In fact, painting, but also the medium, its connection, and above all, its material, are central to his practice. The pictorial material then appears as an element of memory, proof of the passage and resurgence of time, a palimpsest of feeling, of plasticity.
With each interpretation of reality, of a reading that disturbs it, of a piece of news, Franck Leviski can begin a new cycle. Not a series, nor a sequence, but a cycle. Each painting is part of a cycle, and each cycle is a fragment of a global Artwork that is part of the artist's own time. Each cycle is nourished by the previous one and its predecessors.
In this spirit, the cycles of "Vanities," "Masks," and "Attempt at Exhausting Reality" followed, simultaneously, "Transfers" and "Anthropomorphic Forms," "Between Two," "We Are Definitely Not the Last," and then, even today, the cycle of "Chaos." All these titles evoke concepts important to him and that animate his Artwork: mutations, transition, transformation, and, of course, time linked to memory. All of this intertwines in both thought and visual creation, creating a permanent and multifaceted exploration that reflects the temporal dimension of human life.
Franck Leviski was born in 1969 in Périgueux. He studied at the Brive Academy of Fine Arts and later at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts. He currently lives and Artworks in Périgueux, France.
Franck Leviski - Cycle 3-Chaos, Revival - 120x150 cm - 2024 - Mixed media on canvas.
