Luigi Pericle--Ad Astra

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A new exploration of Swiss artist Luigi Pericle's engagement with the spiritual environment and tradition of Monte Verità, investigating his understanding of abstraction in art alongside his own syncretism of modern esotericism and spirituality. Luigi Pericle (1916-2001) was a rare talent-a self-taught illustrator and painter, a man of letters, mystic, theosophist, and intellectual whose work and legacy eludes any categorization. Under his proper name Pericle Luigi Giovanetti he had great success as an illustrator and cartoonist in the 1950s. His cartoons were published worldwide in daily newspapers, such as the Washington Post or Herald Tribune, as well as 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 Japan. In 1958, he turned to explore abstract expression through...