PDC Design Gallery - Pacific Design Center

Agostino Iacurci: The Traveling Landscape

On view at the PDC Design Gallery from September 27-January 26, 2024. The exhibition titled “The Travelling Landscape” will feature eighteen works on paper, twelve paintings, one sculpture and two wall paintings. The Traveling Landscape is inspired by Iacurci's fascination with cycloramas, large-scale panoramic paintings that wind around the inside of a cylindrical platform or circular space. The cyclorama is designed to provide visitors with an immersive visual experience. Iacurci transforms the interior of the Pacific Design Center Gallery into a kind of oasis that could be both a dazzling fata morgana and an ominous vision of the near future. In the basement, visitors enter a gloomy zone with a glowing pink neon cactus at the center of a black circular shape. The red walls are covered with pink and orange glowing rhombuses from which hang drawings of potted palms. Iacurci has transformed the upper floor into a viewing platform with palm trees and columns reminiscent of cloisters, monastery courtyards or villas. Large paintings of palms and cacti in flower pots hang between the palm murals, playing with different combinations and sequences of shape and color.

THE TRAVELING LANDSCAPE

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On view from September 27-January 26, 2024

The Traveling Landscape will be on view at the PDC Design Gallery from September 27 -January 26, 2024.

PDC Design Gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday 11:00AM-5:00PM. The gallery is also open by appointment by calling 310.360.6426 or emailing mail@robertgrunenberg.com

PDC parking validation is also offered to Press by calling 310.360.6426 one day in advance.

Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human characteristics to animals, plants, natural forces, and non-human things, takes a dialectical turn in Iacurci's work: not only are plants anthropomorphized, but conversely, humans are morphed into vegetal lifeforms. At the same time, Iacurci's artistic practice sabotages the classical hierarchies between applied art, design, fine art, and folk arts. A reminiscent of the revolutionary, interdisciplinary spirit of the Milanese Memphis Group in the early 1980s, as is the reduction to elementary geometric forms and the search for an iconographic visual language with high recognition value.

-Oliver Koerner von Gustorf, 2023

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The Pacific Design Center Design Gallery is an exhibition space located in the former MOCA building on the PDC campus. PDC Design Gallery is devoted to art and design, engaging internationally renowned artists, celebrated designers, noted curators, professional design organizations and leading academic institutions to draw upon the collective intelligence and creativity of California’s vast design culture, as well as international design invention and innovation.

For further information about the PDC Design Gallery, or to be invited to submit an exhibition proposal, please contact Curatorial Advisor Helen Varola at helenvarola@gmail.com or visit www.helenvarola.com.