Fulvia Levi Bianchi

This exhibition is dedicated to the Italian artist Fulvia Levi Bianchi (1927-2006), a key figure in Milan’s vibrant art scene during the second half of the 20th century.

Born in Trieste in 1927, Fulvia Levi Bianchi moved to Milan as a child and attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. From the early 1960s, she explored drawing, painting, and sculpture, engaging in a constant dialogue and exchange with some of the most important artists, critics, and gallerists of the time, including Lucio Fontana, Pierre Restany, and Alexander Iolas, with whom she exhibited in Milan, Athens, Paris and New York between 1971 and 1983.

The exhibition features around thirty paintings and works on paper created between the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. During this decade, marked by her greatest artistic maturity, Levi Bianchi transitioned from works still visibly linked to the study of Surrealism and from graphic art to an organic painting style, rich in symbolism, yet intimate and personal. During these years, Levi Bianchi produced her first eggs and breasts, two iconographic elements that would accompany her throughout her future work, becoming her best known and most recognisable signature.

With Fulvia Levi Bianchi, Tommaso Calabro continues the exploration of some of the most representative names in Post-war Italian art, celebrating an artist who stood out for her personal and collectively valuable artistic research, without compromising with the trends of the moment.