PERCIVAL EVERETT LOGICA PREDICATIVA - CARLOCINQUE GALLERY

PERCIVAL EVERETT

"PREDICATE LOGIC"

FROM JUNE 12, 2025, TO AUGUST 2, 2025

OPENING JUNE 12 FROM 5:00 PM

CARLOCINQUE Gallery is pleased to present Predicate Logic, the first Italian solo exhibition of the American writer and artist Percival Everett, scheduled from June 12 to August 2, 2025. With this project, Everett opens his visual research to the public, creating one of the most significant moments of La Milanesiana 2025. The exhibition, curated by Elisabetta Sgarbi and Luca Volpatti, is carried out in collaboration with Show Gallery and Margot Ross.

Author of over thirty novels and a central figure in contemporary American literature, Percival Everett received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with James, published in Italy by La nave di Teseo. In this novel, the author reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by giving the slave character Jim a new centrality: no longer an ancillary figure but a conscious protagonist, an agent of his own destiny.

The works collected in Predicate Logic testify to a similar intellectual and formal tension. Everett's painting never yields to narration or didactic representation: it is an autonomous practice, constructed through layers and counterpoints, where the abstract form becomes a field for reflection on identity, perception, and the threshold of the invisible. Each work invites active engagement, placing the responsibility of interpretation back onto the viewer.

With this exhibition, CARLOCINQUE Gallery renews its commitment to promoting artistic visions that question the present, hosting an author whose outlook moves with rigor and freedom between literature and visual arts, outside any classification.

A professor of literature and critical theory at the University of Southern California, Everett is known for a body of work that challenges the structures of language and power, crossing genres and registers with consistency and radicalism. Alongside his writing, he has pursued a visual research for over thirty years that is based on abstraction as a form of thought, construction, and dissent.
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