(born in Rome in 1927)
‘La piccolo colonna d’Ercole’, sculpture, titled, signed and dated perilli 66, mixed media, wood, hight 90 cm, on black metal pedestal, (PP)

Photo certificate:
Achille Perilli, Orvieto 22 September 2006

Provenance:
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome (with label)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Prague, Narodni Galerie, Achille Perilli prace z let 1961–1969, 1970, exh.-cat. no. 39
San Marino, Palazzo dei Congressi, Continuum 1947–82, 1982, page 10
Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, Forma 1 1947–87, 1987–88, exh.-cat. no. 129
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Achille Perilli opere dal 1947 ad oggi, 1988, page 101, exh. cat. no. 6 with ill.
Milan, Galleria Tega, Achille Perilli, 1998, exh.-cat. no. 3 with ill Francati, Scuderie per l’Arte, Achille Perilli, La Stravaganza della Scultura, page 27 with ill.

Illustrated in:
Klaus Wolbert, Achille Perilli, Die Expressivität des Zeichnens (The expressivity of Drawing), Darmstadt, page 210

Published in:
F. Vincitorio, Achille Perilli a San Marino, in ‘Le Arti News’, December 1982 - January 1983

At the beginning of the 1960s my artistic discourse drew inspiration mainly from ‘Comics’.
For about a decade, I worked under the influence of that technique, painting a series of two-dimensional pictures, until the moment when I realised that I could turn them into sculptures, by using a wooden framework that was able to ‘absorb’ those very images into a three-dimensional work: I called them ‘The Columns’.
Achille Perilli for Dorotheum