Piero Guccione and Achille Perilli in Dialogue at Mart Rovereto

The Mart in Rovereto presents 'Piero Guccione e Achille Perilli. Ai confini dell’astrazione', a comparative exhibition curated by Marco Di Capua and Daniela Ferrari, inspired by Vittorio Sgarbi and Lorenzo Zichichi. The show pairs Sicilian figurative painter Piero Guccione (Scicli, 1935 – Modica, 2018) with Roman abstractionist Achille Perilli (Roma, 1937 – Orvieto, 2021), arguing both belong to 'pure abstraction' and share a reaction against postwar realism, exemplified by Renato Guttuso. Guccione's work, focused on the sea's light and stillness, evolves from referential traces in 'Sulla spiaggia di Sampieri' (1967) to the near-abstract 'Il grido della luna' (2000), where color and light dissolve horizon lines. Perilli, a founder of the Marxist group Forma 1 alongside Accardi, Attardi, Consagra, Sanfilippo, and Turcato, developed a geometric, aniconic style using bright, atonal colors and perspective solids, as seen in 'La visione globale' (1973, Mart, Collezione Domenico Talamoni). While both reject figuration, the exhibition's thesis of complementarity is questioned: Guccione's work evokes sublime dissolution, whereas Perilli's maintains rigorous geometric structure. The show runs at Mart Rovereto.