Adamo Macri

The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts

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"Besides Damo, 2013, the other two are Zoophily, and The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts. Although the latter is part of a video production, it can stand on its own as a singular portrait. Rather than “what does the artist mean,” a more appropriate question would be “how does he mean?” In that question are included queries about devices and techniques, and the various methods at his disposal to produce a given image."

~ Kenneth Radu (Alternative Waters: a Personal View of Recent Macri Portraits)

"Eyes uncovered contain drama or feelings of one kind or another; but eyes covered also suggest another, or other kinds of hidden drama or feeling. Eyes are living theatre and eyeglasses are either curtains drawn across the stage or participants in the action, the glasses becoming part of the drama, if I may strain the analogy. Look at the spectacular dark glasses symbolizing wings in flight in Macri’s The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts."

~ Kenneth Radu (The Eyes Have It: Adamo Macri’s Sunglasses)

“The angularity creates both a sense of bravado and intimidation, and in certain images they suggest the beginning of a transformation from human into another creature or identity, as in The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts. The underlying concept of and insistence upon shifting into new forms of being is so integral to Macri’s art that I cannot assume that I know who he is as an individual, or what exactly he is doing in any one portrait.”

~ Kenneth Radu (Not So Basic Black: Portraits by Adamo Macri)

The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts, 2012
Photography: Chromogenic C-print
71 x 61 cm

The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts, 2012 (Adamo Macri)

01:35 - 1920 × 1080
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