In Pesaro, young Agostino Iacurci offers a dreamlike journey through the pages of Vitruvius' De Architectura

From July 13 to October 13, 2019 at Palazzo Mosca - Musei Civici, an articulated site-specific project conceived for Pesaro by Agostino Iacurci (Foggia, 1986), an artist best known for his monumental wall paintings created in public space. His highly scenographic three-dimensional and pictorial works create a dimension that accompanies the presentation of ten different editions of Vitruvius’ De Architectura (c. 80 B.C.-15 B.C.) from the Oliveriana Library. Two threads guide the path, entitled Tracing Vitruvius. Oneiric journey through the pages of De Architectura: an exquisitely philological one to analyze the critical and editorial fortune of the Vitruvian text amply documented in the Oliverian collections. Ten editions are brought together at the Civic Museums in chronological order, each open on one of the ten books of which the work is composed, so as to offer a complete overview. The other thread, freer and more visionary, is the one created by Iacurci, through a research very close to the themes of antiquity and the study of the use of color in architecture and plastic arts of the classical age.

The event is promoted by the City of Pesaro/Assessorato alla Bellezza with Ente Olivieri-Biblioteca e Musei Oliveriani, curated by Marcello Smarrelli and scientific advice by Brunella Paolini, in collaboration with M77 Gallery(Milan).

The exhibition is part of the cycle Exhibitions for Leonardo and for Raphael in Pesaro, Fano and Urbino, a project fielded by the three municipalities as part of the celebrations called by the MIBAC for the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in 2019 and of Raphael Sanzio in 2020, and realized with the support of the respective national committees, the contribution of the Marche Region and the organization of Sistema Museo.

The choice to treat Marcus Vitruvius Pollione comes in continuity with Fano, which celebrates Leonardo Da Vinci through the sheets of the Atlantic Codex in which Vitruvius, a figure to whom, according to tradition, the city is said to have been the birthplace, is mentioned several times.

For all information you can call +39 0721 387 541, send an email to pesaro@sistemamuseo.it or visit the official website of Exhibitions for Leonardo and Raphael.

Source: press release

In Pesaro, young Agostino Iacurci offers a dreamlike journey through the pages of Vitruvius' De Architectura

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