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Newsvine: Interview with Adamo Macri

artsforum — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:18:54 +0000

Adamo Macri Interview

Adamo Macri: Clandestine

artsforum — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:17:12 +0000

Adamo Macri’s latest project Clandestine features French model Francois Sagat in a four piece photographic series. The work is numerically titled Clandestine 0, 1, 2, 8. French native Sagat is a model and works in the adult film industry, best known for his muscular physique and his distinctive scalp tattoo. A web link to the work is available through Macri’s news blog. Adamo Macri News Blog

Adamo Macri: Clandestine

Arts News Canada: Adamo Macri

artsforum — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:56:44 +0000

Arts News Canada is the online meeting place for Canada’s arts community, with news, commentary, and thoughtful insight on our industry.

Friday, March 14, 2008. Featured Artist. Adamo Macri, Montreal (Quebec).

Exuviae (photographic installation)

Arts News Canada

Adamo Macri: The Last Supper & Celebrity Inmates on Death Row

artsforum — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:42:57 +0000

Macri is ready to take your “order”. ANTIPASTO (Tribute to Andy Warhol for Little Electric Chair 1964). Antipasto is Adamo Macri’s ambitious art project consisting of photographic pieces, performance and sculptural work. The photographic segment will be composed of celebrity portraits which will be generated by their individual reply to a question.
The question: “If you were an institutionalized prisoner on death row and granted any meal of your choice, what would your last supper be?” The reply is referred to as the order. Macri’s objective here is exploiting a different approach to the practice of portraiture. The depiction of an individual’s physicality does not form the visual, rather the image is derived by their most favourite meal and what they consume. He challenges portraiture by expanding the process to organic narrative and regarded as intimate content. An essay detailing the project is available at his news blog site, via the weblink below.
Pleased to announce, Orders received by: Kiera Chaplin, Mamie Van Doren, John Gilmor, Loretta Lux, Henry Rollins, Raine Maida, Floria Sigismondi, John Rankin Waddell, Franko B, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Carlos Alomar, Ian Ayres, Mette Madsen, David LaChapelle, Ron Athey, Wiesje Van Hulst, Matthias Herrmann, Amanda Lepore, Romi Dames, Mike Garson, Ulrich Schnauss, Marcel Wanders and more…

[Adamo Macri News Blog]

Myspace.com/NetworkArt Adamo Macri

artsforum — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:28:24 +0000

Adamo Macri Official Myspace Page: images, video, network and contact information. Click on the weblink: [ MYSPACE.com/NetworkArt ]

Adamo Macri: WordPress Images

artsforum — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:26:32 +0000

Montreal artist Adamo Macri: WordPress Images

Arts News Canada Featured Artist Adamo Macri

artsforum — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:08:14 +0000

Arts News Canada Adamo Macri

Featured Artist: Adamo Macri, Montreal, Quebec
One Onion Canon: Poster (Photographic Installation)

Multimedia artist Adamo Macri is based in Montreal, Canada. Specific themes interweave through Adamo’s art, such as the notion of procreation. He investigates form without parameters, fashioned through amalgamation of disparate components. He works with the idea of film and its use of multiple stills to evoke motion, time and evolution. The occurrence of motion and evolution examined through his art is also symbolic of the human condition. Macri has been showcased at Random Arts & Entertainment, Absolute Lomo, FRAME, in addition to having captured the attention of Susan Zadeh editor-in-chief of Eyemazing magazine. His latest projects entitled Slide and One Onion Canon are part of an online exhibit which involve video and photographic pieces which run from Oct. 31. to Dec. 25. 2007. Arts News Canada

Adamo Macri: Noir & Online with New Work

artsforum — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:38:40 +0000

Montreal, Canada. From Oct.31 through Dec.25.07 (Halloween Night – Christmas Day) Adamo Macri unveils his latest works via the World Wide Web. An online exhibition consisting of video and photographic pieces, which are part of a larger body of work attributing film noir and his approach to portraiture. The exhibit consists of two art projects titled SLIDE and One Onion Canon and can be viewed at the web link below.
Click on [ VIEW EXHIBIT ]

Adamo Macri: ANTIPASTO & The Celebrity.

artsforum — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:48:59 +0000

Adamo Macri ANTIPASTO: Tribute to Andy Warhol for Little Electric Chair 1964.
One aspect of Macri’s Antipasto project is the involvement of the “celebrity” and how this relates to the life and times of Andy Warhol. People whom Macri considers important contributors to the treasury of culture, and who have defined our time have been selected to participate. His list is comprised of a cross-section of artists, actors, writers, pop culture icons, film directors, designers and musicians. Macri holds a deep respect for these individuals and a merited esteem for their maverick work. Their involvement consists of answering one simple question, for the purposes of inspiring a piece of art which would depict an image that would represent an aspect of their being and an expansion on the approach to portraiture.
The Question: “If you were an institutionalized prisoner on death row and granted any meal of your choice, what would your last supper be?” On Feb 24, 07 Macri attended the opening of David LaChapelle’s AWAKENED at the Tony Shafrazi gallery in New York. There he met photographer/director David LaChapelle and New York’s transgender icon Amanda Lepore where they were both asked to participate in this project by revealing what their final meal would consist of. To listen to a sample of the replies Macri has receive click Audio Clip and to read the ANTIPASTO Essay Outline, go to Adamo Macri News Blog.

Adamo Macri: Become What You Eat.

artsforum — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:37:12 +0000

Multimedia artist Adamo Macri lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Specific themes interweave through Adamo’s art, such as the notion of procreation. He investigates form without parameters, fashioned through amalgamation of disparate components. He explores concepts of the metaphysical aspect of vector symbols becoming form or matter themselves, with an attempt of inventing an incorporeal transcendent landscape. Macri finds the relationship between surface and content, skin and visceral system, and the interdependence between the two in order to sustain life absorbing.
He works with the idea of film and its use of multiple stills to evoke motion, time and evolution. The occurrence of motion and evolution examined through his art is also symbolic of the human condition. Every individual’s state of being changes significantly during the course of one single day, due to the evolutionary nature of the human psyche and the constant adaptation to environment and mood. As a result, what one considers palatable in the morning is not necessarily deemed appealing in the afternoon or the evening. The route traced by these transitions is what he refers to as a “drill”, epitomized by his slogan, “If you catch me at the right time, I might be in the mood” or “Become what you eat”, this phrase is derived from his belief that the eventual use or consumption of the art dictates the final form and content.
Macri has received international praise, been showcased at Random Arts & Entertainment, Absolute Lomo, FRAME, in addition to having captured the attention of Susan Zadeh editor-in-chief of Eyemazing magazine amongst others. EXUVIAE is a short film illustrating the development process of concept art, along with the act of documenting sculpture as “action” or “event” involving multiple photographic images.
Adamo Macri News Blog
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