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| Damo, 2013 |
“People familiar with Adamo Macri’s portraits may well experience an aesthetic shock to see a picture of the artist with his eyes wide open. So many of his self-portraits depict the eyes averted, lowered, askance, or rarely looking directly at the viewer that I was taken aback by a recent picture, entitled Damo 2013. There are a few other pictures in his Facebook oeuvre wherein the artist opens his eyes and stares out of the canvas, Self-Portrait, 2013, for example, but that is a study in shadows, and the gaze seems reluctant and melancholy. In Damo 2013 Macri confronts the viewer boldly, provocatively, no hesitation, no flinching, a full depiction of the apparent Macri face without accoutrements, ornaments, masks or shadows, and one might appropriately assume, without a trace of clothing, even if the body from the neck down is out of sight.”
~ Kenneth Radu (Alternative Waters: a Personal View of Recent Macri Portraits)
Damo, 2013
