His abstract sculpture will make you think of classical sculpture, or of the early modernist Auguste Rodin. Hadzi's merger of old and new begins with his materials. By working in bronze, he carries on a sculptural tradition going back to the ancients. He places many of his pieces atop pedestals made of marble, the very material upon which much of civilization was literally built. Plastic or found objects have no place in his artistic vocabulary.
Architectural echoes resound throughout the show.
Ironically, Hadzi's modernist reworkings of classical references are themselves part of a 20th-century sculptural tradition. Although it would be overstating things to say that his art seems old-fashioned by the standards and interests of many younger sculptors, he's clearly working in a manner that is itself firmly placed within art history. Not every sculpture here rises to the occasion in a compelling way, but the structural and thematic twists, turns, and transformations are worth watching. There are two sculptures in particular that merit a long look. Even if its title didn't directly point you to Rodin's famous sculpture of the French writer Honore de Balzac, the reference probably would register anyway.