Valerio Adami
The artist
Born in 1935 in Bologna, Valerio Adami is a leading figure in the Narrative Figuration movement. His acrylic paintings are characterised by blocks of colour outlined in black evoking the themes of travel, music, literature and theatre. The notion of mystery is expressed in the many literary references that populate the paintings, a notion that always plays a central role in his work, which he defines as a philosophical questioning.
Exhibitions
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Valerio Adami
May 14 - July 16, 2022
Paris - Beaubourg -
Les années 80
September 7 - October 19, 2019
Paris - Beaubourg -
Recent Works
November 3 - December 23, 2016
Brussels -
Photographic Work from the Sixties
April 14 - June 2, 2012
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
New Paintings
April 14 - June 2, 2012
Paris - Beaubourg -
Dessins
January 9 - March 6, 2010
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
Jusqu’ici
October 27 - December 29, 2007
Paris - Beaubourg -
Préludes et après-ludes
October 28 - December 31, 2004
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1935 in Bologna, Italy |
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| Residence | Lives and works between Paris, Monte Carlo and Meina, Italy |
| Education | 1955 Académie des Beaux-Arts de Brera, Milan, Italy |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2022 | Valerio Adami, Galerie Templon, Paris, France Valerio Adami - Immagine e pensiero, Dep Art Gallery, Milan, Italy |
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| 2020 | Valerio Adami, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 | Camilla et Valerio Adami, Espace Jacques Villeglé, Saint Gratien, France The 80s, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
| 2018 | Adami : lignes de vie, Musée Jean Cocteau, Collection Séverin Wunderman, Menton, France |
| 2017 | Valerio Adami, Galleria L'Incontro, Chiari, Bs, Italy Valerio Adami - The Narrative Line, The Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2016 | Valerio Adami, Secession, Vienna, Austria Transfigurations, Chapelle Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Malo, France De la ligne à la couleur, Le Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France Valerio Adami, Galerie Daniel Templon Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Valerio Adami, Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy |
| 2015 | Great retrospective Valerio Adami’s 80th birthday, Turin Museum, Turin, Italy ; Mantua Museum, Mantua, Italy Valerio Adami, Centre d’art contemporain à cent mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan, France |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2022 | Collection Collective ACMCM, à cent mètres du centre du monde, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Perpignan, France |
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| 2021 | No More Boring Art! The Other Side, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium Narrative Figuration 60s – 70s, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York City, USA Dérives, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, France |
| 2020 | Figurez-vous… Adami, Erro, Guyomard, Klassen, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France “Nous sommes faits de l’étoffe de nos rêves et notre petite vie est entourée de sommeil”, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, France Arte moltiplicata, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| 2019 | Un monde, un seul, pour demeure, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France Histoire de l’art cherche personnages…, CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Demons in Line, Team Gallery, New York City, USA The Pictionary individual, Harkawik, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2018 | Io sono una poesia. Parole sui muri e le arti negli anni Sessanta tra Modena e Reggio Emilia, Musei Civici di Modena, Modena, Italy Testimonianze - Composizioni Materiche E Oggettuali Dagli Anni ’60 Ad Oggi, Galleria d'Arte 2000 & Novecento, Reggio Emilia, Italy Pictures without Shadows - A selection from the Kemp Collection, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2017 | 40th anniversary. Twentieth Century Art Collection. 1977-2017, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Alicante (MACA), Alicante, Spain HOP!, Musée d'Ixelles, Bruxelles, Belgium Exposition de l’été, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, France Giugno Italiano, nm>contemporary, Monaco, Monaco Landscapes. Declinazioni in giallo e in verde, Galleria d'Arte 2000 & Novecento, Reggio Emilia, Italy Nummeriert Und Handsigniert - Ausgewaehlte Graphik Und Skulptur, Die Galerie – Frankfurt, Germany Georges Pompidou, Une aventure du regard et de l’art, Domaine national de Chambord, France La Nouvelle Figuration Européenne : 1964 - 1976, Galerie du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Mondalité, Fondation Boghossian-Villa Empain, Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 2016 | ROSSO, Anna Maria Consadori, Milan, Italy Sternstunde - 100 Zeichnungen, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany Italia Pop. L’Arte Negli Anni Del Boom, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Parme, Italy Minimenta 2016, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, France Perdidos en la ciudad/ La vida urbana en las colecciones del IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain Italian Pop, Tornabuoni Art London, London, UK Adami, Del Pezzo, Schifano, Tadini (50 anni dopo…), Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy Juste pour le plaisir (A&B), Centre d’art contemporain à cent mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan, France |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
| Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany | |
| Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany | |
| Musée des beaux-arts, Bruxelles, Belgium | |
| Musée d’art moderne, Liège, Belgium | |
| Museum van Heedendaagse Kunst, Gand, Belgium | |
| IVAM – Museo de Arte Moderno, Valence, Spain | |
| Fondaccion Miro, Barcelone, Spain |
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Press
Il Giornale Dell'Arte - juillet 2022
Alla Galleria Templon, Valerio Adami
Les Inrockuptibles - mai 2022
Valerio Adami
Slash-Paris.com - septembre 2019
Valerio Adami : Les années 80
Connaissance des arts - septembre 2019
Valerio Adami, nouveau mythe de la peinture
Arts Libre (La Libre Belgique) - novembre 2016
Chez Templon, fringant jubilaire : La poésie d'Adami
Claude Lorent
News
Valerio Adami
Philippe Cognée
Gérard Garouste
Pierre et Gilles
« MOI JE » – GROUP SHOW
Biennale de l’UNAM (Union Méditerranéenne pour l’Art Moderne)
Château-Musée Grimaldi, Haut-de-Cagnes – Place du Château, Cagnes-sur-Mer
From June 12, 2021 to January 3, 2022
The UNAM Biennale gathers around forty artists who illustrate with originality and talent their vision of “Moi, Je” and its present and future challenges in the mutations of an obviously dangerous society and withdrawal into oneself.
Valerio Adami
FIGUREZ-VOUS… ADAMI, ERRO, GUYOMARD, KLASEN – GROUP SHOW
From December 12, 2020 to March 7, 2021,Palais des Arts et du Festival, 2 Boulevard Wilson, 35800 Dinard, France
The exhibition is dedicated to the artistic movement of Narrative Figuration. It brings together four masters of contemporary art, Adami, Erró, Guyomard and Klasen, whose works are preserved in hundreds of museums around the world and by great collectors.
Valerio Adami
CAMILLA & VALERIO ADAMI – GROUP SHOW
ESPACE JACQUES VILLEGLE, SAINT GRATIEN, FRANCEFrom 03/10/2019 to 07/12/2019
Valerio Adami
ITALIAN WEEK “LA BELLEZZA” – SOLO SHOW
ARRONDISSEMENT TOWN HALL, PARIS, FRANCE From 24/06/2019 to 2/07/2019
Valerio Adami
ADAMI : LIGNES DE VIE – SOLO SHOW
MUSEE JEAN COCTEAU, MENTON, FRANCE From 02/06/2018 to 05/11/2018
Museum Jean Cocteau in Menton presents a major exhibition of Valerio Adami, gathering a body of paintings, drawings and photographs from the late 1960s until today. Born in Bologna in 1935, Adami is a painter, a drawer and a printmaker. After his first solo exhibition in Milano (1957) when he was still very largely influenced by Roberto Matta’s surrealism, the artist soon followed the path of European New Figuration and Narrative Figuration Oscillating in between line and colour as well as in between drawing and painting, Valerio Adami’s work can be perceived as a kind of writing in itself, an exploration through mythology, poetry and the intimacy of an artist. The museum Jean Cocteau / collection Séverin Wunderman, proposes a journey through the artist’s half a century creation.
Valerio Adami
GEORGES POMPIDOU, UNE AVENTURE DU REGARD ET DE L’ART – GROUP SHOW
DOMAINE NATIONAL DE CHAMBORD, FRANCEFrom 6/18/2017 to 11/19/2017
In 2017, Chambord collaborates with the Centre Pompidou, as part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the institution with an exhibition dedicated to Georges Pompidou, the former French president and creator of the Centre Pompidou. The exhibition will bring together more than 90 artworks – rarely displayed – by 67 artists, including Adami, Arman, César.
Valerio Adami
MONDIALITé – GROUP SHOW
FONDATION BOGHOSSIAN-VILLA EMPAIN, BELGIUM, BRUSSELS From 4/19/2017 to 8/27/2017
Mondialité focuses on Edouard Glissant and his inspiring call for a global dialogue that does not erase local cultures. In our current moment, there is much to remind of the international debates swirling around cosmopolitanism at the beginning of the 20th century. Curator : Hans Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza Artistes : Adonis, Valerio Adami, Etel Adnan, Sophia Al-Maria, Kader Attia, Miquel Barcelo, Alighiero Boetti, Daniel Boyd, Edith Dekyndt, Manthia Diawara, Simone Fattal, Geneviève Gallego,Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Koo Jeong A, Wifredo Lam, Ranjana Leyendecker, Roberto Matta, Steve McQueen, Otolith Group, Walter Price, Raqs Media Collective, Adrián Villar Rojas et Antonio Segui, Sylvie Sema.
Valerio Adami
VALERIO ADAMI – SOLO SHOW
SECESSION, VIENNA, AUSTRIA From 7/01/2016 to 08/28/2016
The illustrator and painter Valerio Adami is widely regarded as an eminent representative of Italian Pop art. His exhibition in the Secession’s Grafisches Kabinett is the artist’s first solo show in Austria and showcases a series of paintings from his less well-known early oeuvre. Created before 1964, these works stand out for the particularly dynamic interplay between expressive abstraction and stylized figuration.
