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Yadegar Asisi – Architect of illusions

Even as a student, Asisi was fascinated by the possibilities of giving three dimensions to two-dimensional images.  What is the relationship between architecture and decorative painting? How are spatial impressions, optical illusions and illusions created with the help of geometry or views portrayed from below?   The exactitude of perspective interests him just as much as the various forms of illusionist painting or the amazing method of anamorphosis (perspective distortion).

He studied the great masters of perspective in detail – Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea Mantegna. Even when he became a freelance architect in the 1980s, Yadegar Asisi worked on stage sets and architectural simulations, drawing them on paper in spite of computer-assisted calculations. Many public and private clients turned to him as the specialist for “three-dimensionality”.  Asisi received countless awards for his concise and artistic designs.

In 2003, the architect Daniel Libeskind won the competition for the design of the reconstruction of the area surrounding the World Trade Center in New York with a panorama by Asisi. Much acclaim followed the panoramic exhibition »Berlin 2005 – CityVision« in the year 1995, which was created in cooperation with »Stern« magazine. Since 2003, Asisi has devoted most of his artistic activity to his panorama houses in Leipzig and Dresden.