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Leo dealt with few
objects. The reason is that he undertakes a project only
if it is unprecedented.
Not a question of a further decoration, of variation on
a theme, of a gimmick.
His research approach to Judaica is a straight result of
his scientific background, his projects have to entail
entirely new modes:
• enhance ritual
functions
(inclined parchment mezuzoth, double
sided Hannukkah lamp);
•
originally apply disciplines, such as optics
(anamorphic reflection Kiddush sets) and
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topology ("Gradient" Kiddush set);
•
integrate symbols and ritual ("Gradient" Kiddush
set, Magen David mezuzah);
•
achieve total custom through the integration of ritual
and family
("Three Generations" reflection
Kiddush set). |
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It has to accomplish its purpose in a direct and
possibly stern way, no place being left to
embellishment, leisure, curiosity satisfaction.
Quantity and quality hardly go together.
Leo is an artist and it deals with his works as an
artist does: either doing them by his hands or
performing personal interventions on those which are
made as multiples, so as to legitimate his signature and
to ensure who acquires them to own an original object.
For this reason you will find Leo’s works exclusively in
top-end Judaica galleries and shops.
Refer to this thorough program when evaluating Leo’s
Judaica.
Born in Nice in 1939,
to Italian parents from Ferrara; lived in Rome and Milan
(where he graduated in nuclear engineering) until 67,
when he settled in Israel. Since the seventies he
devotes himself uniquely to artistic creation. He spent
long periods in Sao Paulo, Firenze, especially Paris. He
had one man shows wherever he lived - twenty five until
today. He lives and works in Jaffa.
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