Art Collection

Pietro Adamo

Untitled Abstracts
(paintings on paper)
Acquired: 1999
Location: Second Floor, Reference Collection

Canadian artist Pietro Adamo attended fine arts programs at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College and has participated in one-man and group shows in North America and Europe. He began his career as a realist landscape painter but could never escape his profound interest in the abstract.

Works like the two in the Reference Department are celebrations of the artist's admiration for freedom of expression, feelings and emotions, and the "unpredictable and inexhaustible record of life." Adamo focuses on geometric spatial relationships, and texture and form give optimism and strength to his works. "I have to paint to speak without words, to express myself without restrictions…never relenting."