Adamo Macri: GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR

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. He has been fortunate to acquire many orders in person on a portable tape recorder, which is very effective because the response obtained reflects the spontaneous nature of the interviewee’s reply, given the brief amount of time between question and answer. As it is obviously impossible to record everyone in person due to geographical reasons, he uses other methods to retrieve this information, such as e-mail, phone calls or written invitations.

Pleased to announce, Orders received by:
Massimo Vitali, Kiera Chaplin, John Baldessari, Karim Rashid, Elizabeth Gilbert, Mamie Van Doren, John Gilmore, Warren Fischer [Fischerspooner], Korban/Flaubert [Janos Korban & Stefanie Flaubert], John Sinclair, H.R. Giger, Loretta Lux, Sandro [Miller], Henry Rollins, Raine Maida, Peter Hook [New Order], Floria Sigismondi, Edward Ruscha, Annie Sprinkle, Barry Gifford, Sarah Maple, Thomas Beale, Michael Craig-Martin, John Rankin Waddell, Edland Man, Chris Anthony, Mr. Olympia Gunter Schlierkamp, Franko B, Randall Slavin, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Cheryl Dunn, Cheyenne Jackson, Stefano Cagol, Adam Broomberg [Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin], Carlos Alomar, Peter Walsh, Jim Lee [X-Men], Luke Slater, Ian Ayres, Jeffrey Milstein, Bryan Cassiday, Laurie Lipton, Elinor Carucci, David LaChapelle, Steven Severin [Siouxsie & the Banshees], Ron Athey, Warwick Saint, Ray Caesar, Roger Ballen, Max Hirshfeld, Adi Nes, David Faustino, Damon Gameau, Carli Hermes, Rune Olsen, Sean Kennedy Santos, Matthias Herrmann, Steve Conte [New York Dolls], David Vance, Amanda Lepore, Jeff Pickel, Andre Birleanu, Romi Dames, Barry Eisler, Jamie Hayon, Knut Larsson, Mike Garson, Ulrich Schnauss, Anthony Goicolea, Andrew James Jones, Claudia Kunin, Anthony Lister, Catherine Tafur, Chadwick Tyler, Kobi Israel, John Casey, Marcel Wanders, Laura Hughes, Marcelo Krasilcic, Andrew Yee, Ben Dunbar-Brunton, Jeremyville, Karine Laval, Arthur Lynn, Onibaka, Jon Burgerman, Roberto De Luna, Jeffrey Brown, Joe Ambrose, Poppy De Villeneuve, Nathan Sawaya, Richard Moon, Monica Majoli, Howie Pyro, Thomas Metcalf, Gibson Haynes, Lennie Lee, Terrence Koh, Max Andersson, Bodo Korsig, Nigel Poor, Dennis van Doorn, Peter Granser, Willem Kerseboom, Stuart Pearson Wright, Alnis Stakle, Clifford Bailey, Charles Cohen, Mel Ramos, Joy Goldkind, Virgil Brill, Eliza Geddes, Zachary Zavislak, Jean Jacques Andre, AA Bronson, Monika Behrens, Alessandro Bavari, Raphael Neal, German Herrera, Tim Hailand, Narcis Virgiliu, Eric Kellerman, James Higginson, Maria Lomholdt, Chris Bucklow, Martin McMurray, Sadegh Tirafkan, Rick Castro, Tune Andersen, David Creedon, Lisa Holden, Mariana Monteagudo, Miriam Cabessa, Shiromi Pinto, Gilles de Beauchene, Rene Bosch, Michael A. Salter, Adam Makarenko, Nicholas Di Genova, Sanford Biggers, David Ho, Tony Alva, Jesus Villa [HalfAnimal], Robin Williams, Tim Sullivan, Mitsy Groenendijk, Deborah Hamon, Chris Mars, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Priya Ray, David Ford, Jean Roman Seyfried, Natalie Lanese, Justin Kaswan, Adela Leibowitz, Eric Yahnker, John Leigh, Ric Woods, Aaron Van Dyke, Boris Hoppek, Ed Radford, Hazel Dooney, Joyce Tenneson, Fay Ku, Nathaniel Stern, Gay Block, Scott Yeskel, Michael Kenna, Rami Maymon, D. Dominick Lombardi, Adam Dugas, Markus Redl, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Tom Hunter, Anthony Gayton, Susan Jamison, Joseph Sinclair, Sarah Bereza, Matt Furie, Matteo Bosi, Shauna Born, Carlos Betancourt, Cindy Greene, Ted Noten, Justin Francavilla, Tony Moore, David Harry Stewart, Juliana Sohn, Max Von Essen, Sara Schneckloth, Thierry Bisch, Caniglia, Yuko Shimizu and more ...

Antipasto Essay Outline [Read]

Arts News Canada

November 9, 2007
Arts News Canada 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.

Online Exhibit Adamo Macri

Adamo Macri's latest works SLIDE and One Onion Canon which involve both video and photographic pieces in an online exhibition. The videos and two of the photographic works can be viewed from Oct.31st to Dec.25th, through the corresponding web link below.
Online Exhibit.

EXUVIAE

EXUVIAE is a short film illustrating the development process of concept art. Macri's ongoing approach to documenting sculpture as action or event involving multiple photographic images. This piece is being featured at NoTV Brightcove.TV

ONE ONION CANON

In 1946 film critic Nino Frank first applied the term Film Noir to some of the films Hollywood was producing during the period. Discussions of Noir often centre on visual and specifically cinematic elements such as chiaroscuro, extreme camera angles and expressionist distortion. Both literary and cinematic Noir are defined by the subjective point of view, the shifting roles of the protagonist, the ill-fated relationship between the protagonist and society, generating the themes of alienation and entrapment. One Onion Canon is part of a series of new works by Adamo Macri attributing Noir, involving the moving image and photographic pieces. He points out different aspects of this project as follows: First, ascribe to the dark impulse and mindset of Noir as this will dictate mood and esthetics. A filmic mise en scène approach to portraiture and the relationship between static and motion. A traplike state of consciousness versus the imperiled beauty which distills from it.

DUPLEX DRILL

Adamo Macri's Duplex Drill being featured at CultureTV. A film short illustrating the development process of a photographic project which consists of multiple images. 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 does not necessary appeal in the afternoon or 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.

SLIDE

SLIDE, 2007 Photographic & Video (duration 5:04 mins). The three elements which compose SLIDE described by Adamo: Image + Noir Canon + Word.

VERBOTEN

To view VERBOTEN, click on the image.
VERBOTEN: Adamo Macri 2007

ANTIPASTO ESSAY OUTLINE

ANTIPASTO: Tribute to Andy Warhol for Little Electric Chair 1964

Antipasto is a large scale art project consisting of numerous photographic pieces as well as performance and sculptural work. This venture is a daring new addition to Adamo’s ongoing exploration of the 3D Event, sculpture as occurrence, anti-sculpture and how it relates to the vanishing object in time, and the resonant image in the mind that remains.

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DVblog Random Arts and Entertainment

04.01.07 | Two short movies by Adamo Macri being featured at DVblog Random Arts and Entertainment.
• Still Life: The development process of Adamo Macri's photographic piece entitled Still Life. An animated sequence illustrating the making of an artwork which consists of multiple images. Preliminary sketches dissolving into the final photographs, hinting the nature of the work.
• Spout: An animated short poem and tribute to Ingmar Bergman. An acknowledgment for his great work in film.