Valerio Adami

Valerio Adami ( born March 17, 1935 in Bologna ) is an Italian painter who lives and works in Paris, Monaco and Meina Lake Maggiore. His painting shows influences of pop art, as the internationally -known Italian representative he is. In his adopted home of France, he is the narrative attributed to figuration.

Life

Adami began to deal with the painting of Felice Carena from 1945. On the recommendation of Oskar Kokoschka, he began in 1951 to study at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. In the class of neo- classicists Achille Funi he studied until 1954, especially with classical drawing. In 1955 he moved to Paris, where he was artistically influenced by Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam. His first solo exhibition was Adami in 1959 in Milan. In 1962 he married Camilla, as he graduated from the Brera Academy.

At the beginning of Adamis artistic development of expressive works are in the style of comic strips. Around the time of his participation in the documenta III in Kassel in 1964, he developed his own style of painting, reminiscent of the French Cloisonismus has. On the basis of a precisely transferred preparatory drawing Adami designs each painting as a system closed black contour lines, each single-color surfaces ( aplats ) limit. In 1965 he participates in Paris at the exhibition La figuration narrative that justifies this French response to the Anglo-Saxon pop art. In the late sixties he worked at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City a large image series using social criticism -conceived urban designs of 1968 he represented Italy at the Biennale of Venice. The catalog text writes Carlos Fuentes. Politicized by the revolutionary events of the years 1967/1968, he traveled to Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela, and turned in the sequence amplified political and historical topics. In 1971, he turned with his brother Giancarlo the film " Vacances dans le Désert ". With the German poet Helmut Heissenbüttel created in Munich in 1974, the book "The Kingdom " with a long poem and ten lithographs to the German story between 1914 and 1945. After a series of allegorical portraits of important pioneers of modernism (for example, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin), his painting opens from mid-seventies of the Western history and mythology. In 1977 he took part in a second time at a documenta documenta 6 in the department drawing.

By the critics recognized as a paradigm of postmodern position in the painting, Adamis work was often subject of philosophical reflection, especially by Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean -François Lyotard, Jean Luc Nancy, Michel Onfray, Hubert Damisch, Paolo Fabbri. Many contemporary poets have responded with their own texts on Adamis ' literary painting, "said Italo Calvino, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz and Antonio Tabucchi.

Adami is a member of the College International de Philosophie and Commander of the Legion of Honour.

In 2005 he founded in Meina, Italy Fondazione Europea del disegno - Fondation Adami. The Foundation shall maintain not only his artistic legacy, but in particular the cultural technique of drawing, understood in its broadest sense as a 'draft of a thing ', explore and teach.

The first retrospective of his work was in 1970, the Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. For fiftieth birthday in 1985 honored him the Musée National d' Art Moderne - with a large retrospective, which was shown in the result also in the Palazzo Reale in Milan. Since then, followed by other museum retrospectives of his work, as in Valencia, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Siena, Bochum, Buenos Aires, Florence, Athens, Locarno and Miami.

Adami has realized several works in public space. Best known are the painting in the foyer of the Théâtre Musical de Paris - Théâtre du Châtelet, and the two monumental paintings in the station hall of the Gare d' Austerlitz.

After many years of collaboration with Galerie Maeght Fondation Maeght Lelong later, and a few years at the Marlborough Gallery Adami is represented by the Galerie Daniel Templon and Galerie Haas Zurich and Galerie Michael Haas Berlin since 2004.

Quotes:

  • " If I want to make a blob, I draw him."
  • " A painting is primarily a system to capture memories. "
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