David Adamo, Untitled
From May 20, 2021, Liaigre is pleased to present an exhibition of the American artist David Adamo under the skylight of the atelier at 77 rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. This exhibition, realized in partnership with the gallery Peter Freeman, proposes a set of monumental sculptures in cedar.
Courtesy of the artist & Peter Freeman, Inc., New-York / Paris.
See detailsFrom May 20, 2021, Liaigre is pleased to present an exhibition of the American artist David Adamo under the skylight of the atelier at 77 rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. This exhibition, realized in partnership with the gallery Peter Freeman, proposes a set of monumental sculptures in cedar.
Courtesy of the artist & Peter Freeman, Inc., New-York / Paris.
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“I started to approach my sculptures from the idea that I wanted to make a performance, but there was no audience. And then I started to make installations that for me were like performances.” David Adamo*
A process of slow removal is central to Adamo’s sculpture. Objects from everyday life take on new forms, revealed by their remains: the fruit after it has been bitten, the balloon after the air has run out. These remnants are cast in various materials, including bronze, plaster, and aluminum. The same is true of Adamo’s wood works—the eventual forms emerge through the reduction of material. In 2011, Adamo exhibited in the matronaea of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, Italy.
He was offered the opportunity to work with an unused oak beam from the Baroque renovation of the church. Since then, wood has been his material of choice. He has produced a whole corpus of wood sculptures, mainly totem-like columns, but also everyday objects such as rolled rugs or musical instruments and, more recently, busts.
Left, Untitled, 2012 - Western red cedar, pigment | Untitled, 2012 - Western red cedar, racquetball ball
Right, Untitled, 2012 - Set of 5 columns; western red cedar
Right, Untitled, 2012 - Set of 5 columns; western red cedar
Left, Untitled, 2012 - Western red cedar, pigment | Untitled, 2012 - Western red cedar, racquetball ball
* Thomas Thiel, “Sculpture as Performance”, in Thomas Thiel (dir.), David Adamo: Untitled (Bielefeld: Bielefelder Kunstverein & Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2015), p. 16.
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