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The Year To Come: Agostino Iacurci x La Repubblica

With 2020 putting our resilience to the test and possibly challenging the very notion of progress, what can we expect from 2021? Agostino Iacurci was invited by Italian newspaper La Repubblica to take a fresh and unbiased look on the 365 days laying ahead of us.

To illustrate the 48 pages of forecasts and ideas on the year to come, aptly titled L’Anno Che Verrà (The Year To Come), Agostino has created yet another striking visual story that perfectly captures what the future feels like: an unpredictable journey into the unknown.

Featuring Agostino’s surreal and poetic signature style, the artworks charge the accompanying texts with an additional layer of meaning, without being too descriptive.

“L’Anno Che Verrà is a supplement with the first newspaper of the year,” explains Agostino, “and it features articles from some of the most important writers that collaborate with La Repubblica - I am very pleased with the result.”

The ten artworks, used on the cover and throughout the issue, present a consistent visual language of shapes, colour palette and symbols. One of the most recurrent elements is the eye, and it seems to ask the viewer “how’s your year going to be?”

See more of Agostino’s work here.