“The Art of Changing of Jò Badamo
It seems that there is a universal rule born with humankind
that takes a man through a new sensational adventure without any solution of continuity.
With the fire discovery, we saw it with the significant scientific discoveries
that intelligence tries to improve.
We also saw it with the little and big inventions, and
we have also noticed it through the art, in intellectual and spiritual’s
galaxy, the artist continues to choose the taste and the aspiration of the new.
He exceeds himself as Icarus did in his experience of the flight rising
spiritually the new processes. That is what happened in music, sculpture and
graphic, and in painting, probably more complex, expressive scene, where we
need to mention Picasso, Dali and Fontana's evolution to understand. It is just
a universal rule, but the exception can only confirm it.
It is only a morbid curiosity to know what is over the
historical straits of Gibraltar. Or is it just the spirit of adventure?
Mythology, an incredible man invention, would confirm
that it to us. The time's tyranny can neither oppose this frenetic and proud
wish because the works of the intelligence are imperishable witness of a great
adventure. Jò Badamo cannot escape from this temptation. He leaves his
monochromatic style for new scenery in a few years, full of brightness and
colours. We can identify with the ultramodern special effects, so he leaves a
historical stage of rural civilization life, for a historical, not historical
location, which arrives at the Kolosimo’s temple of mystery.
It seems that there is a mysterious hand that imposes
the mind particular choices. It is not the reason but the subconscious that
drives the artist. The light presence of a symbolic and formal element, in one
way, confirms us an informal evolution of the form; in the other, it cannot let
us define the belong to a pictorial current, even if we could refer to the
surrealism or metaphysic.
We advise that the new Badamo always works at the
unconscious level, an eschatological procedure to the last man and the world's
destiny. It seems so image, but it is really like this. It appears that the
artist draws larval life figures in a new time, a new world.
Indeed, the artist follows the events like an eternal
Cassandra; that is what we saw with Giulio Varrese’s phantasy to let the iron
float. Apart from doctrinal, Badamo’s acrylics seem to be sabre cuts of sails
or coloured cones, harmonies and visions of depth and galaxies that drag death
nature as memories, and more, trees, plants, flowers, and snails, very
stylized, saw through deformed prisms.
We cannot understand in his fantastic new painting
where there is the man and were the artist. One thing is sure, his picture is
good looking, and they are fascinating because they deserve to be studied ”.
Art critic
Nic Giaramita