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Tullio Pericoli (Colli del Tronto, 2 October 1936) is an Italian painter and draftsman.
Tullio Pericoli was born in Colli del Tronto, a small village in the Piceno hills, in 1936. Since he was a child he has been designing and soon starting to collaborate with local newspapers. Following his father's wishes, he enrolled in the Faculty of Jurisprudence of Urbino but, with few exams since graduation, he interrupted his studies for fear of a career that he did not hear. In 1961, driven by Cesare Zavattini, he moved to Milan, where he still lives, thus finding himself in the center of the cultural ferment of those years.
Start there to collaborate with the newspaper Il Giorno with drawings that accompany tales by Calvino, Primo Levi, Gadda, Soldati. An activity that continues in the following years: his drawings will appear in the most important Italian and foreign newspapers, such as the New Yorker, the Frankfurter Allgemeine, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, El Pais and others. In 1984 he arrives at La Repubblica with which he also collaborates today. His portraits - above all of cultural figures - become the object of numerous volumes and exhibitions held in Italy and abroad.
At the same time his pictorial research, which had started in the early 1970s with the series of "geologies", continues with a cycle of works that will lead, in 1980, to the Rubare a Klee exhibition at the Il Milione Gallery in Milan. The landscape becomes more and more central in his work: in 1984 the volume Robinson Crusoe for Olivetti marks a turning point and the drawings that compose it will be exhibited for the first time at the Pac in Milan.
In 1987, commissioned by Livio Garzanti, he created, in the historic location in via della Spiga in Milan, a mural that tells the life of his publishing house and in 1991 Milan dedicated an important exhibition to him at the Palazzo Reale.
The landscapes of his homeland are the backdrop to the scenes and costumes of Donizetti's Elisir d’Amore, which he totally reinvents for the Zurich Opera House in 1995 and 1998 for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In 2002 he created the sets and costumes for Rossini's Il Turco in Italia again for the Zurich Opera House.
In the last two decades his activity has focused more and more on landscape painting witnessed by public exhibitions at Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa (Nature, 2002), at the Contemporary Art Gallery "Osvaldo Licini" in Ascoli Piceno (Sedendo and Mirando, 2009 ), at Palazzo Fava in Bologna and at Palazzo Ducale in Urbino (Sulla Terra, 2015), at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo (Frammenti di Paesaggio, 2016) as well as various other exhibitions at major private galleries.
In 2010 a large exhibition at the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome entitled Lineamenti, proposes a pictorial synthesis of its two main forms of expression, landscape and portrait, comparing them and suggesting the possibility of a univocal reading method. In 2013, the anthology volume I landscapes comes out for Adelphi. A part of the works contained in the volume constitute an exhibition hosted by the MART in Rovereto the following year. Also in 2014 another exhibition dedicated to the Garda area, entitled Areonatura, was inaugurated at the MAG Museum of the Alto Garda, in Riva del Garda.
In 2011 Silvia Ballestra writes, published by Rizzoli, Le colline di fronte, a biographical novel about Pericoli's life and his artistic career.
In 2014, he received the special Passaggi d´Arte Award assigned to him by Passaggi Festival