The Concept
Books may be fading, but they reemerge
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The Artist
The Library Series explores how books slowly fade as repositories of history and tradition. For centuries, books used to express and conserve culture, but now they are increasingly replaced by purely digital media. Marianne Lévai takes books she considers relevant or not and renders them illegible by sealing them in encaustic medium. Then she attaches natural or man-made objects to them, thereby adding scientific, symbolic, and poetic meaning. Thus the partially hidden book is enhanced with significance. In her endeavor to instill new life into the books the artist tries to meld social content relationships with purely personal associations.
Select Exhibitions
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2024: Members' Juried: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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2023-2024: Members’ Open: Small Works, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
2023: Members' Open: Small Works, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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2022: Members' Open: Small Works, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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2022: Art & Object Walk, Brooklyn Navy Yard
2021: Members’ Juried: Small Works, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
2020-2021: Members’ Juried: Provincetown 400
at Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, Cape Cod
2021: Members' Juried, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
2020-2021: Members' Open: Small Works at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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2020: Members' Open: Freedom at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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2019: Members' Open: Small Works at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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2019: Members' Juried Exhibition at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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2019: Open House Brooklyn Navy Yard
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2019: Group exhibition "Kindred Constructs", Yard Work Gallery, Brooklyn Navy Yard
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2018-19: Group exhibition “20 Year Anniversary” at Wuersch & Gering, New York
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2018: Open House Brooklyn Navy Yard
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2014: 9/11 Memorial Museum collection
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2012: Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Massachusetts
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2008-2009: 10th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Wuersch & Gering,New York
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2007: Group exhibition "Imprints" by ARTEON NY, Isona 57 Gallery
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2004-07: Conceptual art project “LaundroART” with Claire Ernst Christen
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2003: Group exhibition “Small Works”, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York
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2002-03: Solo exhibition at Wuersch & Gering, New York, as part of SwisspeaksFESTIVAL
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2002: Installation at group exhibition “Artsthma”, Bronx River Art Center
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2002: Quilt for 9/11 project september11quilts.org, curated by Drunell Levinson
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2002: Group exhibition “Small Works”, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York
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2002: Design competition for Swiss Pavillon at planned French Expo in Seine-St-Denis, France
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2001: Group exhibition “Little Picture Show, Custer County Art Center, Montana
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2001: Group exhibition “Small Works”, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York
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2000: Double exhibition, Atelier Portenier, Uffheim, France
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2000: Group exhibition, New Emporium Gallery, New Suffolk, NY
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1999: Double exhibition “Nude Nature,” La MaMa La Galleria, New York
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1998: Group exhibition Visions from New York, locations in Switzerland and on the internet
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1998: Silent auction Swiss Institute NY
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1998: Ikebana installation at P.S.1, Citibank, New York
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1998: Group exhibition, Atelier Portenier, Uffheim, France
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1997: Ikebana installations, Swiss Institute New York
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1996: Ikebana installations and drawings, Swiss Institute New York
1996: Ikebana installation, Kunsthalle New York
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1993: Group exhibition, Atelier Portenier, Uffheim, France
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1992: Solo exhibition, Werkraum Schlotterbeck, Basel, Switzerland
