Achille Perilli (1927-2021) - Senza titolo

PROVENIENZA

The work comes from the furnishings of the historic Venetian hotel Bonvecchiati, founded in the 1950s, whose paintings were part of the Deana collection. The founder of the hotel was the Venetian entrepreneur and collector Arturo Deana, a longtime cultural promoter of the city, who in 1929 purchased the then-famous restaurant "La Colomba,” with among the patrons names such as Tosi, Morandi, De Pisis, Chagall, Kokoschka and Picasso.

These were wonderful years for art in Venice, thanks also to the presence of Peggy Guggenheim. Arturo Deana grew increasingly passionate about painting, also thanks to the great friendship with poet Diego Valeri and with gallerist Carlo Cardazzo, founder and proprietor from 1942 of the Galleria del Cavallino, a historic Venetian gallery among the most renowned in Italy in the second half of the 20th century.

Deana’s passion for art led him to valorize the Bonvecchiati hotel with part of his private collection, and to found in 1946 the "Premio di Pittura La Colomba" after the interruption for war of the Venice Biennale. The event’s success was such that it was nicknamed the "Little Biennale." In 1953 the "Concorso internazionale per un menù alla Colomba" was created, in which the first edition saw 300 artists participate.

Autore

Achille Perilli (Rome, January 28, 1927 – Orvieto, October 16, 2021) was an Italian painter, among the most authoritative figures of Italian abstraction in the twentieth century.

He attended the classical high school and in 1945 enrolled in the Faculty of Letters and prepared a thesis on Giorgio de Chirico, though he did not graduate. He was cofounder, with Attardi, Consagra, Dorazio, Guerrini, Accardi, Sanfilippo and Turcato, of the avant-garde movement called Gruppo Forma with Marxist inspiration.

He exhibited in numerous solo and collective shows, including participations in the Venice International Art Exhibition of 1952, 1958 and in 1962 and 1968 with a personal room. From 1948 to 1986 he took part in five editions of the Rome Quadriennale. Winner of the XI Lissone Painting Prize in 1959. In 1963–64 he exhibited at the show Peintures italiennes d'aujourd'hui, organized in the Middle East and North Africa. For his work he became a member of the National Academy of San Luca in 1995 and received the President of the Republic prize in 1997.

He founded, together with Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Renzo Vespignani, Buratti, Muccini and Maffioletti, the Gruppo Arte Sociale (GAS). Together with Dorazio and Guerrini he founded the bookshop-gallery "Age d’Or" through which he became organizer of artistic events such as the collaboration with the Milan Triennale invited by Lucio Fontana.

His stylistic signature has been the constant search for the use and combination of geometric shapes and bright colors, pursued throughout his life, exploring the forms of abstraction even within a coherent stylistic line.

Descrizione

mixed media on paper in excellent condition; from the photos you can see some reflections on the glass but the sheet is intact, dimensions 32x5x27 cm for the artwork alone, 50x43 cm with the frame as a courtesy.

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