Born in 1949 in Milan, Perucchetti was painting and sculpting from a
very early age. Initially taking a job in Milan, he then moved to Rome and
enrolled for classes in theatre studies. Starting to act in film, he worked
with Elizabeth Taylor and Andy Warhol in The
Driver's Seat (1974). More film roles followed, and he
eventually set up a production company. Changing course once again, he
relocated to London and threw himself into architectural and design work
designing unique homes and a car which was invited to show at the The London
Car show in 1992 at Earls court in Kensington.
In 2000,
Perucchetti sold his design and architectural practice and his home so he could
become a full-time artist something he couldn’t postponed any longer. His
first major body of work which was instigated by the medical research of that
time on Cloning, explored the dilemma between Cloning and religion and medical
ethics. Perucchetti decided to use Jelly Babies as a representation of cloned
human beings. This required the use of resin and when Perucchetti discovered
that no company in the world was able to undertake such a project due to its scale which was deemed technically
impossible, he embraced the challenge and after much experimenting and breaking
new grounds with what is physically feasible with that material he developed a
system and designed the machines which would make this possible.
From
that point he became unique in his use of pigmented resin which became a
signature of his work which has been seen in many collections and institutions
worldwide.
Art critic Elspeth
Moncrieff once said of his work ‘Resin has an innate instability and is even
more difficult to control when foreign materials are embedded within it. Like
prehistoric insects captured in the sticky ooze of the amber resin that killed
them while preserving them, Perucchetti entraps his objects for all time. His
work is totally beguiling. It is high-tech, of our time, bright, clean, and
utterly original.'
Asked in early 2009
why he makes art, he explained: 'I wish I could be a politician to govern
fairly, a religious leader to guide pragmatically and a powerful entrepreneur
to serve as an example and inspiration to others, but I can't. However, what I
can do hopefully is create art that makes people think about global issues.'
Perucchetti has taken part in numerous art fairs and in 2011 was invited
to present three monumental works at Rome's first-ever Roma Biennale of outdoor
sculpture, the Rassegna Internazionale di Scultura di Roma.
Perucchetti's unmistakable, multicoloured Jelly Baby Family
representing multicultural society, with its chubby but elegant
translucency, appeared at London's Marble Arch as part of Westminster Council's
City of Sculpture Festival (2010-2011), at the Courchevel Winter Pop Sculpture
Festival (2011-2012), and as a permanent installation in Singapore (both 2012);
during Paris's Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) in October 2012 it was exhibited
against the historic backdrop of The Louvre. On Sky Arts television, it was
selected for the 'Objects of Desire' series (2012) as one of the world's most
coveted items.
Entitled UNICUM, Perucchetti created a body of work which
spanned two decades and was an Abstract interpretation of surfaces which he created
with pigmented resin in its purist form and demonstrated the incredible ability
to express colour, light and form.
Perucchetti has pushed the boundaries as a painter and Sculptor and continues
to explore innovative mediums that he creates like an alchemist. His new
SUPERFCI work is organic, textural and pulsating with energy and colour that
are unique and pioneering once again. Painting is intrinsically related to my emotions and experiences and
SUPERFICI is the result of uncountable scans of the surroundings that my senses
record while being in nature ‘I love Abstract art as it is art in
its purest form' states Perucchetti. 'It is art completely devoid of any
restrictions.'
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