Ernesto Levy's Books

Ernesto Levy's books caught me by surprise. A short email was waiting in the mailbox, and led to a meeting in his studio: 30 years of works, stories of love and art, spread out on the walls. Then, a huge library and over 100 sketchbooks. The high windows shed a soft light on seven one-off artist’s books wrapped in cloth or sealed with a ribbon, placed on a heavy wooden table.
Among them are coffee and color stains that embody numerous motivations: they are ornamented and bordered in Tipp-ex, watercolors, pencils, and colored pens. Some of them, like Wine and Coffee, tell a story about perseverance, sorrow, and good taste; others, like the book Two Skies, become abstract constellations, that exist between the Kabbalistic spheres and the wings of fallen angels who sought to be assimilated into the pages.
Ernesto's books are like passports to realms where the spirit can run free. And he makes the double spread, as a medium, into a spontaneous space for theological, philosophical, psychological, and artistic reflection.

20.06.2024