{"id":6141,"date":"2018-04-24T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marottaeditori.com\/perilli-padre-astrazione-italiana\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T10:50:30","slug":"perilli-father-italian-abstraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/perilli-father-italian-abstraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Achille Perilli, the father of Italian abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Achille Perilli, born in Rome in 1927, is one of the best men of geometrical abstractism in Italy. Extremely active, he has animated the cultural scene of the country by means of numerous and multifaceted initiatives.<\/p>\n

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In the late post-war period, the art in Italy is exclusively figurative. The discussion around figuration and abstraction only begins when\u00a0Achille Perilli<\/strong>,\u00a0along with\u00a0Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Carla Accardi, Antonio Sanfilippo<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Giulio Turcato<\/strong>, found the group\u00a0Forma 1<\/strong>. Its manifesto explains better the point: We don’t really care about the lemon but its shape<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The Forma 1 group, source:\u00a0\u00a0wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Basically, the signers of the manifesto go for a non figurative nor referential art which is not linked to real shapes or\u00a0 nature. Perilli’s involvement is not just\u00a0 limited to the artistic research, but streches towards publishing. Magazines such as\u00a0Forma 1, Forma 2\u00a0and\u00a0L’esperienza moderna<\/em><\/strong> (with\u00a0Gastone Novelli<\/strong>) through which he promotes the revival of the\u00a0dada<\/strong> and surrealist<\/strong>\u00a0movements. His commitment reaches its best in the 90’s, with the\u00a0Librericciuola<\/strong> collection,\u00a0composed of quotes by poets, writers, photographers, musicians, architects and gathered into volumes ilustrated with his engravings.<\/p>\n

Other than the\u00a0Gruppo Forma<\/strong>, which breaks up in 1953, Perilli enrolls in\u00a0 the\u00a0Gruppo Arte Sociale (GAS)\u00a0in in\u00a0MAC Movimento per l’Arte Concreta<\/strong> (1964),\u00a0 and\u00a0Gruppo Altro<\/strong> (1972), publishing the\u00a0Manifesto of the Foul Image in the Imaginary Space <\/strong>(1971) and that one of the\u00a0Theory of the geometric irrational <\/strong>(1982). Simultaneously he founds the library – gallery\u00a0L\u2019Age d\u2019Or\u00a0<\/strong>together with Dorazio and Guerrini (1950). They also dedicate to theater curating some setting ups like for the\u00a0Mutazioni<\/strong> ballet\u00a0\u00a0at La\u00a0Scala in Milan.<\/p>\n

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The<\/u> rocks of the ancient wisdom 1957. Source: settemuse<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the years, he has built strong relationships with literates, men of theater, musicians and poets. In 2017 his Catalogo Generale<\/strong> comes out curated by Giuseppe Appella<\/strong>, who gathered the works produced between 1946 and 2016.<\/p>\n

Formerly, Achille Perilli takes on his artistic research with abstract compositions made of narrative-graphic sequences. The so called\u00a0graffiti<\/em> and\u00a0comics<\/em>,\u00a0therefore dedicating himself to\u00a0insane<\/em> geometries. But from the 70’s onwards he will put effort into\u00a0Machinerie<\/em>,\u00a0as in, imaginery geometic structures not liked to the euclidean ones, filled with colorful and bright colors.<\/p>\n

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Devil’s tail, 2003 – Source:\u00a0settemuse<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Numerous the incursions into sculpture, in the le ’60s with\u00a0Colonne, and therefore with Distorti,\u00a0Bianchi\u00a0and\u00a0Ceramiche, in which he tries to unify the research of abstraction to the relationship with nature.<\/p>\n

In the ’90s onwards, Achille Perilli will dedicate to\u00a0Alberi, sculptures made out of\u00a0 tronchi and dry radici secchi, upon which working with colors and engraves.<\/p>\n

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He takes part in the Biennale of Venice in 1962 and in 1968. Throughout his artistic carrier, he exhibits both in Italy and abroad becoming quite famous.<\/p>\n

For Bolaffi he made\u00a0Spades<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0Playing Cards series.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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