Pier Paolo Perilli's dreamlike paintings at Galleria Eugenia Delfini, Rome

The exhibition 'I quadrucci' at Galleria Eugenia Delfini in Rome presents a new cycle of medium-format paintings by self-taught artist Pier Paolo Perilli (Rome, 1974). Perilli's work, which spans painting and writing, creates an open narrative device where each canvas acts as a threshold rather than a finished image. His paintings are populated by hybrid figures, animals, masks, and double characters that evoke a private mythology and a sense of uneasy familiarity. The brushwork is rapid, dense, and emotional, with color used expressively to create unstable backgrounds. Perilli is also a poet and former frontman of the hardcore punk band Redemption in the 1990s; his narrative approach structures his painting from within. The exhibition oscillates between fairy tale and surrealism without indulging in decorative fantasy, maintaining a constant openness in narrative. The show confirms Perilli as an autonomous voice in contemporary art, restoring a narrative and existential function to painting without yielding to abstract conceptualism or reassuring figuration. The text is by Luca Vona.