Concrete Facade 

Concrete Facade is the first completed of at least seven planned artworks. The process began with an idea for a digital artwork driven by architecture, specifically inspired by Art Deco buildings of the 1920s. Through extensive research and image collection, various architectural elements were selected, modified, and deconstructed, then reassembled into an abstract collage that blended both real sourced fragments and newly redesigned components. This collage served as a constructed backdrop for a central character statue in the Art Deco style. To realize the character, Macri defined its detailed appearance and captured a reference photograph of himself in a similar pose. Once the collage was finalized, it became the reference guide for creating a digital rendering, built piece by piece like a puzzle until the entire composition came together as a cohesive, surreal digital painting. This approach differs from Macri’s usual practice, in which sculptural objects are physically created and then photographed; here, the work originates from a constructed collage of fragmented images that is transformed into a complete digital artwork.

Macri's art, termed somatic structuralism, presents an architectural perspective where the human body and space intertwine. His works reinterpret styles like Brutalism through an anatomical lens, positioning each portrait as a fragment of a larger architectural narrative—part chapel, part laboratory, part submerged ruin. Masks serve as façades, coral forms act as load-bearing grids, and bodies emerge as temporary wings of shifting structures. Instead of merely decorating, his pieces create distinct environments: Brutalist reliquaries blended with organic growth, parametric baroque designs turning emotions into ornament, and marine-inspired forms reminiscent of submerged city skeletons. For collectors, these artworks embody a spatial logic, influencing how surrounding spaces are perceived and experienced. Faces become load-bearing surfaces, reflecting a fractured identity akin to concrete distressed by rusting rebar. The essence of Brutalism manifests in exposed, monolithic forms that evoke a sense of the sacred yet unsettling, reminiscent of postwar concrete churches and weathered structures. Macri's pieces suggest architectural concepts that challenge traditional aesthetics, expressing structural failures and emotional depths through a unique interplay between art and architecture.


Concrete Facade Series
Digital Art: Chromogenic C-print
102 x 91 cm

Concrete Facade (2026)
Concrete Facade II (in progress)