The painter Adami Valerio was born in Bologna on March 17, 1935. His expressionist art is influenced by the work of Francis Bacon and then by abstract and gestural painting, with the problem of the recovery of figuration resolved according to the forms of American Pop Art and in particular of Roy Lichtenstein. His works are a sort of fantastic and ironic comic book where banal objects are arranged in depersonalized interiors, taken as symbols, even sexual ones, of modernity. The style is distinguished by the use of a chromatic material in flat, smooth and continuous drafts, within the clear black enclosures of the design. At the age of four he moved with his family to Milan during the war years where he made his first drawings which in fact represent the ruins of houses devastated by bombing. Still very young, Adami began painting in Venice with Felice Carena. In 1951 two fundamental encounters for the artist took place in his life as an artist. He met and attended Oscar Kokoschka and began studying drawing with Achille Funi at the Brera Academy in Milan. In 1952 he went to Paris for the first time, where he moved temporarily. From 1960 he began a series of long stays for Adami that will take him, among other things, to London (1958) and New York (1966), the city where he will return on several occasions, to Cuba (1967), to Caracas (1969), in Bavaria (1974), in India (1977), in Israel (1979), in Tokyo (1983), in Scandinavia (1988), in Argentina (1994). These trips are fundamental for the painter's artistic activity. In fact, he makes new friends: the writer Carlos Fuentes, the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the painters Saul Steinberg, Richard Lindner and Matta, Octavio Paz and Italo Calvino and Luciano Berio. He exhibited his works at the Jewish Museum of New York in 1968, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1970, then at the Museum of Mexico City, in Jerusalem, at the Center Georges Pompidou in 1985, in Tel Aviv, in Buenos Aires ... Since then, there have been numerous personal and group exhibitions in public museums and private galleries, accompanied by particularly important catalogs, with texts by critics, writers and philosophers. There are numerous commissions to Adami to carry out works in public spaces. With his brother Giancarlo he made the film "Vacations in the desert" in 1971. He is a member of the Collège International de Philosophie. In 1997 he created the European Drawing Foundation in Meina, on Lake Maggiore. Valerio Adami lives between Paris and Meina, on Lake Maggiore.
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