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Prospero Sycorax Ariel
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"Prospero Sycorax Ariel is arguably a veritable masterpiece, and I remember my visceral response and gasping out loud when I first saw it. Given the title, Macri is obviously drawing our attention to The Tempest, perhaps the most symbolic and surrealistic of Shakespeare’s plays. The picture is named not only after Prospero, the exiled conjuror and illusionist, but also after the witch Sycorax. At one time the ruler of the magical island, she was the mother of Caliban whom Prospero has enslaved after displacing her and her powers, just as the witch had once enslaved the sprite Ariel. The artist does not mention Caliban by name, the strange part-human and part-animal creature who has lusted after Miranda, Prospero’s daughter."
~ Kenneth Radu (Alternative Waters: a Personal View of Recent Macri Portraits)
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"A glance at the fiercely fine Prospero Sycorax Ariel confirms Macri’s astute and careful attention to hair. Any indication of civilized control or polite society and styles acquired in salons is swept away by the upsurge of hair, eyebrows, and the dirty unshaven face. Prospero depends upon the details of hair as much as it does on literary associations and colours of the forest floor or stagnant water."
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"A glance at the fiercely fine Prospero Sycorax Ariel confirms Macri’s astute and careful attention to hair. Any indication of civilized control or polite society and styles acquired in salons is swept away by the upsurge of hair, eyebrows, and the dirty unshaven face. Prospero depends upon the details of hair as much as it does on literary associations and colours of the forest floor or stagnant water."
~ Kenneth Radu (Hirsute Pleasures: Getting in Adamo Macri’s Hair)
Prospero Sycorax Ariel, 2013
Photography: Chromogenic C-print
69 x 53 cm
