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| Divide Magazine |
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| Concrete Facade |
Adamo Macri’s artistic practice is an ongoing experiment in transformation, focusing on materials, bodily concepts, and the definition of artwork. He fluidly works across various media—sculpture, photography, painting, video, and drawing—prioritizing concept over medium. His creations often transition through different forms, becoming narratives rather than fixed objects, marked by themes of identity and metamorphosis. Macri's consistent and ambitious body of work forms a cohesive universe centered on identity, mythology, and performance, which lends his practice authenticity and authority. His signature style features theatrical, symbolic, and psychologically charged elements, with repeated motifs such as masks and hybrid bodies that convey deeper intellectual ideas.
The emotional gravity of his work is reinforced by muted palettes and controlled staging, evoking haunting and contemplative moods. Objects like coral, antlers, and architectural fragments serve as meaning-bearing forms, demonstrating mature visual thinking. His art explores intersections of contemporary mythology, ritual portraiture, ecological anxiety, and the complexities of identity, balancing tension between beauty and unease, selfhood and disguise.
In his latest series, Concrete Facade, Macri shifts from organic explorations to a more architectural language. This evolution serves as a meditation on "somatic structuralism," a concept Macri coined that emphasizes the relationship between the human form and constructed spaces. Through a lens of civic and Art Deco aesthetics, he proposes that identity is meticulously constructed and defended, rather than inherently given.
