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perception of the human gaze and the depiction of the visual field, a clear allusion to the artificial perspective of historical references.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