(ANSA) – LUCCA, 14 DEC – An exhibition in Lucca will investigate the great friendship that existed between two great intellectuals of the twentieth century, Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (Lucca 1910 – Florence 1987) and the painter, writer and politician Carlo Levi (Turin 1902 – Rome 1975). Created for the fortieth anniversary of the Centro Studi Ragghianti Foundation, in collaboration with the Carlo Levi Foundation of Rome, and curated by Paolo Bolpagni, Daniela Fonti and Antonella Lavorgna, the exhibition will be open from 17 December until 20 March 2022.
In Lucca there are documents that concern in particular the historical-artistic and critical sphere that was at the center of this friendship, in particular a substantial nucleus of letters starting from 1943 and lasting until 1971, plus typewritten texts by Ragghianti on Levi. In the Roman archive there are autographed writings of Ragghianti’s monograph, accompanied by annotations by Levi, as well as unpublished photographs. In addition to the documents, numerous drawings and about 80 paintings by Carlo Levi will be exhibited, which reconstruct not only the structure of the 1948 monograph and the 1967 and 1977 exhibitions curated by Ragghianti, but also the circle of intellectuals and friends to which the two belonged. – Eugenio Montale, Giovanni Colacicchi, Paola Olivetti, Aldo Garosci and others -, with the addition of portraits of characters they both had esteem, such as Italo Calvino and Frank Lloyd Wright. The relationship between Ragghianti and Levi, fundamental for both of them, intensified in Florence, during the Nazi occupation, through the common political militancy in the Resistance, especially after Levi, in 1941, found a clandestine refuge in Anna Maria Ichino’s house in Piazza Pitti. , where he wrote his best-known novel, ‘Christ stopped at Eboli’, to which a section is dedicated.
The exhibition and also the catalog reconstruct, in addition to the circumstances of their friendship, the identity knots of this relationship, the theoretical issues of a historical-artistic nature, and other points of common interest for an action to be carried out within the framework of a policy of Arts. (HANDLE).
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