ACHILLE PERILLI
Achille Perilli was one of the signatories of the Forma group manifesto (1947-48), alongside Accardi, Attardi, Consagra, Dorazio, Guerrini, Sanfilippo, and Turcato, in defense of abstract art. He also contributed to the publication of Forma 1 and Forma 2. In 1949, he joined the MAC (Movimento per l'Arte Concreta – Movement for Concrete Art). Throughout his long exhibition career, Perilli held numerous solo and group exhibitions. Notably, he participated in several editions of the Venice Biennale: in 1952, 1958, 1962, and in 1968 with a personal room. Between 1948 and 1986, he took part in five editions of the Rome Quadriennale. In 1959, he exhibited at the São Paulo Biennial and at Documenta 2 in Kassel. In 1963-64, he participated in Peintures italiennes d’aujourd’hui, an exhibition organized in the Middle East. In the early 1970s, he held a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Prague and planned numerous other solo shows both in Italy and abroad, including at the Marlborough Gallery in Rome, Galerie Espace in Amsterdam, Frankfurter Westend Galerie in Frankfurt, and Jacques Baruch Gallery in Chicago. He also participated in the International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo. A major retrospective titled Achille Perilli, Continuum 1947-1982 was held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in the Republic of San Marino. Later, another retrospective covering the years 1969-1984 took place at the Paris Center in Paris under the title Achille Perilli. L'irrazionale geometrico (The Geometric Irrational). During the 1990s, Perilli’s artistic language further evolved, marked by a vibrant and intense use of color. His forms, developed within a two-dimensional space, expanded across the canvas, achieving structures of great elegance and dynamism. In the 2000s, Perilli continued to work and exhibit in numerous solo and group shows, with his works becoming part of major public and private collections, including the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome), Frankfurter Westend Galerie (Frankfurt), GAM (Turin), MAMAC (Liège), Triennale di Milano, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Mons), Fondazione Marconi (Milan), the Italian Cultural Institutes in New York and Washington D.C., the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, Walter Bischoff Galerie (Berlin), and the Venice Biennale. A highly significant retrospective took place between 2018 and 2019 at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, featuring a selection of 60 works that traced the long career and artistic journey of Achille Perilli.
→ 01 SENZA TITOLO, 2003, mixed technique on canvas, cm 100x100
→ 02 SENZA TITOLO, 1992, inks on paper, cm 29x21
→ 03 SENZA TITOLO, 1992, inks on paper, cm 29x21
→ 04 SENZA TITOLO, 1992, inks on paper, cm 29x21
→ 05 SENZA TITOLO, 1992, inks on paper, cm 29x21
→ 06 SENZA TITOLO, 1992, inks on paper, cm 29x21
→ 07 SENZA TITOLO, 1992, inks on paper, cm 29x21
