David Adamo

David Adamo ( b. 1979 in Rochester, New York, NY, US) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Adamo’s oeuvre incorporates sculpture, performance, installation, and video. In his sculptures, Adamo has often manipulated familiar manufactured objects: canes, baseball bats, tools and axes carved and hacked away in such a way that they become disconnected from their intended use, the inherent strength of each transformed into a fragile ghost of what we expect. Adamo’s new work pushes these transformations in new directions, not only subverting an object’s intrinsic use but also playing with shifts in size and material. Squashed tomatoes are cast in bronze; rolled-up carpets are carved from trunks of cedar wood. The sculptures can take on impressive dimensions or become tiny, inconspicuous objects. The objects Adamo continuously transforms into artworks are always familiar objects, like household radiators, erasers and even cookies or fruits. They are everyday domestic objects, objects that remind the artist of home, of family, of his child.

Adamo has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, US; The Mordes Collection, West Palm Beach, FL, US; M.A.C – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY US; Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany.