Agostino Iacurci (b.1986) is a contemporary visual artist working with painting, murals, sculpture, drawings, and then welcoming space through installations. Originally from Foggia (southern Italy), Agostino’s art practice began at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and then moved to various places, the last being Berlin for six years. Until 2022 he was in New York for a residency at ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program) in Brooklyn. 

Iacurci has worked extensively in the public art context making large murals, alternating them with more traditional studio practice, experimenting with various mediums, and collaborating with other professionals, artisans, and crafters.

Often driven by a site-specific attitude, Iacurci manages heterogeneous materials, constantly manipulating them. By doing this, he generates images in which he willingly recounts cultural history, emotional memories, literary references, and tales.

 

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Exhibitions, Works, and Awards

Iacurci has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions, including; Of my abstract Gardening, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome (2022); Hortus, IIC, Prague (2022); Premio Termoli LXII, MACTE, Termoli (2021); Tracing Vitruvio, Musei Civici, Pesaro (2019); Talent Prize 2019, Mattatoio, Rome (2019); Gypsoteca, M77 Gallery, Milan (2018); Trompe-l’oeil, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City (2017); Urban Art Biennale, Völkinger Hütte, European Centre for Art and Industrial Culture (2017); Cross the streets, MACRO Museum, Rome (2017); 16° Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan (2015). But sure enough, the highlight to his career are the monumental wall paintings and installations for public and private institutions he creates since 2009. Recent commissions include Ludwigs-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (2021); Life is Beautiful, Las Vegas (2021); Principal Place, London (2020); Yakutsk Biennale, Yakutsk (2017); Distrito Tec University, Monterrey (2016); Govind Puri Metro Station, New Delhi (2016); Istituto Mario Penna, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2014); Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei (2012).

He also participated in residency programs such as ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York (2020-2022), and Plop x Cob Residency, London (2021), and has ultimately received The New York Prize, promoted by Mibac, MAE and Italian Academy-Columbia University (2020), and Cantica21, Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere Prize (2021). 

Last but not least, throughout his career, Iacurci has collaborated with international brands and publishers, including Apple, Adidas, Hermès, Herman Miller, La Repubblica, Penguin Books, Starbucks, and The New Yorker.

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Dana Piazza lives and works in Lenox, Massachusetts. He has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Soapbox Arts in Burlington, Vermont, Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, Connecticut, Art Austerlitz in Austerlitz, New York, Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham, New York, and Room 68 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Upcoming shows include a two-person exhibitions with Tamara Zahaykevich at Turley Gallery in Hudson, New York in 2023, and a solo exhibition with Bernay Fine Art in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 2024. His numerous group exhibitions include Flat Files at OyG at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, New York, Concentrated at Galerie Manqué in Brooklyn, New York, Art on Paper with Muriel Guépin Gallery in New York, New York, and Guilty Pleasures at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Dana Piazza received a BFA magna cum laude from the School of Art+Design at Purchase College in 2010.

 

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Work and Technique

Dana Piazza creates abstract paintings and drawings on paper, panel, and canvas, depicting the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His work is purely meticulous as he follows algorithms allowing a predetermined set of instructions to facilitate an unknown outcome. 

The explorations of chance, discovery and time of Dana’s work emerge throughout each series. Also, his drawings imply recognizable patterns or textures that often come with semi-monochromatic color palettes to emphasize his strategic compositions. Unintentional changes in mark-making are inevitable and create distorted images that resemble 3D renderings which optically seem to move. The fallibility of the hand is integral to the development of each composition: one mark leads to the next and the next, resulting in a dense yet unified balance of chaos and control.

 

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Nester Formentera was born in 1991 in the Philippines to then migrate to Dublin, Ireland, with his family. He studied and developed his artistic skills in Dublin, to mainly focus his art on personal feelings inspired by his everyday surroundings.

His style is recognized by  drawings, made out of a Bic pen, graphite, or colored pencils, through a realistic visual language.

A few years ago he wanted to challenge his talent through the special technique of recreating an illusional 3D effect by drawing shapes through minimal lines.

Creative Technique

Nester starts with a sketch of the final shape he wishes to represent, often inspired by a photograph. The final result is an optical illusion just as if the characters were sticking out from the paper.

Nester knows how to confer to his artwork an erotic yet artistic feeling through a unique chosen language.

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