CHICHE LEVY´S UNSADDLE was presented in the Art Gallery of Newbery Central on November 2nd 2012 and was opened to the public until the 18th .
Text fron the curator
Text from the curator: Viviana Romay
CHICHE LEVY unsaddles and does it in many ways:
It’s his opening show. The first of a photographer- inventor that steps out of his status quo and is willing to encounter in other challenges; no less than of the challenge of being an artist.
He is a photographer –inventor because he creates the technical resource that the wanted images gives him, the one that will be exclusively product of his imagination: a device called “zoomlight” totally independent from the camera, it allows to shoot beams of light over objects manually and versatile modifying its intensity, definition, size and even shape.
This work, even though it is mostly figurative, does not come from the observation of reality; it doesn’t have anything to do with the area of human experience but belongs to a world that breaks from afar, a world invented by Levy.
Like a medium, the chair appears making present those worlds that even if unpredictable, resonate in some corner of our being. It’s the metaphoric resource that Levy uses to comply us with the absence-presence dichotomy. She adapts many forms, reflexes its shadows, blows up in thousands of pieces, lays scattered on the floor or appears ghostly in space.
And this is how the artist in Levy unsaddles, emancipating and invites us to flow giving place to the strange and unsettling feeling that his images produces and that opens before us endless meanings.
Viviana Romay
