Echoing Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man this figure replaces the naked body with a pressurized suit technology standing in for flesh, survival standing in for harmony. Where da Vinci mapped ideal proportions to prove humanity’s symmetry with the cosmos, the Vitruvian Astronaut asks what remains of that ideal once Earth is no longer the reference point. #sculpture #contemparyart #artbasel | Joseph Klibansky