Cesare Peverelli Cesare Peverelli (Milan, 1922 – Paris, 2000). He studied at the Brera Academy under Achille Funi. In 1941, he won the Junker Prize. In 1942, he won the Bergamo Prize. In 1944, he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria del Milione. In 1948, he was among the founders of the magazine “Pittura.” He read Freud, Fraser, Lévy-Bruhl, Durkheim, and Lévi-Strauss. In 1950, he painted his first automatically executed works. His collaboration with Crippa and Dova began during these years. In 1951, he was among the signatories of the Spatial Manifesto. In 1954, his marks evoked insect-like creatures. He dedicated a series of these paintings to Dylan Thomas. In 1957, he moved to Paris and joined the Galerie du Dragon. The insects began to transform into characters, cities, bridges, and births. Also in 1957, he held a solo exhibition at the Galerie Alexandre Jolas in New York. In 1960, he participated in the 30th Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition. That same year, his summer stay in Brittany inspired the creation of Les Mouettes (The Seagulls). Beginning in 1963, his friendship with Line and Patrick Waldberg led him to Seillans, which became his primary residence for two years. Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst also settled there, and a friendship developed with them. Between 1963 and 1965, Le crisalidi and I labirinti appeared, and during his stay in New York in 1966, the Campi di vetro took shape. This was followed in the 1970s and 1980s by the series L’atelier de l’artiste, Rituale, Salomé and Tristano e Isotta. In the early 1990s, he devoted himself to ceramics.