The Concept
Books may be fading, but they reemerge
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
2024: Members' Juried: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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
2022: Members' Open: Small Works, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
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
2020: Members' Open: Freedom at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
2019: Members' Open: Small Works at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
2019: Members' Juried Exhibition at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Cape Cod
2019: Open House Brooklyn Navy Yard
2019: Group exhibition "Kindred Constructs", Yard Work Gallery, Brooklyn Navy Yard
2018-19: Group exhibition “20 Year Anniversary” at Wuersch & Gering, New York
2018: Open House Brooklyn Navy Yard
2014: 9/11 Memorial Museum collection
2012: Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2008-2009: 10th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Wuersch & Gering,New York
2007: Group exhibition "Imprints" by ARTEON NY, Isona 57 Gallery
2004-07: Conceptual art project “LaundroART” with Claire Ernst Christen
2003: Group exhibition “Small Works”, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York
2002-03: Solo exhibition at Wuersch & Gering, New York, as part of SwisspeaksFESTIVAL
2002: Installation at group exhibition “Artsthma”, Bronx River Art Center
2002: Quilt for 9/11 project september11quilts.org, curated by Drunell Levinson
2002: Group exhibition “Small Works”, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York
2002: Design competition for Swiss Pavillon at planned French Expo in Seine-St-Denis, France
2001: Group exhibition “Little Picture Show, Custer County Art Center, Montana
2001: Group exhibition “Small Works”, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York
2000: Double exhibition, Atelier Portenier, Uffheim, France
2000: Group exhibition, New Emporium Gallery, New Suffolk, NY
1999: Double exhibition “Nude Nature,” La MaMa La Galleria, New York
1998: Group exhibition Visions from New York, locations in Switzerland and on the internet
1998: Silent auction Swiss Institute NY
1998: Ikebana installation at P.S.1, Citibank, New York
1998: Group exhibition, Atelier Portenier, Uffheim, France
1997: Ikebana installations, Swiss Institute New York
1996: Ikebana installations and drawings, Swiss Institute New York
1996: Ikebana installation, Kunsthalle New York
1993: Group exhibition, Atelier Portenier, Uffheim, France
1992: Solo exhibition, Werkraum Schlotterbeck, Basel, Switzerland
