I painted the series titled Time Passages as a reaction to the concerns about bullying and how the world today is becoming increasingly mean-spirited.  My response was to reflect upon decades past through a series of paintings dripping with nostalgic imagery.  As I recall, the world has never been a safe place.  Maybe we just are privy to too much information in this day and age.  In any case, it is good to walk down memory lane and recall another time.  It's always more interesting when viewed through rose-coloured glasses, framing the moment  just so,  presenting it as we want to remember it rather than how it really was. As a piece of art, it stays with us, forever reminding us of what was, what is, and what perhaps should be.   

Who says the truth is always true? 

The series is available at Crescent Hill Gallery in Mississauga and distributed worldwide through Progressive Fine Art (416 860 0983)

Time Passages, 30"x30" mixed media on wood panel, resin finish (six in the opening series)

The evolution of Apparitions Series continues...
In Lives of the Saints, (48x96,mixed media on canvas,2013), the viewer is confronted by the images of 11 figures (or are there 13 figures-there are 2 dogs).  It evokes a feeling similar to being surrounded by the rooftop sculptures in St. Peter's square, but are these modern-day saints?  Are the dogs saints? This is a monochromatic, quasi-homogeneous, politically incorrect group!  Surely there can be no saints without proper representation!
Are there still saints among us?
View this  painting at Art Toronto next week, Hazelton Galleries.
It is, a painting.  Please use caution when viewing.

A note of thanks to all who have commented on my work as it appears on various television productions, the latest being Two and a half Men.  The pieces used in the show are indeed originals from the Triad Series.  Many have inquired about possibly seeing and actually purchasing pieces in the "vintage Adamo" series outlined on this site.  The most comprehensive collection of my earlier work can be found in
the Progressive Fine Art portfolio, some of which is still available for purchase.  Feel free to contact Brenda
at 416 860-0983.  Again, I am thankful to all who are interested in my work.  Is it as humbling as it is gratifying.  I hope to meet with some of you during Art Toronto next week at the convention centre.

In Rive Gauche,(60x60 mixed media on canvas,2013), the viewer is summoned to another possible world through suggestive forms and colour saturation. These elements conspire to create a sense of space, depth and perhaps time itself.  We are on the left bank of where?  It depends on where it is that you find yourself.
Available through Progressive Fine Art, 416 860 0983. 
 
I'm getting an eyeful of  autumn splendor through the south-facing windows.  The sun is shining, the fall colours brilliant....the pumpkin is on the front steps, anxiously awaiting a date with the carver...still a couple of weeks away.

In Griffone, (48"x96" mixed media on canvas,2013) several suggestions are made in terms of which direction the viewer may take in analyzing the piece.  The viewer's conclusions will largely depend on which
direction the viewer is coming from in terms of his/her own "head space".  It can be interpreted as autumn colour under a fresh blanket of early snow.  It can be seen as a chaos with hints of underlying order, or maybe as torn wire systems in some kind of fire resistant white insulation.  It can be seen as any number of things.  It has to be seen to be believed.
   What about the title?  Griffone?? Well, that changes everything, doesn't it ? It is, in English, Gryphon, or Griffin.  By giving it a title, you may believe that I'm allowing you to jump my train.  That's fine. Go ahead.  Maybe I just felt like calling it Griffone.  What if it is just a random, cool title?  The obvious influences are there:  Pollock, Riopelle, Les Automatistes......but it's all of those and something else.
 Your Reaction:  Can't put my finger on it.  Maybe it's in the texture!  Maybe there's a deep, personal significance in the term Gryphon, after all, it is a mythological creature with the head of an eagle and body of a lion-but where's the drawing or picture-I can't make it out-it's not familiar- I can't see it...I can't see it...I don't see it... I won't see it.
I can tell you what it is for sure: a painting.  See it at Art Toronto, 2013, Hazelton Galleries.

In the Aspromonte region of Calabria, the temperatures sometimes soar to stifling levels similar to what we are experiencing in Southern Ontario, albeit with considerably less humidity.  In the piece above, tiltled
Aspromonte Sera, I recall the intensity of feelings experienced when witnessing the sun setting on the parched, desert-like land.  There is colour, there is silence, there is distance.  There is heat.
  Take a cool little break this summer if you happen to be in Maple.  "On the Slate" is presenting "Luminous Vaughan", paintings by Pietro Adamo.  Bring the family-you may be surprised at the reactions to the pieces by your kids.  It's a beautiful, cool, grand space-and the paintings, I've been told, are worth a look!
The collection, expertly curated by Vaughan Arts Coordinator, Sharon Gaum-Kuchar ( formerly of the Varley Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario),  is on display from July 18-September 6, 2013.  Vaughan is lucky to be able to draw upon her wealth of expertise in fine art.  The pieces are from my personal collection as well as from Hazelton Galleries (Yorkville), Kipling Gallery (Woodbridge), and Canadian Heritage Fine Art Galleries (Kleinburg).  They were painted between 2010 and 2013 so they showcase the latest directions in my art.
For more information please contact facebook.com/RecAndCultureVaughan or tweet @RecAndCultureV.
Ahhh summer.......please enjoy it safely!!!!!!
 

The Tricolore Freeway- Italian Heritage Month, 2013

The poster above was created for this year's Italian Heritage Month.  It originated from the mind of a Canadian of Italian Heritage in a Kleinburg, Ontario studio, but it speaks to the universality of our experience:
we can always go home, because we are at home, wherever we go. We carry the love of our ancestral homeland within us. From homestead to new homes all over this planet.    

It has been an honour to have been asked to create this year's poster.  As you celebrate your Italian Heritage this month wherever you may be, stay true to the heart of the matter: "Saper Vivere!"
And may we all ride our vespas into the sunset!

Tanti saluti,
Pietro Adamo

In celebration of the arrival of spring, I am showing My Mirage, 48"x72" mixed media on canvas,2013.  Perhaps the title is the reason-Is that spring somewhere out in the distance, or is this the longest winter ever?  Don't think that I hate winter.  There is much inspiration in all seasons, and I am fortunate enough to live in a country that has all four (most years).   The cool skies and hint of light on the horizon are what I'm channeling right now-springtime's timely advance-let's hope it's not a mirage (with all due respect to groundhogs).

Hello and I trust you are having a wonderful 2013 so far!  So where have you seen the image above before? You know it-you are positive you have seen it somewhere.  The image above is Cordoba, a 40x60 canvas which I began working after returning from Spain in the late 1980's.  Yes, the original concept is that old.  It was not until after 2000 that it would resurface as a commission for a print which would become legendary in its popularity worldwide albeit as a textured, smaller version within a simple black frame.  I signed it using my confirmation name-Patrizio.  The original, pictured above, hangs in our home complete within a wonderful Roma frame.  Its run in the big box store is over after almost a decade (a record for a retail item in the store).  I do not name names in this space, but I can say that the people I was able to work with at Brushstrokes, the company behind the print, were the finest professionals in the industry at the time.  The company has since been sold and people have moved on, and some, have passed.  I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to have walked a part of this life with them. 
A walk through the old city of Cordoba in Spain would reveal all of the deconstructed elements in the painting-from the Moorish evidence everywhere to worn out heavy wooden doors that look like they would be more at home on a Spanish galleon.  I remember the day well.  I sat on a ledge beside a rusty bridge, and pondered the cloudless, silent sky.  I ate the sweetest orange.