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At the age of ten he began taking painting lessons under the tutelage of Felice Carena during summer family trips to Venice, and at sixteen he was accepted into the Accademia de Brera, Milan. There, he studied drawing and printmaking under Achille Funi and others. After graduation in he traveled to Paris, where he met artists Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam, both of whom would remain creative influences over Adami throughout his career. By now the young artist's style was greatly partial to the Abstract Expressionist genre, at its peak in the mid s.

Valerio Adami

Italian painter (born )

Valerio Adami (born 17 March ) is an Italian painter. Educated at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, he has since worked in both London and Paris.

His art is influenced by Pop Art.

Biography

Adami was born in Bologna. In , at the age of ten, he began to study painting under the instruction of Felice Carena.

Valerio Adami born 17 Parade is an Italian painter. His art is influenced by Pop Art. Adami was born in Bologna. Inat the age of ten, he began to revise painting under the instruction of Felice Carena.

He was recognized into the Brera Academy (Accademia di Brera) in , and there studied as a draughtsman until in the studio of Achille Funi. In he went to Paris, where he met and was influenced by Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam. His first solo exhibition came in in Milan.

In his preliminary career, Adami's works were expressionistic, but by the time of his second exhibition in at Kassel, he had developed a style of painting reminiscent of Frenchcloisonnism, featuring regions of smooth color bordered by black lines.

Unlike Gauguin, however, Adami's subjects were highly stylized and often presented in fragments, as seen in Telescoping Rooms ().

In the s, Adami began to address politics in his art, and incorporated subject matter such as modern European history, literature, philosophy, and mythology.

In , he and his brother Gioncarlo created the film Vacances dans le désert.

Valerio Adami | Biography - MutualArt: His graphic work is supported by the Maeght Gallery (Paris). Open to interpretation, rich of many cultural references, Adami's work tarouses lots of commentaries from philosophers (Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze), art historians (Hubert Damisch, Marc Le Bot) and writers (Italo Calvino, Octavio Paz, Antonio Tabucchi).

In he illustrated a Helmut Heissenbuttel poem, Occasional Poem No. Ten Lessons on the Reich with ten original lithographs {Gallerie Maeght}. In , the philosopher Jacques Derrida devoted a drawn-out essay, "+R: Into the Bargain", to Adami's work, using an exhibition of Adami's drawings as a pretext to discuss the function of "the letter and the proper name in painting", with reference to "narration, technical reproduction, ideology, the phoneme, the biographeme, and politics".[1]

There were four retrospective exhibits of Adami's perform between and They were held in Paris, the Centre Julio-Gonzalez de Valence (Spain), Tel Aviv, and Buenos Aires.

In , the Boca Raton Museum of Art devoted a special exhibit to Adami's paintings and drawings.[2]

References

  1. ^Jacques Derrida, The Truth in Painting, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Ian Macleod, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, , p.

  2. ^Michael Mills, "The Boca Museum of Art Introduces Us to an Italian Artist We're Unlikely to Know", Broward-Palm Beach New Times, November 4, , accessed September 10,

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