Agostino Iacurci

Agostino Iacurci

Italy

Through his work with synthetic forms and bright colors, by means of an essential language, Agostino Iacurci is able to manage multiple layers of interpretation. This approach sets his tales on the perennial threshold between innocence and artifice, serenity and catastrophe; on a magnetic tension that is the interpretative key to our very existence. His recurrent themes include self-perception, uncertainty, imagination, and play. Conceptually, his work leans towards mechanisms of irony, a play of contrasts that occur with opposites.

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The artist believes in the use of childlike language to narrate light subjects as well as catastrophic ones. His work has a cynical and critical vision of reality —pessimistic at times— setting the stage for drama and at the same time sublimating it, alleviating it. Iacurci’s work challenges the limits of sinuosity by presenting an image that seems familiar and innocent but is, fundamentally, malicious. And in that uncertainty lays its richness, a half-open door that leads to other interpretations.

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Agostino Iacurci’s work has been exhibited at the MACRO Museum in Rome, Italy; the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, USA; the Media Library of Orly in France and the Biennial of Urban Art in Moscow, Russia. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

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2016 | Long story short | Die Kunstagentin, Cologne, Germany

2015 | Appearance and Disappearance | Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milano, Italy

2015 | Wooden Plants | Wunderkammen at YIA Fair, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

2015 | Selected works | Wunderkammern at Scope Fair, Basel, Switzerland

2014 | Match mismatch. Curated by Terri Lew | 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast, Australia

2014 | Small Wheel Big Wheel. Curated by Giuseppe Pizzuto | Wunderkammern Gallery, Rome, Italy

2012 | Tende a zero. Curated by Christian Omodeo | Palladium Theater, Rome, Italy

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