Carlo Levi was born in 1902 in Turin. Around 1922, the young Carlo became friends with Piero Gobetti, who invited him to collaborate with his magazine "La Revolution Liberale" and in 1923 he wrote the first article on his painting for "The New Order". Gobetti introduced him to the Casorati school, around which the young Turin avant-garde gravitates. Thus works were born (Self-portrait, 1923; Arcadia, 1923; Brother and sister, 1925) which are influenced by the stylistic lesson of the master, but which also demonstrate Levi's openness to the artists of the "new objectivity" (Kanoldt, Schad, Beckmann ). In these years Levi appears inserted in the cultural environment of Turin: he frequented Cesare Pavese, Giacomo Noventa, Antonio Gramsci, C.L. Ragghianti, Carlo Levi, Florence, 1948. Carlo Levi- Drawings from prison 1934- Material for a story, exhibition catalog, Rome, 1983; Carlo Levi. Works from 1923 to 1973, exhibition catalog, Perugia, 1988; Gardens and Ghettos, exhibition catalog edited by .V. B. Mann, contributions by E. Braun, F.R. Morelli, New York 1989, Ferrara 1990 (with the title I Tal Yà); Art of freedom, caytalogue of the exhibition curated by F. Sborgi, Genoa 1996....