The Vicky & Marcos Micha Levy Collection (Bilingual edition): Inhabiting Art

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The extraordinary Vicky and Marcos Micha Levy Collection and its masterpieces

This publication honors Mexican collectors Vicky and Marcos Micha Levy and traces their extraordinary artistic journey, bringing to light how, over a period of fifty years, they established a collection of the highest level.

Driven by a keen sense of research, infallible eye, deep knowledge, and a passion for seeking out a great prize they amassed works spanning the development of modernity in Mexico with prevalent figures of Modernism and the national avant-garde such as Jos Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Manuel Rodrguez Lozano, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta in juxtaposition to pioneers in modern art with major works by Chagall, Picasso, Duchamp.

Later, their interest focused on contemporary artists such as Allen Jones, David Hockney, Anselm Kiefer, Miquel Barcel and Robert Rauschenberg. Other treasures in the Levy Micha collection include Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, and douard Manet.

Under the direction of Denise Wendel-Poray, the book features essays by the greatest specialists of Latin American art, Taiyana Pimentel, Ana Elena Mallet, Ana M. Franco, James Oles, Ana Garduo Ortega and of modern and contemporay European art, Jonas Storsve.

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Denise Wendel-Poray is a Canadian writer, journalist and curator. She is the author of books and essays concerning the relationship between art, theatre and music. She has been guest curator Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg Germany (2010- 2012); at the Rupertinum Museum in Salzburg (William Kentridge Works for Theatre 2017); Sammlung Friedrichshof Zurndorf, Austria (Wahlverwandtschaften 2018); RX Galerie Marais Paris (Hermann Nitsch Paintings Only 2018); Galerie ric Dupont Paris (Howard Hodgkin 2015, Sandro Kopp Take Time 2016, Otto Muehl 2018). With Skira she recently published Khalif Tahir Thompson (2023), The Last Days of the Opera (2022) and Painting The Stage: Artists as Stage Designers (2019).