The event introduces a group of drawings that belong to Levy's first production and around 130 drawings that show significant moments of his artistic activity.

Moses Levy spent much of his time in Versilia, Viareggio, and Tunisia, places where the artist borrowed the subjects for his work. Light and colour situations of a mundane Viareggio, magical North African atmospheres and poetic visions of countries he visited, from Spain to Paris to Venice.

Moses Levy's pictorial style finds an essential element in colour, treated with exceptional awareness, nourished by his culture, which is in his own personal way re-elaborates some basic suggestions of French post-impressionism, from «Cloissonisme», to fauves, to Matisse and Cézanne.

The exhibition reconstructs Levy's artistic history starting from the "post-macchiaiola" stage, where he was still receptive to the influence of Fattori's stroke and contemporary painting tradition in Tuscany. Closeness to artists of the Roman Secession will bring in new elements to his painting, already mature for talent, also removing it from the original divisionism inclinations in favour of a "structural" use of colour.

Levy reaches his own style where many cultural influences merge, from Alberto Magri's primitivism to Fattori and Viani's strength of stroke, the chromatic and structural intensity of the French post-impressionist and the fauves. The exhibition documents Levy's knowledge of the orientalist tradition, as well his interest for Cézanne which distinguishes his painting in the Thirties and after the second world war.

(In the picture: Spiaggia con bagnanti - oil on canvas, cm 50x70)

Le stagioni del colore
Where: Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza
When: 14 July - 6 October 2002
Opening times: 1630 - 2300 until 15 September. From 16 September to 6 October 1530 - 2030. Closed on Mondays
Tickets: 5 euro, 3 euro conc.
Information: tel. 0584-756100

July.2002

Municipality of Seravezza (In Italian)
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Province of Lucca