By Marco Tagliafierro

Texan-born artist Aaron Curry likes to keep his inspiration close to home - Los Angeles, the land of Hollywood. His recent solo show, “Bad Dimension”, curated by Alessandro Rabottini at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC) in Bergamo, Italy, investigated the accumulation of images and visual information that neatly characterizes L.A.’s artistic tradition, particularly when thinking of artists such as Hawkins, Baldessari, Jackson, McCarthy and Rhodes. In their diversity, they have contributed to identifying California art as one that is emphatic and exciting.

Aaron Curry’s sculptures and collages are the result of a collision between the avant-garde and pop culture. His work maintains a continual osmosis between the warmth of natural materials and the artificial slickness of industrial colours, moving between tribal art and the world of consumption. And osmosis it is, because Curry’s art is an art of movement.

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All images: Aaron Curry - Bad Dimension, 2009
Exhibition view at GAMeC

Courtesy the artist, Michael Werner Gallery, New York and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.

Photo: Jacopo Menzani