Perilli Perilli transforms his psychological states into highly structured and aesthetically powerful visual expressions by translating the images that inhabit his mind with rapid, thick brushstrokes, the result of an expressive urgency that leads him to bypass the rational mechanisms of the intellect and venture into his own poetic dimension.

Featuring by a purely symbolic language (made up of animals, masks, double heads, small rituals, and games), his images are often dreamlike and express a strong imaginative and psychological dimension. What transpires from them is an irreverent and romantic attitude hidden behind a gaze that is both curious and distrustful. 

Perilli is a visionary artist able to express his interior world by intertwining contemporary reality and popular traditions, characters from ancient mythology and urban life. Nothing is posed: the figures seem to launch themselves beyond the surface, the canvas is rough and wrinkled, the backgrounds violent and tender, the faces tormented. The manner is surrealist but also fairy-tale-like, and in fairy tales, as linguist Vladimir Propp teaches us, the same characters perform multiple functions within the same story, and this is how fiction and reality overlap and the seemingly immobile narrative never ends.

Perilli, thus, presents us with a world that is unknown yet familiar, new but resembling an old memory, demonstrating that the greatest potential of narrative construction is not only to be able to relive through it but above all to make everything more real.