A Forma que fala do seu tempo : Achille Perilli no acervo do MAMM

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to investigate the artistic production of Achille Perilli (1927-) to understand the presence and importance of his works in the modern art collection of the poet Murilo Mendes (1901-1975). This art collection now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art Murilo Mendes of Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (MAMM / UFJF).The moderna Art Collection in question, consists on works of several national and international artists, with significant representation of twenty-five Italian artists, among them Achille Perilli, one of the most important protagonists of Italian modern art in the immediate postWorld War II , and founder of Gruppo Forma1 in 1947. Perilli is a Roman artist, researcher of form in space, his poetic stated in absolute abandonment of any reference to the real. His research was oriented to the achievement of the way while a logical-structural or even illogical-structural understanding (terms of the artist), and for him as an act of pure spatiality. The presence of this artist in the collection of Murilo Mendes, allows us to know and reflect on the experiences of concrete art of Italian parentage, and especially the proximity of these experiences with the poetic thought of Murilo Mendes. The poet was born in Juiz de Fora, and lived for eighteen years in Rome where he taught and served as poet, essayist and art critic. He was 56 years old when he moved to Italy permanently, where he lived until the end of his life, even though he died in Portugal. Achille Perilli was a friend of the poet. A friendship that lasted forever.