Abstract
In this lecture, Agostino Iacurci will present a selection of works that include painting, wall paintings, sculpture, and site-specific installations. His practice often engages with botanical imagery, architecture, and urban contexts, transforming neutral settings into visual gardens where abstraction and nature intersect. From large-scale public commissions to immersive interventions, Iacurci reflects on the relationship between art and its surroundings, creating environments that invite new ways of perceiving space and community. Abstract Gardening explores art as a form of cultivation — an act of reimagining our shared surroundings through images, narratives, and spatial transformation.
This lecture is part of the Cornell in Rome Fall 2025 Lecture Series.
Biography
Agostino Iacurci
Agostino Iacurci (b. 1986) is an Italian visual artist working across painting, wall painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation. Educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he develops projects that interlace cultural history, personal memory, and vernacular storytelling. His work has been presented at GAMeC (Bergamo), Palazzo Bentivoglio (Bologna), PDC Gallery (Los Angeles), Robert Grunenberg (Berlin), and MACRO (Rome). Since 2009, Iacurci has created several public projects in Paris, Frankfurt, Montreal, London, Las Vegas, New Delhi, and Taipei. He has received several awards, including the Premio Ermanno Casoli (2024), the New York Prize (2020–22), and the Cantica21 Prize (2021).
