Valerio
Adami
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Valerio Adami (b. March 17, 1935) is an
Italian painter. Educated at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, he
has since worked in both London and Paris. His art carries
obvious influence from Pop Art.
Adami was born in Bologna, and by 1945
he was studying painting from Felice Carena. He was accepted
into the Brera Academy (Accademia di Brera) in 1951, and there
studied as a draughtsman until 1954 in the studio of Achille
Funi. In 1955 he went to Paris, where he met and was influenced
by Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam. His first solo exhibition came
in 1959 in Milan.
In these early years of his career,
Adami's works were expressionistic, but around the time of his
second exhibition in 1964 at Kassel, he had developed a style of
painting reminiscient of French cloisonnism, featuring regions
of flat color bordered by black lines. Unlike Gauguin, however,
Adami's subjects were highly stylized and often presented in
fragments, as seen in Telescoping Rooms (1965).
In the 1970s, Adami began to address
politics in his art, and incorporated subject matter such as
modern European history, literature, philosophy, and mythology.
In 1971, he and his brother Gioncarlo created the film Vacances
dans le désert.
From 1985 to 1998, there were four
retrospective exhibits of Adami's work in Paris, the Centre
Julio-Gonzalez de Valence (Spain), Tel Aviv, and Buenos Aires.
Since 2004, Valerio Adami is represented
in Europe by Galerie Daniel Templon.
