HORIZONTE ARTIFICIAL (ARTFICIAL HORIZON)
UTOPIA PARKWAY Art gallery, 12/09/2024
ADAMO DIMITRIADIS: THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE
By
Javier Díaz-Guardiola
I remember perfectly this appreciation of the artist José Antonio Hernández-Díez (Venezuela, 1964), that gave me when I interviewed him on the dates of his exhibition in 2016 at the MACBA in Barcelona (1):Every society imagines the future from its own present.
UNPOPULAR SCIENCE
UTOPIA PARKWAY Gallery, 14/01/2022
Futuristic bestiary
By
Silvia Grijalba
Adamo Dimitriadis has us accustomed to showing us elegant happiness, in his own way. To recover that world in Technicolor, of perfect houses, well-combed women and men with beards perfectly trimmed like the yard of his American suburban house.
CIUDAD TERMINAL (TERMINAL CITY)
UTOPIA PARKWAY Gallery, 11th of January 2019
By Carlos Hernández Pezzi
The times of the stroller, the city of Baudelaire's "flâneur", have disappeared forever. Dazzled by Walter Benjamin, we urban planners strive to revive it, but artists place it in other spaces such as those of Giorgio de Chirico, in which melancholy is not traversed by wandering, but by dreaming of cosmological visions...
MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
UTOPIA PARKWAY Gallery, 12/01/2017
The future is no longer what it was
By
Sergio C. Fanjul
Before the year 2000 arrived, we imagined the future in a different way: flying cars that circulated weightlessly over crystal-clear cities with green grass, geodesic domes full of harmony and very healthy future citizens dressed in pristine white outfits and metallic accessories.
ECHOES OF THE ATOMIC AGE
BEZ,
12/05/2016
Text by Adamo Dimitriadis and Marta Molina, journalist and curator of the exhibition Echoes of the Atomic Age
Then, as now, the imperfect future was more than just the wrong version of a verb tense. Grammar surpassed the concept and tomorrow began to be seen with concern. These were times of the Cold War and the atomic nuclear threat, but the propaganda of a brave new world worked hard to deny those feared imperfections on both sides of the Iron Curtain.