Untitled, 1975 – Valerio Adami
Valerio Adami
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Description
Provenance: Gio Marconi
Dimensions: Sheet: 96 x 86 cm – Image: 89.5 x 60 cm
Signature: Pencil signature
Product conditions: Mint
Technique: Screen printing – 100 copies
VALERIO ADAMI
Was born in Bologna on 17 March 1935. In 1944 the family moved permanently to Milan after a short stay in Padua during the war years. In 1960 he won the Lissone prize and participated in the Young Italian Painters exhibition at the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art in Japan. The following year he was present at the Italian Artists exhibition organized at the Cambridge Art Association in Boston. During the second half of the 1960s, numerous international exhibitions of Valerio Adami were organised. Thus began a series of long stays that took him, among other things, to London, New York, Cuba, Tokyo, Caracas, Bavaria, India, Israel, Scandinavia and Argentina. All these journeys will have a profound impact on the culture and artistic vision of Valerio Adami, who will often address themes typical of cultures different from ours in his works. In 1966 he drew the portrait of Nietzsche, the first of a long series of “literary portraits”, where the line follows less the physiognomy than the outline of a symbolic thought.
Two important exhibitions are dedicated to him in the Schwarz and Marconi galleries in Milan. In 1968 the Venice Biennale dedicated a room to Adami’s paintings. In 1971 he moved to New York, where he opened his atelier and from this date, he will return regularly for a few months each year. During these years he met numerous writers, philosophers and painters, including Dino Buzzati, Helmut Heissenbuttel, Marc Le Bot and Jacques Derrida, with whom he established powerful lasting bonds that allowed him a continuous and rich exchange of ideas and opinions. In the meantime, the human figure has entered his paintings more and more clearly: no longer just bodies placed among objects, in the decoration of interiors or public places. In 1990, after returning to live on Lake Maggiore, he held a major retrospective at the IVAM- Center Julio Gonzàlez in Valencia, and the following year, again in Spain, an exhibition was dedicated to him at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. In 1992 he left for a long trip to Mexico which was followed by another long trip to India in 1996. Having returned to Italy in 1997, Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence hosted a large exhibition of his divided into themes. In 1998 he created a monumental painting for Monte Paschi di Siena. In 2000, the European Drawing Foundation was born in Meina, the city where the master lives, in the restored Museum of Villa Faraggiana. In 2006 the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone awarded the artist a lifetime achievement award and hosted a major retrospective entitled Adami d’après Adami. In 2009 he inaugurated, together with his wife Camilla, the Camilla ADAMI Valerio retrospective at the Palazzo Reale in Milan. In 2011 the city of Lucca celebrates his work with a triptych of exhibitions dedicated to his drawings, paintings and watercolours. In 2012, the Tega Gallery in Milan decided to inaugurate its new headquarters by dedicating a vast retrospective to Adami entitled Figures in Time, accompanied by an important catalogue, containing numerous historical essays on the Artist.
