Felice Levini Biography
Felice Levini was born in Rome in 1956, where he still lives and works today. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts, in 1978 he founded, together with Giuseppe Salvatori and Claudio Damiani, an exhibition space managed by the artists themselves. This place soon became a point of reference for poetry exhibitions and evenings. In the same year, Felice Levini participated in his first collective exhibition entitled “Artericerca '78” held at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
In 1980 he was among the members of the “Nuovi-Nuovi” group, which debuted with the exhibition curated by Renato Barilli at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna in Bologna. Starting in 1982, Levini began to develop his typical style, characterized by a process of decomposition that recalls Seurat's divisionism. In this period he created highly decorative two-dimensional images, which enhance the idea of a speckled "wall". In the late 1980s he moved on to more compact and three-dimensional works dominated by a solid and geometric structure which also led to linear architecture. The themes of his works are mainly self-portraits, animals and arabesques.
During the 1990s Levini developed work that oscillated between the abstract and the figurative; in his installations the repetition of the image, which makes it abstract, is contrasted with the live, human presence. In 1991 he exhibited at the XXXIV Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, in 1993 he was present at the XLV Biennale of Venice, in 1996 at the XII Quadrennial of Rome. In 2013 he exhibited at the GNAM National Gallery of Modern Art.
