The characters of Agostino Iacurci

Currently active in Rome and Nuremberg, Italian artist Agostino Iacurci enjoys playing with flat shapes, intense colors and open titles, always careful to the context and architectural details of spaces for his future murals, to the silent stories of his characters and the softly curbed lines of his drawings.

Wandering without any clear direction on their bikes, climbing imaginary stairs or swimming in infinite oceans, the characters lack any gesture which could have exposed a feeling, a thought or belief, and calmly seem to accept the sometimes strange situations they are faced with.

Water is a predominant motif, as well as other natural elements, harmoniously intersecting with human figures or even becoming part of them. Isolation opposes unity, absurd happenings leave the characters in a mute dialogue and in front of this whimsically constructed imagery the viewer is left to question his own place in his limited or endless reality.