Achille Perilli * (Rome 1927-2021 Orvieto) Il concetto di liberta, 1959, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, mixed media on canvas, 160 x 180 cm, framed This work is registered in the Archivio Achille Perilli and is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist Provenance: Galleria Spazia, Bologna (label on the reverse) Galleria Volos, Rome European private collection Exhibited: Rome, Novelli, Perilli, Twombly, Scarpitta, Vandercam, Galleria La Tartaruga, July 1959 Bruxelles, Novelli, Perilli, Twombly, Galerie Aujourd’hui – Palais des Beaux-Arts, 14 – 28 November 1959 Mons, Les années ’50 à Rome. Art, Chronique, Culture du Néoréalisme à la Dolce Vita, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 12 October 2003 – 1 February 2004, exh. cat. p. 116 with ill. Darmstadt, Achille Perilli. L’espressività del segno, Institut Mathildenhöhe, 15 May-3 July 2005, exh. cat. p. 52 with ill. Rome, Achille Perilli. Liberi segni, insane geometrie, Auditorium Parco della Musica, 26 October- 3 December 2006, exh. cat. p. 29 with ill. St. Petersburg, Abstract Arte in Italy. Achille Perilli, Ermitage, 18 December 2018 – 28 February 2019, exh. cat. with ill. Literature: G. Appella, Achille Perilli Catalogo Generale dei dipinti e delle sculture 2007-2016, Silvana Editoriale, Cinsello Balsamo, 2019, vol. I, p. 18 and 77, no. 297 with ill. In the work “Il concetto di libertà” [The Concept of Freedom] (1959), the blood stain at the top drips dramatically onto the paste material on which Perilli scratches his signs. Informal monochrome surfaces that soon transform those free, automatic, fast signs scratched into the material, into real narratives, those of his famous "comic strips".