The painting is not the purpose in essence, it’s only one of the tools to make visible to man and for man what is unknown.
Achille Perilli was born in Rome in 1927, and at just 14 years old, he already worked in Aldo Baldinelli’s studio, assisting him with his drawings and paintings in company of Dorazio. Later, in 1945, he studied Fine Arts and contemporary literature. The same year he founded the Grupo Arte Sociale with more artists, with whom just a year later he exhibited for first time. But an important turning point came in 1947, when he signed the manifesto Forma 1 accompanied by other creators, giving way to the creation of an avant-garde group of Marxist inspiration and a rejection of realistic-figurative art. The works of this first period are characterized by a rationalized use of space and shapes, close to the trends of geometric abstraction. The sum of lines and planes, as well as colors of great contrasts, constitute various architectures in his work.
Since then his career develops by means of painting, but he works too in scripture of articles and theory, as well as in theatre, by means of scenographies and costumes design. The artist’s commitment to research leads him to investigate new formal solutions, such as graffiti, made from 1958, and where he introduces materials such as pumice, marble dust, chalk or vinyl acetate, entering the terrain of informalism, thus breaking with the geometrization of space that characterized him in his early works.
He also regularly travels through Europe discovering the work of other artists, highlighting his visit to Spain (1953), Paris (1956) or Warsaw and Krakow (1969). As far as painting is concerned, he will exhibit with some frequency throughout Italy, but also in cities of great importance such as New York, Amsterdam, Prague, Moscow or Düsseldorf, both individually and collectively.
List of artworks
Ecologicamente puri , 1973
Sense títol , 1975
Da dies irae , 1978
Da dies irae , 1978
Ecologicamente puri , 1973
Sense títol , 1975
Da dies irae , 1978
Press articles
Continuum
Josep Suñol Collection
A journey through the last ninety years of artistic creation and offers an excellent platform for thinking about 20th-century art.
I sei sensi (The Six Senses)
Italia
A glimpse at the Josep Suñol Collection focusing on works by Italian artists from the second avant-garde such as Fontana, Battaglia or Longobardi.
Everything Solid Fades Away
In Three Acts
The second act, titled Everything Solid Fades Away, is a journey through a group of works that allow us to understand the extent to which the abstract pulsation did...
Italia. I sei sensi as seen by...
Visits that offer readings from different creative disciplines of contemporary Italian culture, and also analysis of specific aspects of the exhibited artworks
ITALIA. I sei sensi (The Six Senses)
Exhibition dedicated to the second avant-guard Italian artists present in the Suñol Soler Collection.
