CRITIQUES
Reviews
This page presents several extracts of criticisms and speeches.For each of them, get the whole text by a simple click.
« 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.»
Article de Michel Prigent ‘les deux passions de Michel Lévy’ (La République)
«Nothing is acquired to the man forever, who is in perpetual future. Michael LEVY’s sculptures tell us the story of a research. If we often spoke about duality about his artwork, it is doubtless because Michael LEVY searched for the original unity, trying exactly to reconcile the various aspects of the human nature.»
Article de Anne-Julie Bemont ‘Michel Lévy, l’œuvre et la légende’ (Univers des Arts)
« 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. »
Article de Léon Abramowicz ‘Le cantique de bronze’ (L’Arche)
«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.»
Article de Patrice de Perrière ‘Au-delà du seul esthétisme, le Vrai’ (Univers des arts)
«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 uses fire and bronze to give life to the reality living in his heart. His loving fingers obey at his glance, and carve with light and shade the shapes haunting him. Chaste and serene, they seem to burst out of a dream to illustrate a myth. The truth of his characters penetrates us by the bodies’ harmony. They appear to dart from a light, the fruit of which they are. »
Préface pour l’œuvre de Michel Lévy, par André Chouraqui
« 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. »
Article de Françoise de Céligny ‘Michel Lévy, la réalité de l’invisible’ (Univers des Arts)
«It is not accidentally if the gigantic bronze disk which welcomes here the visitor carries the name of “Duality”. This only word summarizes the temperament of one of the most talented sculptors of his generation, torn between classical author and baroque, sex and soul, life and death, grotesque and sublime, good and evil or balance and fall.»
Marc Herisse (Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot)