A Book Without A Title
Ernesto Levy
1999
The basis of this artist's book is a ready-made book that was published in the city of Leipzig in 1893. The book is written in Gothic letters. It came from Germany to Argentina during the Nazi persecution, and was bought there by my relative Eva Levy in a store called "Pigmalion". It came to Israel through my uncles, from my grandfather's library.
I paint on it with watercolors and ink and produce stains that, through closing and opening the book when the stain is still wet, are unique shapes for each double spread. The pages are very fragile. I taped many of them with magic tape to keep them. The pastings become part of the work of the book.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 917
- Type of binding: hard-cover
- Dimensions (cm): 22X14X5
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv
- Book photography: מדף: יאיר מיוחס ושירז גרינבאום
Ernesto Levy, a visual artist and an architect, graduated from architectural studies at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1978. He presented solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and cultural centers in Israel and abroad. Since 2015 he has been creating in partnership with Tamar Raban in performance, video, cinema, and ensemble shows. His works are in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and in private collections. His artist's books are singular and hand-made in which he explores the Rorschach stain as an experimental and conceptual space; and the book format as a diptych that functions as a gate in the concrete and symbolic sense.
