Breakfast On the Grass: Agostino Iacurci’s installation at “A Room of its own” in Rome


Breakfast On the Grass: Agostino Iacurci’s installation at “A Room of its own” in Rome


Breakfast On the Grass: Agostino Iacurci’s installation at “A Room of its own” in Rome


Breakfast On the Grass: Agostino Iacurci’s installation at “A Room of its own” in Rome


Breakfast On the Grass: Agostino Iacurci’s installation at “A Room of its own” in Rome


Breakfast On the Grass: Agostino Iacurci’s installation at “A Room of its own” in Rome


Breakfast On the Grass: Agostino Iacurci’s installation at “A Room of its own” in Rome

With his new installation “Breakfast on the Grass”, Agostino Iacurci’s latest gallery show takes us to his native Puglia and invites us to sit at the large table of his childhood home in the Southern Italian countryside.

As a truly multidisciplinary artist, Agostino always experiments with different mediums and spaces, emphasising the spatial nature of his art. It is no coincidence that he was invited by Galli Design Shipyard and Maxxi’s curator Domitilla Dardi to explore the theme “Desired Guests” for the 2019 edition of “Room of its own”.

The project, which is now at its seventh edition, has seen each year one artist, designer or architect taking over the exhibition space in Via Pacinotti in Rome.

The theme of hospitality has historically multiple meanings, varying from culture to culture; in recent years, however, has taken on a value that refers to openness, to knowledge, to sharing as growth. The room opens to the “desired guests”, and each invitation can be the opportunity to discover new mental territories.

“When I was invited to imagine a room on the theme “Desired guests”, I could not help but think about the big and joyful tables of my childhood, often laid out in the countryside during family celebrations,” explains Agostino. “One of my fondest memories was making the passata from scratch. So I imagined a table among the tomatoes, a plant very dear to me and with an emblematic story.”

“I come from a family where the dinner table is the centre of social life, the place where we spend most of our time together, and where we exchange affections in the form of dishes”, he further explains. “When people of my town want to call out an excess of confidence of an interlocutor, they ask: “Have we ever eaten together?”, as if to say that sharing a meal is a minimum requirement of knowledge.”

Referencing Manet’s famous painting “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe”, Agostino created an immersive installation entitled “Breakfast on the Grass”, a physical gateway where memories and new connections come to life.

See more of Agostino’s work here.



 

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