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Adi Lev is a naive painter, who lives in Israel, born 1958. Art site: http://www.adilev-art.com In his painting reappears motif of relationship between pairs: man and women, father and his daughter, child and his music instrument, using symbolic heart like look and colors to show cross feeling betweens couples. In his painting he mix naive static paint with symbolism full of sensensual feeling, like red yellow sun, snake on a tree, mysterious shrew and card symbols, hidden heart. Adi Lev returns to painting in 2008. His paintings document his life and especially the separation from his wife and somehow from the family, letting his feeling express in art. The slow process which brought him to this state. His Jewish wife who become interested in Christianity, viewing with her church painting, results in the painting divine love, but not a true non suffer love. The belief that a separation will give new sun light for the couple. Yet this causes storm, remembering old feeling and family, which connects husband and wife hands like a rope showing white lines in the women hair. A painting remembering being once a spring lovers is now like a sweat memory dream. He documents how his children handle the family taken apart. The young boy plays in free time blues with his girlfriend human like guitar. The daughter, who found support by her boyfriend, Eden, but the snake is there and may destroy the fragile paradise. He supporting his daughter but they are over a coconut boat. His biggest son is in the army. It is time of war, and he sees him rather rarely, showing the boy hugging his girlfriends. From the family only the cats seem to take it easy. Seeking a new women in his life he got support from a friend painter, ex social worker, and supporting her back, removing fear as appear in the mirror as black crow over the shoulder and empty Persian eyes and finding hidden red spirit, enjoying her true temper, and the drawing of looking apart couple, because he understand it will not become a true love. His painting of The Shrew and the women in nude shows his desire to find Eden love again.
Group Exhibitions: Magen David and Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun) ,Yigal Alon Culture House, Safed, 2009 The Fig- Hatena ,Mear House,Rosh Pina, 2009 Eli Cohen Center ,Kfar Saba, 2010 Naive Story ,Galerina, Bat-Shlomo, 2011 |