All City Canvas
All City Canvas
All City Canvas is a platform that gathers the best urban artists, designers and illustrators around the world to create high impact artistic collaborations. In 2013, All City Canvas launched a series of urban interventions in different cities around the world (ACC Global Series). Mural No. 12 - Artist: Agostino Iacurci - Place: Atlanta - Year: 2015
WALTER by Agostino Iacurci
Italian street artist Agostino Iacurci recently teamed up with All City Canvas to support the children of Camp Best Friends summer program in Atlanta. In a workshop hosted by Iacurci, the children created imaginary portraits that were later put together to compose a large 150ft mural in the Ben Hill neighborhood. Titled “Wallter”, this collective piece took the artist almost nine days to complete.
The process (2015/2015) by Agostino IacurciAll City Canvas
The process (2015/2015) by Agostino IacurciAll City Canvas
The neighborhood (2015/2015) by Agostino IacurciAll City Canvas
Finished mural (2015/2015) by Agostino IacurciAll City Canvas
Detail 2 (2015/2015) by Agostino IacurciAll City Canvas
Detail 1 (2015/2015) by Agostino IacurciAll City Canvas
Agostino Iacurci: artist and illusionist
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.
Challenging the limits of sinuosity
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.
All City Canvas presents W A L T E R by Agostino Iacurci (2015/2015) by Victor CelayaAll City Canvas
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