Tullio Pericoli. Dipinti per Torrecchia

A monograph devoted to Tullio Pericoli one of the most original painters and cartoonists of our time, and the three oil paintings commissioned by Carlo Caracciolo for his villa at Torrecchia di Latina.
Painted between autumn 2001 and summer 2002, for the most part on location, these paintings stand as the culmination of this artist's most recent creative period, over the last years he has returned to painting combining his old confidence with fresh research, though he has not neglected his activities in the filed of cartoons. The precise lenticular topography of the landscapes depicted, yet completely re-established within his formal cipher, cover vast canvasses where uniqueness is further stressed by virtue of being born out of disaccustomed commission, which Pericoli, not for the first time, approaches with the joy of an time honoured craftsman.
Alongside the three paintings for Torrecchia, the volume published for the exposition in Rome presents the drawings and preparatory studies (in pencil, pastel or watercolour on paper) underlining the long laboratory study undertaken for this project. These are exhibited together with a series of recent small canvasses thematically and methodically linked to the large paintings.
This is a complete experience of a modern artist, in this case the key figure in a project that stems from an old way of conceiving and creating a work of art based of the classic principal of commission and patronage.

Tullio Pericoli was born in Colli del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno) in 1936. Since 1961 he has lived in Milan where he has made his mark as a painter and cartoonist. From the early 70s he began his collaboration with the magazine Linus, Corriere della Sera (since 1974) and with the weekly magazine L'Espresso. In the meantime he exhibited his works in Milan, Parma, Urbino and at the Olivetti establishments in Ivrea. Since then he has alternated his activities at international galleries and prestigious public expositional spaces with his collaborations with publishers (among these are Einaudi, Rizzoli and Prestel in Munich), important international magazines (Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker) and the theatre as a director, stage designer and costume designer. His most recent output is to be found in the volumes entitled Terre (Rizzoli, 2000), a selection of drawings and paintings on the theme of the landscape and I ritratti (Adelphi, 2002), a collection of 577 portraits of personalities especially from the world of international literature. At present he lives and works in Milan.