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Created from large sheets of contact paper collaged on the wall, Cucullu’s artworks juxtapose images of progressive, historical figures and events drawn from references such as the Italian-Argentine radical, Severino di Giovanni, the band Led Zeppelin, and the plays of Samuel Beckett alongside those from his personal experience and memories.
The Milwaukee-based Argentinean artist marries biographical details from these largely forgotten lives with places and people recollected from his own, creating composite visual storyboards that mix references to high and low culture, range across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and freely jumble the contemporary with the historical. These large wall drawings are created from contact paper, watercolor and plastics from party goods stores.
Cucullu’s art turns ordinary materials into spectacular constructions filled with content waiting to be unpacked, rewarding an extended kind of looking. His work was recently featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennale, a solo show at the UCLA Hammer Museum and the Minneapolis Walker Arts Center.