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, 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, 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, TEMPLON, 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
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.
Valerio Adami
TRANSFIGURATIONS – SOLO SHOW
CHAPELLE SAINT-SAUVEUR, SAINT-MALO, FRANCE From 06/18/2016 to 10/09/2016
This major exhibition will bring together more than 70 works – paintings, drawings, photographs – in the centuries-old walls of the Chapelle Saint-Sauveur from 18 June to 9 October 2016. It will also include many additional activities, including the organization of the “Contest Valerio Adami, “in the manner of Jan Voss contest, which attracted many inhabitants of the Saint-Malo, last year. Regularly exhibited in very important galleries, the works of Valerio Adami have long since joined the contemporary artistic heritage. They are found in the cities and most prestigious collections in Europe and abroad.
Valerio Adami
DE LA LIGNE à LA COULEUR – SOLO SHOW
LE MUSEE DE l’HOSPICE SAINT-ROCHE, ISSOUDUN, FRANCEFrom 06/18/2016 to 09/11/2016
The Museum of the Hospice Saint-Roche of Issoudun devotes its exhibition spaces to the Artiste Valeria Adami from June 18 to September 11, 2016 by showing 80 works, photographs, drawings as well as paintings from the end of the 1960s to present.
Valerio Adami is one of the main figures of the Narrative Figuration movement whose works are inspired by photographic documents and the style of comic books. Flat color blocks framed by a black line characterize his paintings. The reduced drawings show fragments that associate personal symbolic motives, memories of journeys, some of his experiences in the fields of music, theater or literature.
