MACHAS

Hortus: Agostino Iacurci’s first terracotta sculpture

Pushing his artistic practice further by exploring new materials and techniques, Machas Artist Agostino Iacurci signs a new sculpture entitled Hortus - an impressive, contemporary and geometric fountain drawing inspiration from the myth of Paradise.

The sculpture, now showing at the baroque chapel of the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague, is composed of a glazed Impruneta terracotta fountain, circled by a structure of seven steel and neon rings reminiscent of Dante’s seven circles of heaven.

The artwork project echoes of the mythological fountain of youth, represented in the Renaissance miniature “The Garden of Love or Hortus with Fountain of Youth” from the codex De Sphaera.

Selected as part of the Italian Cultural Institutes’ Cantica21 project in Prague, the artwork has been acquired by the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato.

See more of Agostino Iacurci’s work here.