Augusto Perez

(1929 - 2000)

Provenance:
Private collection, Rome

Exhibition: Augusto Perez. Maestri, curated by Aurora Spinosa, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, December 21, 2010 February 15th 2011, exhibition's catalogue edited by Arte'm 2010, Naples

Blindarte kindly thanks Maria Corbi for the help in compiling this catalogue's data

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Augusto Perez made his debut in the Neapolitan collective of young artists in 1951, obtaining the approval of Vasco Pratolini and three years later he presented a group of large plaster sculptures at the Neapolitan gallery "Blu di Prussia". In 1955 he held a personal exhibition in Rome and the following year he participated in the XXVIII Venice Biennale. His works have also been exhibited in various European institutions such as the Gallery of Modern Art in Paris, the Rodin Museum, the Antwerp Biennial and the Tunnard Gallery in London.

"I believe that artists always work on the boundary between the visible and the invisible. It is inevitable, all great works contain something mysterious"

(Taken from in A. Fiz, exhibition catalogue "Augusto Perez e il delirio del presente", Turin 2000)