SanGiorgioArte is proud to present the exhibition
ACHILLE PERILLI - THE IMAGINARY SPACE
from Saturday September 4th see you on Saturday October 30 2021.
The exhibition will be open from Monday to Saturday:
morning 10.00 – 13.00; afternoon 16.30 – 19.00
The exhibition is part of the proposals of BiArch – Bari International Archifestival 2021 - FUORIFESTIVAL
Author of a warm abstractionism, Achille Perilli was born in Rome on January 28, 1927. He is known for compositions of shapes that resemble the projection on the plane of parallelepipeds that are ultimately unlikely and irregular, almost unresolved to the eye. Perilli carries out his works through the use of strong color - pleasant and rigorous at the same time - and supports his work with a deliberate “imprecision” that is to the advantage of expressiveness.
After having attended the classical high school, in 1945 he enrolled in the Faculty of Arts; in the following years he was a pupil of Lionello Venturi, with whom he prepared the degree thesis on Giorgio De Chirico's metaphysical painting.
With Dorazio, Guerrini, Vespignani, Buratti, Muccini, Maffioletti, Perilli he founded the Gruppo Arte Sociale (GAS); at the same time he collaborates in the creation and editing of the magazines “Ariele” and “La Fabbrica”, organ of the GAS, of which a single issue comes out. In 1947 he participated in the drafting of the Forma 1 manifesto (signed not only by Perilli, but also by Accardi, Attardi, Consagra, Dorazio, Guerrini, Sanfilippo, Turcato) which was published in the first issue of the magazine of the same name. In October of the same year he exhibited at the first exhibition of the Forma 1 group held in the Art Club Gallery: during the same month you hold a conference entitled Del formalism in the Art Club premises. In the following year he collaborated with Sottsass jr in the organization of the first abstract art exhibition in Italy to be held at the Galleria di Roma. Presented by Lionello Venturi, Perilli participates in the 1st International Congress of Art Critics held in Paris (21-28 June 1948), presenting together with Dorazio a report on the situation of 20th century Italian painting. In 1950 he founded, with Dorazio and Guerrini, the “Age d'Or” Library-Gallery; edited by the “Age d'Or” the first technical-informative book of contemporary art Forma 2 is published.
The first and only issue is a “Homage to V. Kandinskij”, with texts by Max Bill, Nina Kandinsky, Enrico Trampolini and others; Perilli's essay is dedicated to Kandinsky's handwriting. On the occasion of the Holy Year, the "Age d'Or" organizes a show of protest: Bertold Brecht's "Galileo Galilei", directed by Vito Pandolci and Perilli as the protagonist in the guise of Urban VIII. The "Age d'Or", in collaboration with the Art Club, also organizes the exhibition of Abstract and Concrete Art in Italy (the first complete review of Italian abstractionism) which is held in February at the National Gallery of Modern Art . The artist, always together with Dorazio and Guerrini, realizes number 4 of the architecture magazine “Spazio”, entirely dedicated to abstract art; Perilli publishes an essay entitled "Forty years of abstract art in Italy". In the same year Lucio Fontana invites the “Age d'Or” to collaborate at the Milan Triennale: Perilli, Dorazio and Guerrini collaborate on two large murals, awarded with a silver medal. In 1957 Perilli exhibited at a personal exhibition set up at the Galleria La Tartaruga, presented by Nello Ponente while, five years later, he had a personal room at the Venice Biennale, where in the catalog he was presented by Umbro Apollonio. In 1963 he took part in the meetings of the “Gruppo 63” in Palermo: he created sets, projections and costumes for the show “Teatro Gruppo 63” at the Scarlatti room in Palermo.
At the same time he exhibits a solo exhibition in New York at the Bonino Gallery. At the beginning of the seventies he exhibited a series of works from 1961 to 1969 in a solo exhibition held at the National Gallery in Prague and exhibited at a series of solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad: at the Marlborough Gallery in Rome, at the Galerie Espace in Amsterdam, at the Frankfurter Westend Galerie in Frankfurt, at the Jacques Baruch Gallery in Chicago with only graphic works. Participate in the International Biennal Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo. In 1979 he organized and created for the municipality of Rome the exhibition The Polish avant-garde 1910-1978 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. In the Eighties Perilli participated in the creation of “Retina”, the artists' magazine, where he published the manifesto Theory of the geometric irrational. A large retrospective exhibition of his, entitled “Achille Perilli, continuum 1947-1982”, is set up at the Palazzo dei Congressi of the Republic of San Marino. Subsequently he exhibited in a retrospective exhibition of the years 1969/1984 at the Paris Center in Paris entitled “Achille Perilli. The geometric irrational ". In the works of the nineties, Perilli's language is further strengthened in a bright, hilarious, lively and brilliant chromatism: the forms develop in a two-dimensional condition, expanding into the space of the canvas and acquiring structures of great elegance and movement. Perilli's works are qualified in an absolutely abstract direction and at the same time articulating themselves chromatically they allow color to argue and help the emergence and expression of the forms themselves.
