Born in 1936 in Lodz, Léon Levkovitch is a Polish sculptor. Graduated in visual arts from the School of Applied Arts in Lodz, he arrived in Paris in 1961.
Leon Lewkowicz graduated from the National Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź in 1960, in the studio of Zdzisław Głowacki. In 1961, he moved to Paris, where he still lives and works today. In 1970, he completed his studies at the lithography workshop of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since 1972, he has also worked in Pietrasanta, Italy, where most of his small sculptures (in bronze and terracotta) are made.
A meeting with gallery owner Abel Rosenberg in 1969 gave his career a boost, opening the doors to his Parisian gallery. This place crystallizes the ideas, experiments, and notable figures of the time.
His works abound with metaphors and references to mythology (Ulysses and his raft). The artist explores drawing and painting, but sculpture (in bronze or terracotta) remains his privileged field of experimentation. Léon The sculptor preserves through the 3D figure the same concern for representation that he cultivated with the art of painting. His creations follow the same construction process as still life. The sense of microscopic detail is combined with the construction of a geometric whole. The base is also the language of another poetry, a story or a dream which is grafted to the structure. From this angle, the writer Marc Hérissé praised his “most often heraldic human silhouettes on which he re-scratches still other silhouettes” and his ability to bring out the depths, to awaken unsuspected dreams and bring light back to memory. obscure. The artist also praises beauty, that of a female bust, or the right balance of the curves of a being. Harmony reigns, expression blooms and gentleness tempers.
He has numerous exhibitions: the Abel Rosenberg gallery in Paris in 1969, the Salon de Mai in 1978, the Lambert workshop in 1984, the Mars salon with the Hansma gallery in 1992, the Singuliers gallery in 1998... His works are the subject of numerous acquisitions: museums of Haifa, Strasbourg, city of Paris, National Library, City Bank in New York. Leon Levkovitch has been exhibiting since 1962.
