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Valerio Adami

VALERIO ADAMI

Rethinking reality Dep Art Gallery 7 March–17 May 2025 Milan
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Dep Art Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition Valerio Adami. Rethinking Reality, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, featuring a significant selection of works created between the 1970s and the 2000s. Through a succession of travel scenes, references to stories, and theatrical settings, the artist continually revisits his own life experiences, drawing inspiration from personal memories and encounters. In some paintings, Adami depicts himself (or a character) in the act of painting or typing, emphasizing the reflective process that permeates his entire oeuvre. A prime example of this approach is the monumental “Mnemosine machine à écrire et violon,” whose title and subject perfectly embody the exhibition’s central theme of reinterpreting reality through memory.

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Valerio Adami is an Italian painter and printmaker known for his fragmented scenes that allude to literary themes. Influenced by British and American Pop art and a little by French Cloisonnism, Adami’s works obliquely suggest parts of figurative images using shapes of flat, saturated colour bordered by black lines.

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GROUP EXHIBITION 20 Years Dep Art Gallery 24 June–19 December 2026 Milan
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Opening in Milan in 2006 with Mario Nigro’s solo exhibition Opere di Mario Nigro, Dep Art Gallery presents compelling artworks by modern and contemporary Italian and international artists. The gallery moved into its current location in Via Comelico, a former school with substantial exhibition spaces, in 2015. Dedicated to presenting contemporary Italian art, Dep Art Gallery has also been the Turi Simeti archive centre—archiving the artist’s legacy and producing a catalogue raisonne of artworks on canvas—since 2013.

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Dep Art Gallery contemporary art gallery in Milan Italy
Dep Art Gallery
Via Comelico, 40, Milan, Italy
+39 023 653 5620
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