Astrónomo XXV
Yishai Jusidman
Astronomer XXV
Jusidman’s work has consistently reaffirmed the possibilities and importance of painting amid the prevailing skepticism of the contemporary art world. His work questions the limits of the pictorial medium and revises the two-dimensionality of the discipline and its spatial explorations, resisting the modernist zeal to treat it as a mere platform.
The series Astrónomo, which borrows its title from the eponymous painting by Johannes Vermeer of 1668, is one of his first works to defy the convention of the pictorial “plane.”
Jusidman paints naturalist landscapes on wooden spheres, alluding to the mapamundi, while also inverting the logic of deformation in representation in flat media. He thus evokes the visual perception of the human gaze and the depiction of the visual field, a clear allusion to the artificial perspective of historical references.
YISHAI JUSIDMAN (1963)
Astrónomo XXV, 1990
Astronomer XXV
From the series Astrónomo
Encaustic on wood
Acquisition, 2005
