With Salvatore Cuschera we see the recreation of the blacksmith's technical skill and manual expertise. Each blow of the blacksmith's hammer transfers to the glowing hot iron the force that breaks through all reference to nature and asserts the idea of sculpture as integration of music, architecture and poetry, in a single harmonious context. It does not limit the spirit but begins with the very soul of the material, the most noble and the most neglected. Text in English and Italian.

This complete catalogue documents the work on canvas and the sculptures of Achille Perilli, one of the greatest artists of the second post-war period, master founder of Forma1 (1947-52) - a prestigious group active in Rome in the field of abstract research. The catalogue - which covers Perilli's production from 1945 to 2016, and includes the works documented by contemporary publications - is the result of a meticulous research on the papers kept by the Perilli Archive, in Italian and foreign libraries, as well as exhaustive searching through public and private collections. A...