Achille Perilli, master of abstractionism, passes away at age 94

Master of Italian abstractionism Achille Perilli has died at the age of 94; the artist passed away yesterday, Oct. 16, at Orvieto’s Santa Maria della Stella Hospital.

Born in Rome in 1927, Perilli founded with Piero Dorazio, Giovanni Guerrini, Renzo Vespignani and other artists the Gruppo Arte Sociale (Gas) and contributed to the birth of the magazines Ariele and La Fabbrica. In 1947 he participated in the drafting of the Forma 1 manifesto aimed at the defense of abstract art: the manifesto was also signed by Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Piero Consagra, Dorazio, Guerrini, Antonio Sanfilippo, and Giulio Turcato. He later joined the Movement for Concrete Art; from 1957 to 1960 he directed the magazine L’esperienza moderna together with Gastone Novelli, and in 1964 he founded the magazine Grammatica. In 1982 he published the manifesto Theory of the Geometric Irrational.

At the beginning of his artistic career he made abstract compositions with graphic-narrative sequences, then from the 1970s he began to make machineries based on mutant structures. His style has always recalled geometric plane figures that are, however, perceived as irregular and abstract figures in a non-real space, painted in bright and vivid colors.

He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1952, 1958, 1962 and in 1968 with a solo exhibition, and from 1948 to 1986 he participated in the Quadriennale in Rome.

Achille Perilli, master of abstractionism, passes away at age 94

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