From September 19 to October 18, 2024 Ambrosiana Art Gallery is pleased to present Achille Perilli. Asymmetric Geometries , a retrospective dedicated to the Roman artist.
The exhibition project was born from an idea by Andrea Poleschi and offers a collection of around thirty works created by Perilli starting from the 1980s, with A David rende visita Malevič (1980, mixed media on canvas, 120x120 cm), up to his last years of activity with Il canto del lupo (2016, mixed media on canvas, 81x65 cm).

With this exhibition Ambrosiana Art Gallery aims to analyze peculiar aspects of the artist's expressive language, reading his works from new perspectives. From the relationship between geometric shapes and bright colors, to the asymmetry that never makes his compositions unusual; from the complexity of the world evoked by his thought, to the apparent simplicity of geometric figures that multiply and expand contradicting the structural order and the rational principle.

What is striking with extraordinary freshness in Perilli's geometric cages is the unique quality of his painting: the play between monochromatic backgrounds and the surprising complexity of the abstract configurations, the vivacity of the color combinations with well-defined flat layers, the vibrant harmonies between the various tones of blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, white and black.

In a 1982 text, Perilli summarizes his artistic practice as follows: “Tension in the visual can be realized only when multiple forces in conflict find a way to discharge themselves in a knot. And when this happens, in a concentrated and tense space like the geometric one, then that slippage of forces occurs, that fall of certainties that is my problem.”

 

The project is accompanied by a catalogue with a critical text by Francesco Poli, in which all the works present in the exhibition are reproduced.