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October 6, 2007- November 3, 2007
Reception: October 6, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Adam Adach
D'Amelio Terras
525 W 22nd St Adam Adach Rally (2007) |
The three large works in the show that make up a series Day After/Pelham Bay/ are based on Adach’s experience of an urban beach during low tide strewed with curved engines and corroded vessels. These relics give the scene an anti-utopian feel and act as points of departure for canvases based on events during WWI, Stalinist dictatorship, Nazi invasion of Europe, Space Race, as well as more recent history.
The painting Enemies is based on a photograph from a French newspaper from WWI that shows German marines diving off into the Adriatic Sea. The Rally documents a congress held by the extreme right political party in Poland after it has assumed power in 2004. The circular composition is illuminated by the blue light, which gives the scene the feel of a science fiction movie. Here, as in other works, Adach filters a record of a historic event through visual elements of popular culture as well as his own subjectivity bringing the event into the present.
In 2007 Adam Adach had a solo show titled Portraits. Mirrors. at the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland. A fully illustrated catalog was published in connection with the exhibition. In 2006 he was included in an exhibition Le Mouvement des Images at Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
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