Nissan Leviathan
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As a computer graphics artist I work in front of my computers’ screens, employing a variety of 2D and 3D digital graphics programs as my brushes, my palettes of paints as well as my cameras, with which I create my artworks. These are usually about fantastic realities, as if to follow Valerio Adami’s assertion “Before a painting one must see something other than what one knows already. Associations and significances mingle together beyond the palette.”
My creations usually feature uncanny compositions. They cannot exist in our real world but only within my own mind, where they are conceived, designed, fashioned, textured, painted and finally photographed. In addition, my artworks are also characterized by their dazzling colors and razor-sharp details, thus trying to reach a final result which is stunning and vibrant fine art creation. I usually create my artworks by first producing a short animated footage around the painting's theme and then choosing one frame, which I later turn to be the final still image artwork.
Nissan Leviathan
Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nissan Leviathan enjoyed a successful life-time career in the Israeli high-tech industry, initially as a marketer, involved in exporting high-end technologies to the world and later as an investor.
At the same time, he was completely immersed in contemporary art in general and in pop art in particular, initially as a collector and later on as an artist. The triggering seeds for his passion to pop art are his joy of life as well as his fascination with colors, light and reflections.
An avid Francophile, he spent many of his adult years in France. During his stay in Paris, where two of his four children were born, Nissan Leviathan got acquainted with many artists with whom he socialized and whose works he acquired. Among these are Erró, Monory, Adami, Combas, César, Klasen and Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, to mention a few. During these years, the artist also fell in love with the art of glass blowing. He joined a Parisian glass blowing studio as a trainee and spent time in Seattle to learn this ancient art from Dale Chihuly.
In 1999, Nissan Leviathan returned to Israel with his family where, for the first time in his life, he completely devoted himself to art. For about fifteen years, he was engaged in sculpting monumental outdoor self-glowing sculptures, made of neon and colored plexiglass. In recent years, probably thanks to his background with computers, the artist specialized in a selection of 2D and 3D software programs and evolved into being a productive digital artist.
Today, Nissan Leviathan works in front of his computers’ screens, employing a variety of digital graphics programs as his brushes, his palettes of paints as well as his cameras, with which he creates his artworks. These colorful artworks are usually about Fantastic Reality, as if to follow Valerio Adami’s assertion “Before a painting one must see something other than what one knows already. Associations and significances mingle together beyond the palette.” These Fantastic Realities cannot exist in our real world but only within the artist's own mind, where they are conceived, designed, fashioned, textured, painted and finally photographed.
Nissan Leviathan usually creates his artworks by first producing a short animated footage around the painting's theme, and then choosing one frame which later on is turned to be the final still artwork. The artist, who is involved in the community daily life, finds himself working on issues which are on the national and global agenda. Thus, for example, Lip Service calls for the need to end the Arms Race, Sweet LOVE Blue humbly tries to support the world hunger eradication campaign, Fever Pitch, Homage to Jerry Lee Lewis strives to attract global attention to the Global Warming crisis and Miss Universe supports world gender equality, to mention only a few.
As these lines are written, the artist is working on new creations that are all about the COVID-19 virus that is driving the entire world crazy. It is hoped that by the deadline for the submission, a cure will be found.
Website https://www.leviathan.gallery/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nissanleviathan/
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 Portugal Lisboa “The feminine nature is the protagonist of Cristina Cabrita's canvases, precisely because the woman has that particular sensitivity that can guide her and lead her to observe reality through the softness of the nuances, and it is perhaps by virtue of that same sensitivity that she bends to find the... |
 Italy roma “Whenever the earth is covered with the fragrant, multi-colored flowers of spring, then from the thick darkness you will rise again, a marvelous prodigy for mortal men and gods.
Homeric hymn to Demeter, vv. 401 – 403
Kore daughter of Demeter and Zeus spends half of the year underground in the... |
 China - Hong Kong / Macau Hong Kong The idea of Unpeeling started with one of the artist’s grandma’s after dinner habits - peeling oranges and share them with her family. The act of peeling oranges symbolizes sharing, connecting and healing. Peeling the orange reveal the vulnerable center, and metaphorically this action exposes the ar... |
 United Kingdom London Several weeks before the lockdown we had hiked up the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye, to capture the sunrise. It was a very cold Feb morning we had left the car park in the dark when we reached the old man. Having taken shots of the Old man I turned around and this shot was directly behind me.... |
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