N.O. GALLERY
DAVID ADAMO
September 18th - November 15th, 2009
ARTISTS
Abstract + WORKS ON VIEW
N.O. Gallery is pleased to present the first Italian solo show of David Adamo.
The exhibition is conceived as a single installation and it is based on a large scale piece: a suspended concert harp anchored on stage. A minimal arrangement is scored to indicate where cultural and historical references come together revealing a disorientating and self-consciously poetic as a multi-layered environment.
David Adamo’s work is characterized by performance and research trips, incidents that are the starting point for a sequence of installations and projects in which Adamo aims to dissect and reprocess both gathered data and the memories of his experiences. Never satisfied to allow boundaries to be defined for him, Adamo navigates limits of normal behavior and circumstance, and doing so he redefines where those borders lie.
Adamo’s work is a combination of formed and found materials, with apparently no connection, suggesting the idea of a remnant of some prior activity or event that is left for the viewer to decode.
A feature of Adamo’s work is to present a reality of something having happened, and a play with time, where objects are the only proof.
The artist's curriculum is available in PDF file format.
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