Luigi Pericle. Ad Astra

Carole Haensler, Tobia Bezzola, Andrea Biasca-Caroni , Greta Biasca-Caroni

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English

Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
28 August 2021

Art & design styles: Abstract Expressionism; Individual artists, art monographs

Luigi Pericle (19162001) was a universally interested and gifted personality, a self-taught illustrator and painter, a man of letters, mystic, theosophist, and intellectual whose work and legacy eludes any categorisation. Born in Basel, Switzerland, as Pericle Luigi Giovannetti to a mother of French and a father of Italian origin, he had great success as an illustrator and cartoonist in the 1950s. His cartoons were published worldwide in satirical magazines like Punch, his comic strip Max the Marmot, published in newspapers and books, was hugely popular across Europe, the United States, and in Japan.

In 1958, Giovannetti took a radical turn to painting and ink drawing. Now signing his works as Luigi Pericle, he quickly gained international recognition as an artist and his paintings were exhibited in gallery and museum shows in Britain and Switzerland during the 1960s. Yet recognition was not what he was looking for and he disappeared voluntarily from the art world to lead an increasingly secluded life dedicated entirely to his art and writing. His home Casa San Tomaso on the legendary Monte Verità near Ascona, in southern Switzerland, offered ideal surroundings for an artist so strongly drawn to spirituality and esotericism.

Luigi Pericle - Ad Astra for the first time explores how the spiritual environment and tradition of Monte Verità influenced Pericle as an artist and how Asian calligraphy and Zen Buddhism were influential to his drawing practice. Moreover, the book investigates Pericle's understanding of abstraction in art and his own syncretism of modern esotericism and spirituality.

Text in English, German and Italian.

AUTHOR: The Archivio Luigi Pericle, founded in 2019 by Greta and Andrea Bisaca-Caroni and based in Ascona, Switzerland, houses the estate of Luigi Pericle. Its archive and exhibitions space are open to the public and for research.

SELLING POINTS: .

The first book to explore Swiss artist Luigi Pericle's engagement with the spiritual environment and tradition of Monte Verità and to investigate his understanding of abstraction in art and his own syncretism of modern esotericism and spirituality .

Pericle was a universally interested and gifted personality, self-taught illustrator and painter, man of letters, mystic, theosophist, and intellectual .

Luigi Pericle's fascinating work in painting and drawing has recently been rediscovered and is enjoying increasing interest internationally

253 colour, 4 b/w illustrations

Preface by: Tobia Bezzola
Contributions by: Andrea Biasca-Caroni, Greta Biasca-Caroni, Carole Haensle
Edited by: Carole Haensler
Imprint: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 285mm, Width: 245mm,
Weight: 1.260kg
ISBN: 9783039420223
ISBN 10: 3039420224
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 28 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Carole Haensler is an art historian and director of Museo Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona, Switzerland.