NEXT LEVEL GALLERY

Japan living

José Levy speaks at NextLevel Gallery about the experience of Japan,living in Kyoto at the french prestigious artist residence Villa Kujoyama, before, during and after. Works testimonials, a carpet, a screen, masks-sculptures and photos in slide show Display the form of a visual and emotional diary, unveiled with modesty in the eyes of the visitor. An ode to the exoticism yet passed stories of Pierre Loti or Japonisme Art Nouveau. Through this exhibition, José Lévy seeks to bring out accurately these invisible dimen- sions, to reveal a new face of Japan as himself. Fusionist clash between Paris and Kyoto, the hypnotic «Zen carpet of bitumen» invite to meditation with its furrows carved into the wool of the Manufacture of Moroges; Passage of mineral and vegetarian Zen Japanese Parisian bitumen. The screen of her grandmother «Dora» becomes a light sculpture and silhouettes in size on wallpaper illuminating the interior of a Japanese pavilion or an apartment in the square of Arenas Lutece in Paris. The Noh theater masks, the enigmatic tatami faces «Beaumarchais & Juliette» sound our soul, and ap- pear in the form of seats-sculptures of fiberglass covered with tatami, family-type, for the first time takes relief . Through these pieces, José Lévy approached Japan with the dimension of transversality that characterized and intimated it for the meter-étalon. «Judogi» speaks of the other but first of all of oneself. Inside travel, invite yourself to an emotional jet lag with a troubled facet of the creator’s universe. The observed reality is often observed and modified.