Nissan Leviathan - BioBorn in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nissan Leviathan enjoyed a successful life-time career in the Israeli high-tech industry. At the same time, he was completely immersed in contemporary art in general and in pop art in particular, initially as...
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Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nissan
Leviathan enjoyed a successful life-time career in the Israeli high-tech
industry. 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 for pop art are his joy of life
as well as his fascination with light, colors and reflections.
An avid Francophile, he spent
many of his adult years in France. During his stay in Paris, 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 with Dale Chihuly in Seattle to enhance
his mastery of this ancient art.
In 1999, Nissan Leviathan returned
to Israel where he completely devoted himself to creating art. For about
fifteen years, he was engaged in sculpting monumental outdoor self-glowing
sculptures, made of neon, glass and colored plexiglass. In recent years, 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.
