Achille Perilli, a representative of Italian abstractionism, dies

Artist Achille Perilli, one of the most prominent representatives of Italian abstract art, has died at the age of 95, ANSA agency reveals.

Perilli was one of the Form 1 Art Manifesto authors, which aimed to preserve abstract art.

As the Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, noted, with Perilli's death, "the art world has lost a prominent master of Italian abstractionism, an artist of impossible and irrational geometry."

"His work has always reflected a dialogue with the avant-garde and has brought great recognition to 20th-century art," Franceschini said.