Rome, Carlo Levi's political works on display at the Villa Torlonia Museums

The exhibition Carlo Levi and the Art of Politics, curated by the Carlo Levi Center of Matera and the Carlo Levi Foundation, is on view until March 22, 2020, at the Villa Torlonia Museums, Casino dei Principi, in the context of Levi’s multifaceted personality, from literature to poetry, from painting to drawing.

Reflection also on the production related to political graphics, which was largely realized at the turn of the years 1947-1948, on the pages of the newspaper “L’Italia Socialista” directed by Aldo Garosci.

The approximately 30 pictorial works on display, referring to the chronological scope 1945-1950, integrate the flow of historical events touched by the newspaper and the cartoons, pointing out from time to time stylistic affinities, thematic revivals, also underlining the’absolute originality and autonomy of the satirical illustrator Levi from the artist or author of Christ Stopped at Eboli or the novel The Clock, published in 1950, which represents the literary counterpart of the same events illustrated by the graphic plates.

The 58 political drawings in the exhibition recount, in a concise and ironic artistic form, the formative political season ofRepublican Italy and record the crucial passage that would lead, from 1949, some of the protagonists of that season (Olivetti in primis) to a commitment to the “politics of doing.” This exhibition section and the related catalog, aims to make a contribution to the overall critical evaluation of Levi’s political graphics, placed in the context of his broad artistic production, and of Italian graphics contemporary to him.A second section of the exhibition focuses on a nucleus of 46 pictorial works by the artist (mostly owned by the Carlo Levi Foundation, with some unpublished loans from private collections) referring to the chronological period 1932-1973.

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Rome, Carlo Levi's political works on display at the Villa Torlonia Museums

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