Univers, fusain sur papier, 53 x 71 cm, 2016 © Levi Van Veluw, courtesy la galerie particulière
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LEVI VAN VELUW - VENERATION
12/10/2017 - 18/11/2017
PARTICULIÈRE / FOUCHER-BIOUSSE
16, rue du Perche
75003 Paris
www.lagalerieparticuliere.com
The Collapse of Cohesion
Levi van Veluw’s world is regressive : his last works reveal the meaning of the first ones, as each new work enlighten the past series ; his world is like a spiral which would tirelessly go back in time, searching for the catalyst, the original substance.
At the beginning indeed there is a recurrent nightmare as follows : in his bedroom, a child is trying to keep glass balls assembled in his hands. They slip through his fingers, out of them, roll and scatter in every corner of the bedroom as the child is trying to reassemble them and keep them
altogether.
But there is always one glass ball which finally slips out.
There is no more tidiness, no more barriers. The glass balls roll, spread over, and the child must take them back, pick them up one by one, gather them and keep them in order to tirelessly get out of chaos.
[…]
12/10/2017 - 18/11/2017
PARTICULIÈRE / FOUCHER-BIOUSSE
16, rue du Perche
75003 Paris
www.lagalerieparticuliere.com
The Collapse of Cohesion
Levi van Veluw’s world is regressive : his last works reveal the meaning of the first ones, as each new work enlighten the past series ; his world is like a spiral which would tirelessly go back in time, searching for the catalyst, the original substance.
At the beginning indeed there is a recurrent nightmare as follows : in his bedroom, a child is trying to keep glass balls assembled in his hands. They slip through his fingers, out of them, roll and scatter in every corner of the bedroom as the child is trying to reassemble them and keep them
altogether.
But there is always one glass ball which finally slips out.
There is no more tidiness, no more barriers. The glass balls roll, spread over, and the child must take them back, pick them up one by one, gather them and keep them in order to tirelessly get out of chaos.
[…]