We would like to thank Hampton Gallery and their incredible staff for hosting the opening night of Pietro Adamo’s solo show “ Connection” in Montreal. For those of you interested in where the show title came from
here’s an excerpt from Adamo’s biography-
In the summer of 1967, I was lucky enought to travel to Montreal to
experience Expo 67 with my “cool” cousins who had moved to the city. I saw
THE FUTURE. I saw MODERN. I experienced the fashion, the new ideas, the new art ( it did not look like anything i had ever seen! ). There to party, but I absorbed so much more.
At the time, the CN Tower was a glint in some architect’s eye, and despite the Leafs-Habs bitter rivalry, Montreal was definitely Canada’s largest and most progressive city. I returned to T.O. having been thoroughly loosened up. My outlook had changed. I was still a kid, but my artscape was beginning to mature. It was then that I began to realize the value of seeing and observing as being just as important as the action of drawing and painting. I realized that art was more than Da Vinci and Michelangelo. These crazy Pieces by Riopelle, Molinari, Snow- they too had merit. I remember thinking: “ This is more like the world today” and “ that’s kind of what living feels like today”. It contrasted sharply with the art we were doing in which representation was key. If it didn’t look like anything, it couldn’t be anything! Oh but it was...and so much more.
It was : EXPRESSION.- Pietro Adamo
Don’t forget , if you couldn’t make it that evening ,the show is on until Dec. 6.
