Two Skies
Ernesto Levy
2011
The book is made in an empty black notebook. I use colored pencils, watercolors, acrylics, and Tipp-Ex on coffee stains. The book deals with images of constellations that also recall the Kabbalistic Sefirot. It is expressed through mirror images when the points in each double page are parallel, but the connections between them change on each page and create different shapes.
As in my other artist's books, here too there is a reference to various thinkers and sayings from Jewish manuscripts. This book too is a source of inspiration for many of my works presented in exhibitions. I deal with the question of faith and the visual world, and how the duality of the book format is a gateway to parallel realities.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 50
- Type of binding: hard-cover
- Dimensions (cm): 10.5X15.5X2
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas & Shiraz Grinbaum
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.
