El Cántico de bronce

 

Un hombre cedido bajo el esfuerzo trata de levantar hacia el cielo de las piedras para formar una columna; la segunda columna le hace frente, terminada, adornada, punzada delante de un cielo de oriente de los colores de sueño. Las puertas pesadas de bronce se abren y dejan aparecer el Canto de los cantos en la pureza de su texto, en los diálogos radiantes y íntimos entre el amante y la novia, entre Dios y Pueblo de Israel, entre Jerusalén terrestre y Jerusalén celeste.

Las palabras estallan sobre la belleza, el amor carnal, la boca de la amante, lo aceita perfumado que le cubre su cuerpo y su llamada al amante para reunirle. Grabado en el bronce, el texto tres veces milenario de rey SalomĂłn queda siempre nuevo en su extremo exaltaciĂłn. Ésta es cantada por dos personajes a las formas perfectas. A la derecha la mujer, a la izquierda el hombre, en fuerza plena de su deseo. Acercándose, comprobamos que estos personajes poderosos, que parecen debordarse de su marco de bronce, son totalmente esculpidos en hueco. Es un hueco que forma el pecho lleno de la mujer; un hueco que forma la musculatura del hombre, sus cabezas, sus bocas, sus ojos. Milagro de la escultura, milagro de la ilusiĂłn Ăłptica, que permite ver volĂşmenes allĂ­ dĂłnde el escultor juega con la luz para ofrecernos el sueño extremo. Todo esto sĂłlo subraya la inmaterialidad y la intemporalidad del Cántico. Esta obra está como el coronamiento de doce años de trabajo inventivo, siempre renovado, siempre en progreso, de Michel LEVY….

LeĂłn ABRAMOWICZ

L’ Arche

bemont all

L’Ĺ“uvre et la LĂ©gende

…Après des Ă©tudes de mĂ©decine, Michel LEVY qui connaĂ®t bien l’anatomie, dĂ©cide de se consacrer Ă  la sculpture pour mettre Ă  nu, en mĂŞme temps que le corps, l’âme humaine. Il construit tout un monde onirique, oĂą se cĂ´toient des femmes au corps de dĂ©esse et des nains handicapĂ©s. Mais par-delĂ  la simple dĂ©chirure entre la beautĂ© et la laideur, le bien et le mal, toute une sĂ©rie de symboles religieux ou mythiques viennent se nouer, donnant Ă  son Ĺ“uvre une profondeur et une richesse inĂ©galables. L’Ĺ“uvre de Michel LEVY nous invite Ă  la dĂ©couverte d’un monde sacrĂ© qui s’inspire, Ă  travers sa sĂ©rie de « vanitĂ©s », des prĂ©ceptes Ă©noncĂ©s par l’EcclĂ©siaste. « VanitĂ© des vanitĂ©s, dit l’EcclĂ©siaste, vanitĂ© des vanitĂ©s, et tout est vanitĂ©. Que retire de plus l’homme de tout le travail dans lequel il se consume sous le soleil ? Une gĂ©nĂ©ration passe, une gĂ©nĂ©ration vient mais la Terre reste toujours la mĂŞme ». Peu importent la richesse et le pouvoir, la beautĂ© narcissique qu’une femme porte Ă  son corps. Une fois que la mort advient, que reste-t-il de tous ces ĂŞtres ? Que reste-t-il Ă  Job quand tout son monde s’Ă©croule autour de lui ? Que reste-t-il Ă  l’Homme quand celui-ci n’a plus pour tout ami que cette terre qui le ramène Ă  sa douloureuse et pĂ©rissable condition ? Seule l’idĂ©e de l’Ĺ“uvre Ă  accomplir domine la vie de l’artiste. Car lorsque l’homme n’est plus, seule l’Ĺ“uvre d’art subsiste comme le plus beau tĂ©moignage d’une vie vĂ©cue. « Moi ! Moi ! qui me suis dit mage ou Ange, dispensĂ© de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol, avec un devoir Ă  chercher, et la rĂ©alitĂ© rugueuse Ă  Ă©treindre ! » s’exclamait Rimbaud. C’est prĂ©cisĂ©ment cette rĂ©alitĂ© qu’il incombe Ă  l’artiste de saisir et de mĂ©tamorphoser. Tout le travail de LEVY repose sur une magie sacrĂ©e, les diffĂ©rents stades de la naissance d’une sculpture Ă©voquent de façon allĂ©gorique la crĂ©ation du monde. La terre, l’eau, le feu et l’air sont les quatre Ă©lĂ©ments essentiels au travail du sculpteur, par lesquels il parvient Ă  donner vie Ă  ces ĂŞtres enlisĂ©s dans le socle de leur vanitĂ© de la beautĂ©. Boue, lichen, racines vĂ©gĂ©tales qui viennent s’enrouler sur une colonne et se confondre avec la chevelure d’une dĂ©esse au corps Ă©blouissant. Nains monstrueux perchĂ©s sur des Ă©chasses tentant vainement de rejoindre un monde de lumière dont ils ont Ă©tĂ© bannis. L’Ĺ“uvre de LEVY oscille entre la matière sordide et la beautĂ© intelligible, sachant que la laideur ultime peut trouver grâce aux yeux de son crĂ©ateur et que la femme perverse peut elle-aussi descendre de son piĂ©destal. Rien n’est jamais acquis Ă  l’homme, tout en perpĂ©tuel devenir. Les sculptures de Michel LEVY nous racontent l’histoire d’une quĂŞte. Si l’on a souvent parlĂ© de dualitĂ© Ă  propos de son Ĺ“uvre, c’est sans doute parce que Michel LEVY est parti Ă  la recherche de l’unitĂ© originelle, tentant prĂ©cisĂ©ment de concilier les diffĂ©rents aspects de la nature humaine. Chère et tendre dualitĂ© de l’ĂŞtre humain, dĂ©chirure singulière qui pousse l’ĂŞtre vers ses origines primitives ! L’Ange de LEVY est tombĂ© sur le sol, meurtri par les Ă©vanescences de la pollution dont un nain tente de se protĂ©ger avec un masque Ă  gaz. Il est dĂ©chu. C’est pourtant ici-bas que LEVY crĂ©e sa merveilleuse MaternitĂ©. Ă” sublime et fragile humanitĂ© !… Anne-Julie BEMONT Univers des Arts

 

El Cántico de bronce

 

Un hombre cedido bajo el esfuerzo trata de levantar hacia el cielo de las piedras para formar una columna; la segunda columna le hace frente, terminada, adornada, punzada delante de un cielo de oriente de los colores de sueño. Las puertas pesadas de bronce se abren y dejan aparecer el Canto de los cantos en la pureza de su texto, en los diálogos radiantes e íntimos entre el amante y la novia, entre Dios y Pueblo de Israel, entre Jerusalén terrestre y Jerusalén celeste.

Las palabras estallan sobre la belleza, el amor carnal, la boca de la amante, lo aceita perfumado que le cubre su cuerpo y su llamada al amante para reunirle. Grabado en el bronce, el texto tres veces milenario de rey SalomĂłn queda siempre nuevo en su extremo exaltaciĂłn. Ésta es cantada por dos personajes a las formas perfectas. A la derecha la mujer, a la izquierda el hombre, en fuerza plena de su deseo. Acercándose, comprobamos que estos personajes poderosos, que parecen desbordarse de su marco de bronce, son totalmente esculpidos en hueco. Es un hueco que forma el pecho lleno de la mujer; un hueco que forma la musculatura del hombre, sus cabezas, sus bocas, sus ojos. Milagro de la escultura, milagro de la ilusiĂłn Ăłptica, que permite ver volĂşmenes allĂ­ dĂłnde el escultor juega con la luz para ofrecernos el sueño extremo. Todo esto sĂłlo subraya la inmaterialidad y la intemporalidad del Cántico. Esta obra está como el coronamiento de doce años de trabajo inventivo, siempre renovado, siempre en progreso, de Michel LEVY….

LeĂłn ABRAMOWICZ

L’ Arche (diario francĂ©s)

Octubre de 1992

 

QuerrĂ­a recordar aquí  « El Pueblo »  y « La Alianza » que ya se habĂ­an llevado mi entusiasmo. El escultor exprime tambiĂ©n su tema preferido de la dualidad: el cielo y la tierra, el agua y el fuego, la vida y la muerte, particularmente en la profecĂ­a de Ezequiel…

Otro tema que Michel LEVY adora: caras de enanos que nos simbolizan, nosotros los hombres. Encaramados sobre zancos o que escalan un compás de arquitecto, se lanzan al cielo. ¿No la ambición de los constructores quiénes lanzan hacia el firmamento sus rascacielos, como antaño a Babel para reunir A Dios?

Y cuando el artista o el arquitecto se toman por Dios, un pequeño segundo de reflexión sobre la brevedad de su paso en la eternidad, sobre su pequeña talla con relación a la inmensidad de las galaxias, permite ver que el hombre verdaderamente es un enano en el universo. Hay también allí el candelabro a siete ramas, adornado de una gran estrella de David, atada por cuerdas e hilos de bronce.

El alumbrado evoca una historia dolorosa, la Historia de nuestro Pueblo, atado a sus raĂ­ces que estos dos sĂ­mbolos encarnan desde los tiempos remotos. Por fin, la serenidad nos vuelve, con las formas maravillosas y femeninas que simbolizan las temporadas, los paĂ­ses, Europa.

¿Cómo olvidaré la emoción que había experimentado visitando por la primera vez el taller  de Michel LEVY, hace once años? Había predicho entonces que este artista todavía joven y desconocido iba rápidamente a hacerse una celebridad. El Tiempo dio la razón a Michel LEVY, a su obra incomparable, y nos permitió ver aquí sus cumplimientos.

The Bronze’s Canticle

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

“Más allá de la estética solamente, la Verdad “

« Las cosas naturales existen sĂłlo muy poco, la realidad está sĂłlo en sueños. » Baudelaire (Poeta francĂ©s, siglo 19)

 

Michel Lévy trabaja con el principio de la dualidad y, por este artista que afirma una espiritualidad asiática, una cosa es verdad sólo a través de su contrario.

AsĂ­, el Bien y el Mal engendran siempre, el blanco y el negro contienen uno a otro y lo que vemos no es necesariamente la verdad.

Por el escultor optó para más allá de la aparición simple de ser observado y tratando de llevar en sus esculturas el inconsciente a menudo relega al fondo de nosotros mismos.

AsĂ­ en su trabajo sobre los enanos que los querĂ­an representar  anatĂłmica desollada y pelada. Como Ă©l mismo dice: « La piel es el Ăłrgano más grande, una especie de barrera entre el mundo exterior y mundo interior. »

Porque no representan la piel de mis esculturas, simbĂłlicamente, que permite ver el interior del ser, una especie de despojarse del hombre viejo.

Como otra forma de hacer el inventario y tratar de vivir con lo que tenemos y no con lo que nos gustarĂ­a tener.

Algunos de mis personajes son cojos, pero existen, a pesar de los obstáculos.

Esta dualidad que todavĂ­a se encuentran en otras obras de Levy. Y Eva y Circe, ambas polaridades de las mujeres, el lado luminoso y el lado oscuro.

ÂżEl propĂłsito de este artista que sabe las preguntas correctas?Unir el contrario, encontrar la unidad primordial que permite llegar al centro de las cosas, el punto de todos los posibles, de todos los destinos.

Todas estas esculturas, todas las enanas son de piel en los retratos de hecho de los interiores que nos preocupan en lo más alto de nuestra conciencia y nos hacen a un mundo espiritual en busca de un deseo de cambio.

Así por ejemplo, la Bella Durmiente, que descansa sobre una base cuyas bases están habitadas por enanos, evoca los sueños y el inconsciente del ser humano, como si esta mujer durmiendo pacíficamente surgió a partir de esta base, real fundamento de la idea del artista.

En algunas otras esculturas de Michael Levy, las bases de proporcionar las claves para el pĂşblico y permitir, si no para explicar, en lugar de sugerir el proceso creativo.

En cierto modo podemos decir que Michel Levy se une a la gran tradiciĂłn y en particular la artesanĂ­a de Benvenuto Cellini (artista italiano del Renacimiento, 1500-1571), en la que las bases eran de gran importancia.

Esculturas de Levy son como los ídolos, dioses de un mundo violento en el que se olvida la estética para sólo expresar la verdad que no es ni totalmente agraciada ni totalmente fea: es La Verdad.

Se expresa de manera desconcertante, rompiendo las barreras y nos obliga a reconocer la realidad de nuestra personalidad, maltratada por una vida donde los parámetros son por lo menos volátiles.

Michael Levy tiene el poder de contar historias incorporadas en bronce, como otra manera de crear y transmitir parábolas que algunos ven como profética.

AsĂ­ que escucha que le escrutar…

 

Patrice de la Perrière

« Univers des Arts »

 

 

 

The passions of Michael Levy

by Michel Prigent

Editorial published in The Republic (French journal)

March the 27th, 2006

 

The sculptor Michael Levy, the author of Héloïse and Abélard (the monumental statues of the media library at Melun (France)), exposes into the Saint Jean Space of the city (Open Space dedicated to Exhibitions). Inspired by the Middle East, where he lived, by the Bible which is in his culture, and marked by the medicine, which he abandoned for the art, this man delivers us a bubbling spirit and a lesson of humanity.

The last Michael Levy’s exhibition held in the Saint Jean Space in 1993. Since, his sculptures made a world tour, via London, Washington and Italy. Then, during 2004, we spoke a lot about the artist at Melun, during the inauguration of the media library. This was for a very good reason, as two big bronze sculptures welcome the visitors: Héloïse and Abélard.

Michael Levy, as all the famous sculptors, likes wide spaces and impressive volumes. A monumental sculpture does not frighten him. As proof, his workshops are in the cutting of his artworks, so allowing him to be able to express himself through the everyday life in his countryside.

These sculptures, in their context, in the very place of their creation, are even better read. Michael Levy’s workshop is as a theatre within which an opera builds up itself and blooms. The sculptor is the conductor, he works out his own partition, surrounded with his sketches, rough draughts, raw or baked clays. There he is well-advised.  Maybe he remembers from Algiers (North Africa) his own passion going back up to his childhood, always making objects. Moreover this lead him to the sculpture by arriving to Paris!  Then there is his curiosity for the living creatures, the small animals. Lizards, grasshoppers, insects, over which he goes into raptures, in Algeria in his teens.

But this observation is not lost, this lead him to the second passion of his life: the medicine. Moreover, at 26 years old, he told himself that he must succeed in a high school diploma. Then he entered the Faculty of Medicine, following evening classes.  So arrived the synthesis of his two courtships: he became a specialist in joint therapy at the Limeil-Brévannes City Hospital in the geriatrics department. There he realized the suffering of the mankind and there he met with the distress.

 

He discovered as well that patients who began creating found their dignity and their identity.  “They discovered that they knew how to make something again and again. And they even continued to live for the group through their works, while they die”.   The experience is strong. So strong that the choice is made forever. Michael Levy will not be a physician anymore. By the sculpture he will look after someone, but only through the spirit. Then he gave up with his projects of plastic surgery. A real grief indeed for this tender heart!

Sensible that’s for sure. Perhaps even a flayed body in some cases. And so some of his sculptured characters are represented.

« It is to penetrate better their internal world », he asserts, in showing one of his contorted and suffering dwarfs, carrying symbolically all the weight of the poor human condition. The skin is removed from dwarfs, so finally the character comes up into full light.

The veils, he not does not either need to allow to stay dreaming in front of his academies. Perfect nudes with which he took some distance, in order not to fall in an aestheticism which would be only an artist’s weakness.

The new way taken by Michael Levy is far more audacious.  With huge hens pulled by dwarfs, he throws us to our face that we lost the sense of the sacred. We also forgot that these animals, on the basis of the biggest consumption of proteins for mankind, were also living animals. Then, Michael Levy wants to make our eyes opened on to the world which surrounds us. Would not the human become a dwarf, living through the forgetfulness of his own marks?

But there is also hope, and children inspire henceforth the sculptor. In a remarkable and powerful artwork, the children of the Shoah (catastrophe), and his own children too, show him to the everyday life that life is born in the sharing of something out.  Then Michael Levy, who distrusts all the more reason of the aestheticism for the aestheticism, brought up the reflection to the same level as his inspiration, the whole served today by a technique become magnificently evident. You should admire the result!

Open Space Saint Jean March 25th , June 3rd, 2006

 

 

 

 

PRIGENT

The passions of Michael Levy

by Michel Prigent

Editorial published in The Republic (French journal)

March the 27th, 2006

 

The sculptor Michael Levy, the author of Héloïse and Abélard (the monumental statues of the media library at Melun (France)), exposes into the Saint Jean Space of the city (Open Space dedicated to Exhibitions). Inspired by the Middle East, where he lived, by the Bible which is in his culture, and marked by the medicine, which he abandoned for the art, this man delivers us a bubbling spirit and a lesson of humanity.

The last Michael Levy’s exhibition held in the Saint Jean Space in 1993. Since, his sculptures made a world tour, via London, Washington and Italy. Then, during 2004, we spoke a lot about the artist at Melun, during the inauguration of the media library. This was for a very good reason, as two big bronze sculptures welcome the visitors: Héloïse and Abélard.

Michael Levy, as all the famous sculptors, likes wide spaces and impressive volumes. A monumental sculpture does not frighten him. As proof, his workshops are in the cutting of his artworks, so allowing him to be able to express himself through the everyday life in his countryside.

These sculptures, in their context, in the very place of their creation, are even better read. Michael Levy’s workshop is as a theatre within which an opera builds up itself and blooms. The sculptor is the conductor, he works out his own partition, surrounded with his sketches, rough draughts, raw or baked clays. There he is well-advised.  Maybe he remembers from Algiers (North Africa) his own passion going back up to his childhood, always making objects. Moreover this lead him to the sculpture by arriving to Paris!  Then there is his curiosity for the living creatures, the small animals. Lizards, grasshoppers, insects, over which he goes into raptures, in Algeria in his teens.

But this observation is not lost, this lead him to the second passion of his life: the medicine. Moreover, at 26 years old, he told himself that he must succeed in a high school diploma. Then he entered the Faculty of Medicine, following evening classes.  So arrived the synthesis of his two courtships: he became a specialist in joint therapy at the Limeil-Brévannes City Hospital in the geriatrics department. There he realized the suffering of the mankind and there he met with the distress.

 

He discovered as well that patients who began creating found their dignity and their identity.  “They discovered that they knew how to make something again and again. And they even continued to live for the group through their works, while they die”.   The experience is strong. So strong that the choice is made forever. Michael Levy will not be a physician anymore. By the sculpture he will look after someone, but only through the spirit. Then he gave up with his projects of plastic surgery. A real grief indeed for this tender heart!

Sensible that’s for sure. Perhaps even a flayed body in some cases. And so some of his sculptured characters are represented.

« It is to penetrate better their internal world », he asserts, in showing one of his contorted and suffering dwarfs, carrying symbolically all the weight of the poor human condition. The skin is removed from dwarfs, so finally the character comes up into full light.

The veils, he not does not either need to allow to stay dreaming in front of his academies. Perfect nudes with which he took some distance, in order not to fall in an aestheticism which would be only an artist’s weakness.

The new way taken by Michael Levy is far more audacious.  With huge hens pulled by dwarfs, he throws us to our face that we lost the sense of the sacred. We also forgot that these animals, on the basis of the biggest consumption of proteins for mankind, were also living animals. Then, Michael Levy wants to make our eyes opened on to the world which surrounds us. Would not the human become a dwarf, living through the forgetfulness of his own marks?

But there is also hope, and children inspire henceforth the sculptor. In a remarkable and powerful artwork, the children of the Shoah (catastrophe), and his own children too, show him to the everyday life that life is born in the sharing of something out.  Then Michael Levy, who distrusts all the more reason of the aestheticism for the aestheticism, brought up the reflection to the same level as his inspiration, the whole served today by a technique become magnificently evident. You should admire the result!

Open Space Saint Jean March 25th , June 3rd, 2006

 

 

 

PERRIERE

 

 » Beyond the only aestheticism,   the Truth « 

 

“Natural things exist only little indeed, the reality is only in the dreams”

Baudelaire (French novelist and writer, 19th c.)

 

Michael LEVY works according to the principle of the Duality and, for this artist who refers to an Asian spirituality, a thing really exists only by the intervention of its opposite.   So the Good and the Evil engender each other eternally, the black and the white contain each other themselves, and what we see is not necessarily the truth. This is why the sculptor choose to go beyond the simple appearance of the looked object and to try to translate, in his sculptures, the unconscious which we relegate too often in our heart.

 

So in his work on the dwarfs he wanted to represent them without skin, the bark being removed from. As he says by himself:  » the skin is the largest organ, a sort of stopper between the outside world and the internal world. By not representing this skin in my sculptures, symbolically, it allows us to see the inside of the being, a sort of spoliation of the old man. One way as another to make an inventory on the spot and to try to live with what we have and not with what we would like to have. Some of my characters are crippled, but they exist in spite of the obstacles. »

 

This duality, we still find it in other LEVY’s artworks. So are Eve (mother of mankind) and Circe ( in Homer’s Odyssey an enchantress who turned men into swine) , both polarities of the woman, the light side and the shadow side.  What is the purpose of this artist who knows how to ask the good questions? Unite opposite things, find the essential unity which allows us to reach the very middle of things, point of all the possible, all the future.

All these sculptures, all these skinned dwarfs, are in fact internal portraits which concern us excessively of our consciousness and which make us penetrate into a spiritual world in search for a desire of evolution.  So for example Sleeping Beauty, which rests on a base under of which are dwarfs, evokes the dream and the unconsciousness of the human being, as if this sleeping woman peacefully arose from this base, a real foundation of the idea of the artist.

In some other Michael LEVY’s sculptures, bases give keys to the spectators and allow, otherwise to explain, rather to suggest the creative step. In a certain way we can say that Michael LEVY joins the high tradition and in particular Benvenuto Cellini’s artwork (goldsmith and sculptor in Florence, Italy, 1500-1571), in which bases were of a big importance.  The LEVY’s sculptures are as idols, gods of a bubbling world where we would forget the aestheticism to only express the truth which is neither completely beautiful nor completely ugly: it is This Truth. He expresses it in a staggering way, abolishing barriers and forcing us to become aware of the reality of our personality, rocked by a life where the parameters are at least fluctuating.

 

Michael LEVY has the power to tell stories embodied in the bronze, a way as another one to create and to pass on parables which someone consider as prophetic. Then let us listen to him, by looking at him.

 

Patrice de la Perrière

 

Arts News Magazine (in French), n°30, October, 1992

 

Universe of the Arts, (French Journal)

April, 2006

Michael Levy

Reality of the Invisible

by Françoise de Céligny

It is with the merciless lucidity on the appearances that Michael Levy looks at the complexity of the world. Forging his own vision, he transcribes the tears and the human harmonies in a gesture mixed with intransigence and elegance.

He moves forward in his artwork fascinated and doubtful, oscillating ceaselessly between shadow and light, aware of the difficulty to reveal the invisible contained under the yoke of the reality. His bronzes express a magnificent ambiguity built just like the ambivalence of the nature.

Of his first attractions towards medicine, Michael Levy keeps a sense of the observation and an analysis of the bodies which facilitates his methodical exploration of the palpitation of the reality.

His eye is as a scalpel, cutting the suffering features, the desire, the sorrow, the pleasure, and all the range of the human feelings with the precision of a surgeon of the soul. His restless faces testify of the tragedy of the world without losing the track of an indelible hope.

From the workmanship of his artworks perspires an intense sensitive bubbling up between dreams and instinctive impulses, leaving a sacred fire stemming from the magic of the inspiration. Sometimes close to some original magma, sometimes chiselled as precious ornaments, a fascinating profession full of sensibility and aesthetics is glittering from his bronzes.

His characters put in nude, both by the consistency of the matter and by the meaning will without concession, transcribe a determination to work in osmosis with the lively strengths of a genuine creativity. During his artistic progress, Michael Levy built himself an atypical spirituality in agreement with his internal convictions flying above the conflicts of the faiths.

It is with an animistic feeling of the deep roots of existence that he shaped the creatures which populate his thoughts and his artworks. The maimed dwarfs, the fantastic birds, virgins and other creatures which shape his personal mythology, all evoke the multiple metamorphoses of the unconscious capable of dressing the most improbable forms.  Michael Levy’s sculptural odyssey drags us along in the meanders of an adventure which succeeds in rising to the just  » height of the soul  » so dear to Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry (famous French novelist and aviator).