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This important book presents the work of the fascinating and
singular artist Luigi Pericle (1916–2001). Pericle was a painter,
illustrator and scholar, as well as a leading figure in the story
of art in the second half of the twentieth century. The artist
initially found fame as an illustrator, gaining widespread renown
in the 1950s as the inventor of the character Max the Marmot. But
his intense, enigmatic and multi-layered paintings increasingly
drew the attention of the art world, with works that reflect his
personal, metaphysical take on post-war abstraction exhibited at
numerous venues in Britain during the 1960s. Pericle then abruptly
retreated from the art system, and for the rest of his life
continued to paint, write and to study esoteric philosophy in the
secluded house he shared with his wife Orsolina on Monte Verit
in the Ticino region of Switzerland. The artist’s work was
dramatically rediscovered in 2016 when the contents of his former
residence were revealed. The process of restoring, cataloguing and
researching his vast oeuvre is ongoing, and is overseen by
Ascona’s Archivio Luigi Pericle, with which the exhibition has
been organised. This beautifully illustrated publication, which
accompanies an exhibition at the Estorick Collection, London,
includes a full catalogue of the works, as well as essays by noted
scholars.
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