In Viareggio a major exhibition on post-macchiaiolo Moses Levy, with more than one hundred works

Until Sept. 15, 2019 (it opened last Feb. 3), the “Lorenzo Viani” Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Viareggio is hosting a major monographic exhibition on Moses Levy (Tunis, 1885 - Viareggio, 1968), a great post-Macchiaiolo painter who was long active in Viareggio itself, where he moved in 1918. The exhibition presents the entire, complex artistic life of Levy, an artist of English father and Leghorn mother, and of Jewish origins: the countries in which he lived (Tunisia, Italy and France) and that he visited (Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Holland, Sweden) are recounted to arrive at the light and colors of Viareggio, a sort of adoptive homeland of the artist, attracted by the beaches, the sea, the pine forests, the waterfront, and the clubs of the Tuscan city. A reality that was often transposed to evoke other suggestions such as the magic of deserts, markets and Arab dances. The Viareggio exhibition, entitled Moses Levy. Sweetness Will Return to the Sea, presents an important body of Levy’s work: 115 paintings on display in all, including as many as 36 previously unseen works and 19 works donated in 1996 by the Levy family to the city of Viareggio.

The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, Assicurazione Generali Gargano Meciani, ICare and the collaboration with the Cultural Association Ville Borbone e Dimore storiche della Versilia. With this exhibition, Viareggio wants to celebrate an artist who skillfully traversed multiple avenues of the twentieth century through a personal stylistic figure extended to multiple registers where the unbroken vocation for originality and exquisite refinement can be traced. The exhibition is also a way to promote the confrontation between different cultures, and Levy is a firsthand witness of the worst events that crossed the twentieth century: of Jewish religion, he was affected by the racial laws of 1938 that forced him to leave Italy to take refuge first in Nice and then in Tunis.

The exhibition opens daily (except Mondays, which are closed) from 6 to 11 p.m., until Aug. 31. From Aug. 31 onward open Wednesday through Saturday from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information you can visit the website of the Viareggio Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Pictured: Moses Levy, Woman with Parasol (1921)

In Viareggio a major exhibition on post-macchiaiolo Moses Levy, with more than one hundred works

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