Parapet, Adam Adach, 2004
Adam Adach is a Polish painter who currently lives and works in Paris. Much of his work is derived from objects such as anonymous portraits, discarded photographs (both of his own family and of unknown people and places), books, and old magazines. He is interested in the way in which ideologies, such as communism and fascism, have affected the individual within the different nations of Europe, and how the "little people" fit within or fall out of a grand historical narrative. Although his paintings are far removed from their source imagery, Adach maintains that the documentary aspect of the found photograph allows him to explore "a different dimension" of the image "without losing its link to history".
Adam Adach's work has been exhibited in New York at D'Amelio Terras gallery, and in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne and the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou. Click here to view more of his works.
Gray skies ahead, Adam Adach, 2005
