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Achille Perilli was born in Rome in 1927. He is known for his compositions resembling irregular and unlikely projections on a plane of parallelepipeds. Use it vigorously color, with a twist inaccuracy to the advantage ofexpressiveness. After classical high school he graduated in Literature with a thesis on metaphysical painting by Giorgio de Chirico.
With Dorazio, Guerrini, Vespignani, Tumblers, Muccini, Maffioletti, founds the Social Art Group (GAS) and collaborates in the creation of the magazines Ariel e The factory. In 1947 he took part in the drafting of the manifesto Form 1, signed by Accardi, Attardi, Consagra, Dorazio, Guerrini, Sanfilippo, Turcato.
In 1948, together with Dorazio, he presented a report in Paris on the situation of Italian painting of the 20th century at I International Congress of Art Critics. He founded, with Dorazio and Guerrini, the Bookshop-Gallery Age d'Or which publishes the first contemporary art notebook Form 2 with a tribute to Kandinsky. Lucio Fontana invites the Age d'Or to collaborate with the Milan Triennial: Perilli, Dorazio and Guerrini created two large mural paintings, awarded with a silver medal.
In the eighties, in the magazine Retina, publishes the manifesto Theory of the geometric irrational and in the nineties he strengthened the language with bright chromaticism and two-dimensional shapes that acquired elegance and movement. In the 2000s he continued to work and exhibit in numerous collective and personal exhibitions.
