In this sprawling, ambitious series, Adriano invites the viewer into a kaleidoscopic journey through thought, memory, doubt, and absurdity. Constructed from fragments of diary entries, philosophical musings, and socio-political critiques, the works function as a kind of visual self-help manual for surviving modern life—where contradiction is constant, and clarity is fleeting.
The title—part plea, part riddle, part provocation—reflects the artist’s disarming embrace of uncertainty. Adriano’s use of text and visual skew mimics the off-kilter logic of lived experience, questioning the very frameworks we use to interpret meaning. “Remind me” is less a request for help and more an invitation to co-investigate the boundaries of knowing and not knowing.
Materials range from traditional media like paint and gold leaf to the artist’s pioneering use of reflective holography—a technique for which he was granted a patent in 1998. These holograms, far from being decorative novelties, serve as shimmering metaphors for perception itself—shifting and reconfiguring with the viewer’s position, just as meaning does.
Adriano’s work operates in the spirit of a Zen koan: images and words destabilize rather than define. His mixed-media compositions offer no answers, but open mental and emotional space for viewers to engage their own interpretations. By layering philosophical inquiry with absurdist humour and visual experimentation, Remind Me… becomes not just a series of artworks, but an ongoing dialogue between artist and audience, between lost thought and emerging clarity.
Ultimately, “Remind Me” poses a profound question:
Who can you ask, when no one knows?
In this series of works, created over 2011 – 2013 Adriano uses text in the notes to challenge or question preconceived attitudes and myopic viewing. “Remind me, implies that I simply don’t know. The reason I don’t know is that I have doubts about what is… and why it is… and why should it be? Is there no other way? If we deal in infinite space then Remind Me implies that the people I am referring to – my viewers – have the opportunity to state why it is not so, to have an opinion based on the knowledge that has been learnt. The knowledge I seek is the ambiguity of everything.”
Many of the works are tilted or skewed, to allow exploration that play upon the ambivalence of the skew, both the vertical and the horizontal, combined with other mixed media such as paint, resins gold. In Remind Me the imagery is not intended to be illustrative of the question they are more akin to a Buddhist koan (a story, question, or statement, which is used in Zen-practice to provoke the “great doubt”) The scale of the works range from 500mm x 500mm to 2420 x 1220mm (approx. 20”x 20” to 8’x 4’)
Adriano combines the diary notes and other media with the reflective hologram with which he has used to produce a large number of art works. The technique for using reflective hologram (sometimes referred to as rainbow or Benton’s hologram) so that it could be used as an art medium was developed by him, and for which he was granted a patent in 1998.
Remind me, Art competitions – for those who need to prove themselves to themselves, forgetting the new has no competitors 500mm x 500mm Reflective hologram & mixed media
Remind me, being Italian is not getting tangled in the spaghetti, the source, the source! 1000mm x 420mm Gold, reflective hologram on synthetic paper
Remind me, that was then theis is now Remind me, Infinity – 8 letters – curious? 995mm x 420mm Gold, reflective hologram & mixed media
Remind me, why I create works akin to music – so will you dance? 1000mm x 420mm Reflective hologram & mixed media
Remind me, there are no rules in art – only perception Remind me, Fred Williams landscapes are alway under my feet 500mm x 500mm Reflective hologram & mixed media
Remind me, there are no rules in art – only perception Remind me, Fred Williams landscapes are alway under my feet 500mm x 500mm Reflective hologram & mixed media