Cellular Excitement: An Appreciation of the Art of Adamo Macri Part 1
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Cellular excitement. An Appreciation of the Art of Adamo Makary by Kenneth Radu. In many of his drawings, photos, constructions and other pieces of art, Adamo Macri depicts various forms existing beneath the visible surfaces of the world and the reality of secret, minuscule life. Teeming in obscure places, he explores or imagines acts of creation, from the fundamental cellular level of existence to the intangible world of states of mind and desire. His style emerges from multiple techniques, for he is a multi media artist, working with a wide range of technologies and organic elements. His drawings and still lifes often appear curled and world as if produced in a swell of electrified haste, but they're nonetheless deeply imbued with intimations. One cannot help but feel that in Macri's art, the birth of the cell is the beginning of raw passion, the latter term to be understood as energy, feeling, changes and violations of conventional attitudes or standard responses. Many of his drawings are concerned with the elemental phenomena of existence, intimate states of desire and transgressive yearnings at times which, paradoxically done in tones of grey, illuminate pre rational being lines connecting, inserting, rotating circular and circulating the unfolding and opening the receiving in the penetrating, fierce currents of bodily fluids, the energy of seeds bursting of life, fermenting the provocative daring of instinct and urges ****** connectedness outside the realm of romantic banality on depressive morality but within the dynamic of instinct unleashed and given concrete form in art itself. Such is the dynamic and provocative world of Adamo Macri. His drawing of a giant male figure howling embodies what I am saying. Here is the most overtly expressed of all the images omitting power. Almost quasi mythic in its emergent and ravenous stance, Macri's art reveals an obsession with invisible reality. The vigour of the cell in a ll things almost going to the heart of the nuclei itself. Fully aware of bodies, water and blood and the genetic basis of human identity, He becomes fascinated with the interruption of what would ordinarily constitute normal development. The normal endocrine secretions into the blood of stool interrupted or transformed, perhaps accompanied by gender altering and experimentation, a liberation from biological determinism which need to sexual transfiguration, alteration and transformation transmogrification by the magic genius of his art. As even thie genetic facts of humanity are mutated in this context morphology itself under the microscope all illustrate aberrations of the human form, sometimes self willed, as in the deliberate drinking of poisons or socially inflicted, as in the absorption of a polluted atmosphere into the cells of nature. Such changes to the human form challenge ideologies of beauty and natural nous. We think of the alluring statuary of classical Greece, from which we derive our ideals of physical beauty, of human shape and proportions. Confronted by its antithesis, the frequent freakish, which break down the classic norms of size, shape, texture, the perfect physique. Does the freak both repel and fascinate because he violates our standard views of correct appearance of the body? Beautiful Does a kind of ironic beauty emerged with a small gin noxious atmosphere of contemporary life? Macri ranges far with an often restricted palette and often focuses on minute details, for example, in the accumulated in crustaceans on a drainpipe, potentially disgusting yet effectively beautiful. However strange, it seems to be an image of bubbling corrosion. But from an entirely different perspective, it's a depiction of life emergent in obscurity, life at the cellular level, as the artist in his acute and fine perception sees it