With the first works presented in September 2024, the Incanti represent an attempt to bring together all the elements of D'Adamo's painting research, continuing this path in search of new visual solutions. In Incanti we find the complexity and layering of the image that characterizes his works, combined with the musicality of the gesture, the juxtaposition of a strong palette with neutral, almost mural-like spaces, a stroke now disruptive now intimate and diaristic, calligraphic. The outcome is an image in constant motion, as if shaken by an subterranean wind, suspended on the canvas as if still to be fulfilled before our eyes, or ready to vanish into the mists from which it arose, vital and never resigned.

Incanti series

The Things/Cose series was introduced in 2025 after a wider transformative process. And what may appear almost as a fracture in the manifest image is actually a deeper, structural shift in its making.

Things/Cose

“Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes”. Started in 2016 and still in progress: architectures and materials are buried and re-emerged in a process of continuous redefinition of visible layers, their time and fate. Inspired by Italo Calvino “The Invisible Cities”.

Hidden Cities series

“Lost objects, found objects, things to be lost, things to be found. Objects and subjects. People and memories and habits and places. A look into our times amidst drama and irony, somewhere between a diary and a collective experience. And maybe much can be found, just by losing something.”

Lost and Found

Lost and Found: Papers

Imago series

Presented in mid-2022, Icastici collects the legacy of the Chimere, Imago and Manifesti series continuing their visual research and pushing it towards more silent and rarefied atmospheres where shapes and structures now seems completely dissolved and the sign re-emerges, now painted, now carved or scratched, to narrate on nebulous fields its new becoming.

Icastici series

The New Consonances represent both a point of arrival and a new beginning, marking the start of a new decade of work. Several elements developed in the previous collections here converge on the same surface, which becomes now dense and engraved now dilated and nebulous, with vivid chromatisms and harmonies, in search of new visual consonances.

New Consonances

In the Masquerade series D'Adamo starts from what he did at the beginning of his career with the works collected under the name of Dyssomnia to reach new images, characterized by strong colors, more distinct compositions and with some reminiscences of figurative elements, albeit disguised, or indeed masked. The visual richness of oil painting is separated by drawn lines, with charcoal or pastel, giving the final image a certain dynamism and movement.

Masquerade series

Seven works from the Grey series, collected as Sette Ricercari (Dalla Nebbia). Painted between November and December 2022, their name is related to the musical pieces composed for cello solo by D. Gabrielli (1650-90).

Sette Ricercari (Dalla Nebbia)

The path undertaken by the Artist years ago, first with the Chimere and then with Imago series, evolves and continues in these new works. The “Manifesti” cycle proposes mysterious images with a strong evocative and lyrical impact, where the sign becomes even more distinct and musical, the structures open and fall apart while large layers of color outline the entire composition, constantly suspended in a delicate equilibrium. (2021-2022)

Manifesti series

Started in 2017, the Melodie series collects works on paper made with inks and watercolors. As the title suggests, these works have their highlight in the musicality of gestures and brushstrokes, in the investigation of their relationship with the paper surface and in the immediacy of their presence.

Melodie

Works and compositions from my "Limbic" and "Monodie" series. All of them are mainly made with gouache and ink on paper.

Limbic & Monodie

mon·o·dy  (mn-d)
n. pl. mon·o·dies
1. An ode for one voice or actor, as in Greek drama.
2. A poem in which the poet or speaker mourns another's death.
3. Music
a. A style of composition dominated by a single melodic line.
b. A style of composition having a single melodic line; monophony.
c. A composition in either of these styles.


This collection gathers Monodie, works on paper made ​​with ink and gouache

Francesco D'Adamo