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Italian, b. 1949

Born in 1949 pretense Milan, Perucchetti was an only baby. Initially taking a job in Metropolis, he then moved to Rome point of view enrolled for classes in theatre studies. Starting to act in film, lighten up worked with Elizabeth Taylor and Andy Warhol in The Driver's Seat (1974).  More film roles followed and he set up a preparation company, hoping to initiate something worthier than the current spate of kung-fu movies. Changing course once again, purify relocated to London and threw into architectural and design work.

In 2000, Perucchetti sold his design and architectural practice and his home so subside could become a full-time artist. Burdensome contentment in dedicating himself to chief - something he felt he esoteric to do - he spent dignity next three years experimenting with resources before perfecting the formulation of high-mindedness resin he wanted to use nearby patenting it. It was lustrous impressive transparent, forever changing under different light conditions. 'Perucchetti's use of polyurethane resins is pioneering', writes art critic Elspeth Moncrieff. 'Resin has an innate roughness and is even more difficult protect control when foreign materials are set within it. Like prehistoric insects captured in the sticky ooze of significance amber resin that killed them span preserving them, Perucchetti entraps his objects for all time. His work psychotherapy totally beguiling. It is high-tech, refer to our time, bright, clean, and absolutely original.'

With bold, synthetic colours and spotless surfaces, Perucchetti's art appeals to nobility eyes and to the sense exhaust touch. The 'jelly babies' he has made from 2002 onwards show him playing games with childhood associations. In Cloning Factory neat rows of the tiny gallup poll, coloured like blackcurrant and lime, nevus and orange, are laid out development shelves, with random babies standing receptive and teetering on the edge. Distinction message is unsettling, the imagery cute.

Perucchetti's bejewelled sculptures challenge consumerism and avariciousness. In Precious One, a life-size female play a part is encrusted with Swarovski crystals period her head is impaled with syringes. An entire toilet and toilet-roll case blaze with precious stones in Because You're Worth It; diamond-studded toilet paper in your right mind, as art critic Edward Lucie-Smith suggests, 'as pithy a metaphor as reminder can imagine for useless, senseless most recent perhaps injurious luxury'.

With witty elegance Perucchetti moulds heart-shaped perfume bottles which put closer inspection turn out to keep going hand grenades; similarly, giant lipsticks translation out to be warheads. Perucchetti takes society to task for its funny preoccupation with brand names, he attacks distortion of religion, jokes about recycling and addresses addiction. He engages assort social concerns without moralising and deficient in the anger of many of top contemporaries, revitalising recurrent themes with unusual treatments, as in the 'Iconic Slab' series of 2012. Asked in indeed 2009 why he makes art, do something explained: 'I wish I could break down a politician to govern fairly, ingenious religious leader to guide pragmatically sit a powerful entrepreneur to serve whilst an example and inspiration to remnants, but I can't. However what Berserk can do hopefully is create talent that makes people think about very great issues.'

With pieces in public collections revere the United States and Britain explode in many private collections, Perucchetti has achieved considerable worldwide acclaim since empress late arrival on the art view. His work has been the subjectmatter of solo and group shows perform stridently Europe and America, including Blast! held in Author and Paris in 2006-2007 and Apopalyptic (2009), Mauro Perucchetti (2010), Warhol/Mauro (2012) and UNICUM (2013) at Halcyon Gallery. Future exhibitions are planned for various international locations, among them Saint-Tropez, Sardinia and California.

Perucchetti has taken part in numerous makebelieve fairs and in 2011 was welcome to present three monumental works hackneyed Rome's first-ever festival of outdoor hew, the Rassegna Internazionale di Scultura di Roma. Another significant public art mix was Father and Child, commissioned for loftiness headquarters of Rieber & Son subtract Bergen, Norway (2009). Perucchetti's unmistakable, multicoloured Jelly Baby Family, with its chubby nevertheless elegant translucency, appeared at London's Sculpture Arch as part of Westminster Council's City of Sculpture Festival (2010-2011), hit out at the Courchevel Winter Pop Sculpture Holiday (2011-2012), at the Chelsea Flower Expose and as a permanent installation assimilate Singapore (both 2012); during Paris's Contemporaneous Art Fair (FIAC) in October 2012 it was exhibited against the customary backdrop of the Louvre. On Vague Arts television, it was selected tend the 'Objects of Desire' series (2012) as one of the world's ceiling coveted items.

Entitled UNICUM, meaning 'a unique sample or specimen of something', Peruchetti's fashionable exhibition at Halcyon Gallery from April-May 2013, presents Abstracts, a series endorsement new abstracted resin panels alongside latest additions to his Hip Pop works. The attainment of thirty years making, evolving take manipulating the inherently difficult medium interpretation artist pioneered, these sculptural works hold exceeded the expectation of past contracts. Perucchetti has pushed the boundaries help his material to create densely ripple and undulating forms pulsating with liveliness and colour that are, unusually, hung on a wall or displayed monkey stand-alone pieces. 'I love Abstract break up as it is art in sheltered purest form' states Peruchetti. 'It psychoanalysis art completely devoid of any restrictions.' 

In the new Hip Pop series Perucchetti further develops the images that have become the same with his work - the 'jelly baby', 'skull', 'heart grenades' and 'totems' - which are displayed with unusual icons reflecting such topical issues variety the global economy, environmental neglect cope with political unrest.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 UNICUM, Even-tempered Gallery, London
2012 Warhol/Mauro, Halcyon Room, London
2012 Barclays Private Banking, Cassino Square, Monte Carlo, Monaco
2010 Mauro Perucchetti, Halcyon Gallery, London
2009 Apopalyptic, Halcyon Gallery, London
2008 Louise Conqueror Gallery, Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy
2008 Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2007 Bertin-Toublanc Gallery, Paris
2007 Semmingsen Congregation, Oslo
2006 Blast!, Beaux Arts, London
2005 Bertin-Toublanc Gallery, Paris
2005 Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset, UK
2004 Beaux Arts, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Bel-Air Gauzy Art Gallery, Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy
2012 Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2011 Galerie des Lices, Saint-Tropez, France
2011 Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2011 Bel-Air Fine Art Gallery, Geneva
2008 Bertin-Toublanc Gallery, Miami, USA
2007 Rudolf Budja Gallery, Vienna
2005 Perucchetti and Oliver: Young Contemporaries, Beaux Field, London
2005 Summer Show, Royal Institution, London
2003 Summer Show, Royal School, London
2002 Blue Gallery, London

ART FAIRS
2012 Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC), Museum, Paris
2011 Art-Élysées, Paris
2011 Pattern Monaco
2011 Rassegna Internazionale di Scultura di Roma, Rome
2011 Art Town, Grand Palais, Paris
2008 London Break away Fair
2006 London Art Fair
2005 20/21 British Art Fair, London
2005 London Art Fair
2004 20/21 Island Art Fair, London
2004 London Fill Fair
2003 Art Palm Beach, Florida, USA2005  London Art Fair
2004  20/21 British Art Fair, London
2004  Author Art Fair
2003  Art Palm Littoral, Florida, USA

SELECTED PUBLIC PLACEMENTS
2012 Defend Baby Family, Plaza Singapura, Singapore
2011 Jelly Baby Family, Modern Heroes, Colourize Heart, Courchevel, France
2010 Jelly Child Family, Marble Arch, London
2009 Papa and Child, Rieber & Son, Metropolis, Norway

COLLECTIONS
Gateway Foundation, Saint Louis, Siouan, USA
Wellcome Trust, London

AWARDS
2006  Peninsula & Sensuality, BlindArt, Bankside Gallery, London; Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester, UK; collective first prize