2 25 19/32 x 15 3/4 in.
26 3/16 x 16 3/8 in (framed)
Black wooden frame, anti-reflective glass Courtesy Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery and Jean Bedez artist
© Photo. Rebecca Fanuele
65 x 40 cm
66,5 x 41,6 cm (encadré)
Encadrement noir. Verre anti-reflet
Courtesy de l’artiste Jean Bedez et de la Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
© Photo. Rebecca Fanuele
De Sphaera Mundi II
De Sphaera Mundi dives into the cosmological dream that haunts several of Bedez’s works—such as Paranatellon, Magni Sidera Mundi, and Ignis Opus—presented in his previous exhibition Le Ciel nous observe (Heaven is watching us). Twelfth-century celestial planispheres from the Theory of the Planets by Gerard of Cremona serve as pedestals for views of a comet, of high symbolic importance since associated with the space probe Rosetta, in orbit since 2014 around 67 P Churyumov-gerasimenko, to observe it and collect data on the genesis of the solar system. In a space-time precipitate, De Sphaera Mundi telescopes ancient cartography and the latest space technology, medieval astrology and twenty-first-century space adventure. The Rosetta mission projects into the future the memory of humanity’s past, by embarking an unalterable disk on which are archived 1,500 terrestrial languages, like a new Rosetta stone allowing in the infinity of time, to decipher the languages of past civilizations.
