Adamo Macri
Identity Matrix (Galerie ERGA) 2017

Adamo Macri
Triffid II performance

"The relationship between Macri’s art and his viewers, myself included, can be intensely close, intensely symbiotic, as if he creates out of our fascination, and we become more aware of our own contradictions and layers of being through his creations. He doesn’t ask us to admire so much as suggest that we cast off blinkers and recognize that what we see in his portraits may well be the face of our many and often secret identities. And the name of Macri’s show in November in the ERGA Gallery was in fact Identity Matrix. Nor should we forget the meaning of the word matrix."
~ Kenneth Radu (Adamo Macri’s Triffid and I)

“Adamo Macri’s recent exhibition, Identity Matrix, held in Montreal’s Erga Gallery (November, 2017), is certainly well named. The collective portraits bring home the fact that viewers should be wary of making absolute assumptions about his art, however much this particular admirer can never resist feeling and thinking about interpretation. Every Macri image isn’t so much an end result as it’s an endless process. Matrix, a noun that implies creativity, is not finality, but development. Identity: well, Macri’s art displays many, at times paradoxical, identities: the becoming and forming, the magical and mysterious, the mythical and the scientific. Every picture invites immersion and advises caution. I imagine the artist speaking: you think you see the real person you think you know, but you see what mask I wear and what you wish to see, which says more about yourself than me. And what “real person” or “me” are we talking about anyway? Can I, the viewer, make sense of these original and extraordinary portraits?”

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“You are a dangerously sexy creature, master Macri!”
~ Kasper Melchior (Explorer at levensmallemolen, Groningen Netherlands)

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“Mai, mai e poi mai.. scopare con me, ve ne innamorerete eccellente!”
~ John Felice Ceprano (Ottawa rock sculptor, painter)

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“Ooh! I know the name of one of those works of art for sure! Adamo Macri such a blessing to be a part of it.”
~ Marco Girgenti (Actor, Composer/arranger, Public Speaker)

Identity Matrix - Adamo Macri solo exhibition
November 2 - 7, 2017
Vernissage: Thursday Nov 2, 5pm

Galerie ERGA
6394 boul. Saint-Laurent
Montréal, Québec
H2S 3C4

Exhibition 2017