Felice Levini's Self-Museifying Retrospective at Museo Carlo Bilotti

Felice Levini (born 1956, Rome) presents a self-anthologizing, ironically self-museifying exhibition at the Museo Carlo Bilotti – Aranciera di Villa Borghese in Rome. The show features works spanning his career, including a life-sized horse statue on a chessboard of wars, a 10-meter panel titled 'Progettare il caos' (2020) created during the pandemic, and a cardboard project 'Zeus' (2017). The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog text by Costantino D'Orazio. The review, written by poet Claudio Damiani, contrasts D'Orazio's view that Levini lacks anxiety with Damiani's interpretation of deep anguish beneath the artist's ironic surface. Damiani connects Levini's recurring motifs—acrobats, parachutists, a diver, a skull, a hanged figure—to philosopher Emanuele Severino's metaphor of the trapeze artist suspended between trapezes, representing humanity's loss of religious and epistemic foundations. The exhibition opened in November 2021.