A man folded over the effort tries to raise stones towards the sky to erect a column. The second column faces him, finished, decorated, sprung forth in front of an Orient sky with perfect dyes. The heavy bronze doors open and let appear the Song of Songs in the purity of its text, in the shining and intimate dialogues between the lover and the fiancée, between God and the People of Israel, between ground Jerusalem and heavenly Jerusalem.
The words burst on the beauty, the carnal love, the mouth of the mistress, the fragrant oil spread over her body and her appeal to her lover to join.
Engraved in the bronze, the three millennia text of King Solomon always remains new in its extreme ecstasy, sung by two people with perfect forms.
Woman to the right, man to the left, in the full strength of their desire.
By approaching, we notice that these powerful characters, who seem to overflow their bronze frame, are completely sculptured in hollow.
The full breast of the woman is in hollow; other hollows form the muscle structure of the man, their heads, their mouths, their eyes. The miracle of the sculpture, the miracle of the optical illusion, which allows us to see volumes where the sculptor plays with the light to offer an ultimate dream.
All this is only underlining the immateriality and the timelessness of the Hymn. This work is the crowning of twelve years of creative artwork, always renewed, always in progress, from Michael LEVY works….
Léon ABRAMOWICZ
L’Arche
Déborah LEVY 