Larry Rivers' Primo Levi Portraits at Castello Gamba

Three paintings by Larry Rivers depicting Primo Levi, acquired by Giovanni Agnelli in 1987, are on display at Castello Gamba in Châtillon, Aosta Valley. The exhibition, titled "Larry Rivers dalla Pinacoteca Agnelli. I tre volti di Primo Levi," opens May 11 and is curated by Marcella Pralormo. The works—Witness, Survivor, and Periodic Table—were inspired by Levi's writings, which Rivers discovered in the mid-1980s through Furio Colombo, then president of Fiat USA. Rivers, born Yitzhok Loiza Grossberg to Russian Jewish parents, connected deeply with Levi's story as he explored his own Jewish heritage. The paintings were originally hung in the "Sala Primo Levi" at La Stampa headquarters in Turin, where Levi had written since 1959. They remained there until 2002, when they were moved to the offices of the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Pinacoteca Agnelli and Castello Gamba, which houses a regional collection of 1,200 modern and contemporary artworks.