Giant Cacti and Scheming Kitties Take Over the Buildings of Cities Around the World

It’s been years since I post­ed the work of a mural­ist, so let’s change that now with the giant paint­ings of Agosti­no Iacur­ci. His works fea­ture bold por­traits and still lifes that con­form to the sides of tall build­ings. Hap­py plants, schem­ing kit­ties, and pre­car­i­ous stacks of ves­sels are just some of his cho­sen sub­jects. Their bright col­ors and sim­pli­fied shapes are imme­di­ate­ly eye-catch­ing among the hus­tle and bus­tle of urban areas.

Agosti­no crafts his mur­al paint­ings so that there’s more than meets the eye; they ben­e­fit from care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion. “He uses an essen­tial lan­guage to dri­ve mul­ti­ple lay­ers of inter­pre­ta­tion,” his web­site states. “This approach places his tales on the thresh­old between inno­cence and arti­fice, seren­i­ty and cat­a­stro­phe.” If you see one of his murals every day, this inten­tion affords you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to cre­ate your own expla­na­tions for who his sub­jects are and why they relate to one anoth­er in such a way. (h/t: Art is A Way)

Agostino Iacurci creates giant mural paintings that look deceptively simple but encourage you to decide their meaning.