Mariangela Levita Wins Inaugural ALA Art Prize

Mariangela Levita (Aversa, 1972) has won the first edition of the ALA Art Prize, launched by ALA for Art, a project promoted by ALA, a Naples-based leader in advanced logistics and precision mechanical components for aerospace, founded in 2009 by Fulvio Scannapieco and Vittorio Genna. Her winning work, titled UP, will enter the nascent corporate collection. The jury—comprising Lorenzo Benedetti (curator at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland), Eugenio Viola (head curator at MAMBO – Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá and curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale), and Alessia Volpe (independent curator and former director of Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples)—selected UP for its message of hope and renewal. Volpe noted that the work invites viewers to lift their gaze beyond contingency. Benedetti praised its elegant chromatic balance and geometric typography linking to both context and historical moment. Viola described Levita's meta-pictorial research as an 'expanded' conception of painting that blurs boundaries between representation and environment, transforming sight into a listening-like perception. Levita will produce the work over the coming weeks, with its unveiling scheduled for September 14 at ALA's headquarters in the Mostra d'Oltremare, Naples.