved in ancient China on the surface of tortoise shell. Today, because of undoubtedly progressing civilization, mass production and mass consumption, tha task of making magic squares became much easier.