Fulvia Levi-Bianchi

FULVIA LEVI BANCHI Born in Trieste, Fulvia LeviBianchi lives and works in Milan. In 1968 she begun her artistic activities entering Milan's artistic circles participating in group and individual exhibitions.

Her works have been exhibited in the most renown modern art galleries in Italy and abroad. Being deeply involved in introspective research in the analysis of life as cosmic participation, she has worked principally on the pure conceptional form of "The egg" representing theenigmatic essence of life through oil paintings, forged highly polished bronze, levigated white marble. It was thus by deepening her studies regarding this theme that she came to know Claude Levi Strauss, world famous Structural Ethnologist who dedicated one of his works to her The content of his piece exaulted the Fulvia LeviBianchi's strategy using as well as the profound meaning and scope of her research.

Today these rare and magical paintings, depicting the oval image entitled "Presence", figure in the most prestigious private collections and international museums in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid Tokyo, Athens, New York, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Milan, Rome and in many other cities.

On the occasion of her one-woman show at the Yolas Gallery in New York she met Andy Warhol and by mutual accord Fulvia Levi Bianchi agreed to interpret the "anti-Warhol" - the antithesis of his famous painting of Marilyn Monroe. Today Fulvia Levi's version of MM is recognized as one of the most fascinating interpretationof this myth existing.

In 1985 Fulvia Levi Bianchi presented a show of 20 portraits of Milan's most socially prominent and famous personalities.The exhibition titled "20 smiles of Our Glory" was reviewed by Pierre Restany world famous art historian and critic.

In May 1986 one of her works was used as the "Ieit-motif symbol and image of the International Design Congress and Exhibition in Stuttgart.

In 1987 she successfully developed an innovative formula for a series of portraits of family groups that can be arranged according to the desire of the client They testify to the fragmentation of everyday life, demonstrating the lack of internal cohesion where the individual is forced to change face in order to adapt to the requirements of society. Between 1994 and 1995 Fulvia LeviBianchi dedicates her artistic research to the magnetic representation of David Copperfield producing 5 magical portraits.

Presently Fulvia Levi Bianchi's paintings and sculptures are in an exhibition with the new Ferraris touring Italy.