Artist Alex Levin. Venetian Fantasy (36 works)

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Beautiful, enchanting Venice... Each of us invariably associates this city with canals, gondolas and, of course, carnival. It was the latter event that inspired the artist Alex Levin to create a series of paintings, where the main element is a unique symbol of the city on the water - a carnival mask.

“Venice itself is a city in a mask, and it is through the mask that this enchanted city looks at the entire world around it,” says Alex Levin, who called his series of paintings “Venice through the mask’s eyes.” And indeed: the old city seems to look at us through richly decorated masks, and the most recognizable corners of Venice are visible through the eye slits.
The author paints his paintings using the 16th century technique, using tempera and oil paints. Alex's paintings combine two genres - landscape and figurative painting, but this in no way leads to a deterioration in the quality or expressiveness of his work.
The artist’s works very accurately convey the mood of Venice. Gondoliers and their passengers, lace palazzos, ripples on the surface of the canals and the rays of the setting sun on the roofs of houses... Now you don’t have to go to Italy to see all this. You just need to look through the holes in the mask and plunge into the captivating atmosphere of this unique city. And the masks themselves are worth paying special attention to and considering along with the sights of Venice - decorated with rich fabrics, feathers and jewelry, they personify the sensuality and intrigue of the carnival.
Alex Levin was born in 1975 in Kyiv (Ukraine), where he graduated with honors from the Academy of Arts. In 1990, the artist emigrated to Israel.