Opening of the exhibition “A Plate of Biscuits. Marco Levi (1910-2001)”

The exhibition “A Plate of Biscuits. Marco Levi (1910-2001)” opens in Mondovì on Sunday, March 15.
The exhibition, curated by director Christiana Fissore, offers a retrospective of the life and legacy of the founder of the Ceramics Museum, former director and owner of Ceramica Besio.
The exhibition focuses on objects, documents, and images from the public and private life of Marco Levi, the last representative of the Jewish community of Mondovì, a banker, entrepreneur, director and owner of Ceramica Besio, and founder of the current Mondovì Ceramics Museum. Curated by Christiana Fissore, this exhibition completes the public rediscovery of Levi himself, following the book “Marco Levi. Ceramics, the City, Life” by Cesare Morandini, published last fall by Sagep Editori by the “Vecchia Mondovì” Ceramics Museum Foundation.
“The initiative responds to the need to publicly celebrate Marco Levi, owner and director of the “Vedova Besio e Figlio” ceramics factory for fifty years and creator of the posthumous Ceramics Museum, named after his father Moisè Ettore Levi,” commented the museum’s director, Christiana Fissore. “Five decades of entrepreneurial work at Ceramica Besio and, after the deindustrialization of the 1970s, his essential role in safeguarding and protecting artisanal ceramic production, through his promotion of the “Vecchia Mondovì” and his laying the material foundations for the Museum with the donation of the Baggioli Collection and the creation of the Foundation. This exhibition, therefore, attempts to reconstruct his extraordinary life and work, which remains silent and little-known today.”
“Thanks to everyone who has worked hard over the years to rediscover Marco Levi, starting with his nephew Guido Neppi Modona, director Christiana Fissore, and historian Cesare Morandini,” added Ermanno Tedeschi, president of the Vecchia Mondovì Ceramics Museum Foundation. “This exhibition closes a circle of collective gratitude to Marco Levi, who, as the last member of the city’s centuries-old Jewish community, long worked to enhance the 18th-century synagogue in Piazza Levi, also shaping the city’s cultural landscape with his warm, discreet presence and fervent philanthropic approach.”
The exhibition will open on Sunday, March 15th at 10:30 a.m. at the Mondovì Ceramics Museum (Piazza Maggiore 1). The entire initiative is made possible thanks to the support of Banca Intesa San Paolo, the contribution of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, and the support of Banco Azzoaglio and the Cav. Marchese “G. de Levy” Jewish Foundation of Turin. Free admission.

The event poster is available.