Milan, Galleria Silva dedicates an exhibition to Carlo Levi painter

Seventeen works by the great Carlo Levi (Turin, 1902 - Rome, 1975), painter, politician, and writer (he is the author of the unforgettable Christ Stopped at Eboli), one of the great names of twentieth-century culture, are on display at Galleria Silva at 12 Borgospesso Street, Milan, from Oct. 1 to 30, 2020.

Galleria Silva, a Milan-based boutique specializing in ancient art, will in fact host the exhibition Carlo Levi Pittore, consistent with current health regulations. The exhibition, originally scheduled to run from March 12 to April 11, will bring a group of paintings by one of the 20th century’s most representative and multifaceted personalities back to the Lombard capital after a 40-year absence. The artist and intellectual from Turin was a tireless thinker, moving with extreme fluency from page to canvas, from public debate to verse.

The exhibition reconstructs the artist’s evolution, from the 1920s, when he was still under the influence of Felice Casorati, to the years of his initiatory trip to the French capital, to the period of his highly personal form of pictorial expressionism, an uninterrupted tale of places, emotional ties and cultural experiences.

"The Carlo Levi painter exhibition will be the first exhibition we host after the emergency and the reopening of the gallery," says curator Lucia Silva. “At such a complex time, we are honored to start again precisely with a multifaceted intellectual, endowed with great intelligence, sensitivity and vital energy, capable of adapting to any situation and feeling at ease in any place, thus revealing his passion for life, for the human being, for nature. A superb storyteller of life, travel and politics, he allows us to know and retrace recent history with all its contradictions. In his pictorial production, which is truly vast, the affirmation of freedom and love is evident, a love for an instinctive and profound pictorial gesture, at times delicate and at other times vigorous, but always poetic.”

The Silva family has been in the antiques business for four generations, since Enrico Silva opened the first Art Gallery in Venice in 1920. Since then, with the same commitment and passion, Galleria Silva has been carrying on the family business, involving enthusiasts and collectors and counting among its clients such illustrious names as Maria Callas, Paulette Goddard and E.M. Remarque.

For all information you can visit the official website of Silva Gallery.

Pictured: Carlo Levi, Self-Portrait (1928).

Milan, Galleria Silva dedicates an exhibition to Carlo Levi painter

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