A dreamscape exhibition that includes illustrated poetry and lithographs.
Let the show begin! Make your way up a flight of stairs to the first floor and join in the wonder of flying horses and embracing couples while a weightless Eiffel Tower floats happily by. And, like magic, as you move from intimate space to intimate space, flowers will bloom on the walls around you. Delineated by variously coloured stage-like curtains, each room takes on its own fantasy-like performance. Presently showing at the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne, the exhibition CHAGALL tells the story of the artist’s creative journey through text, printmaking and his larger-scale operatic works and stained-glass window installations.
Celebrating the artist’s distinctive visual language, Curator Jade Niklai draws from his folkloric Russian roots to his Parisian influences spanning fauvism, cubism and expressionism to explore themes around language, literature and the Bible, as well as the theatre and the natural world.
Born in 1887 in Vitebsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, Marc Chagall grew up in a Hassidic Jewish family – later relocating to Paris, which became his second home.
Chagall’s imagery not only reveals the joy, love and wonder he saw in the world around him, through his use of flowing lines and bright colours, but also at times hints of a melancholy – an inner world coming to terms perhaps with the turmoil of the times in which he lived.
Read the review of this exhibition by Mem Capp on Arts Hub.