David Adamo has developed his own independent stance as a sculptor outside of formalism over the last few years. The artist has become known with extensive installations made of industrially produced wooden objects. He works on walking sticks, baseball bats or the shafts of hammers up to the point where they lose their actual function. The resulting wood shavings lie on the floor around the object like a frame. Adamo works on objects and situations, which are suffused with poetry and absurdity at one and the same time. He creates spatial installations resembling stages and sculptures bearing a multiplicity of meanings and provoking narratives on the basis of their symbolism and of the materials used.
David Adamo (*1979 in Rochester, New York) has been living and working in Berlin since 2008. Most recently his artistic works were to be seen in, among other places, solo exhibitions in the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, at Untitled in New York, in the Kunsthalle Fribourg und in Confort Moderne Poitiers. In addition, he has participated in numerous international group exhibitions, among others, »Based in Berlin« (KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 2011), »Whitney Biennale« (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2010) and »Psychosculptures« (De Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2010).
Thomas Thiel, Bielefelder Kunstverein (Hg./ed.)
Texte: Bob Nickas, Mary Rinebold, Thomas Thiel
