VALERIO ADAMI
b. 1935, ItalyValerio 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.
His work was seen as a foil to Abstract Expressionism, being regarded as a form of Neo-Figuration. Because of his use of recognisable imagery, Adami is linked to the Narrative Figuration (French Pop) movement, popular in France in the 1960s with artists like Jacques Monory, Erró, and Gérard Schlossler.
Early Years
Raised in Bologna, Adami studied drawing and painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan (1951—1954) when he was only 16, after having previously received encouragement from Oskar Kokoschka in Venice. Adami then went to Paris in 1955, where he met Wilfredo Lam and Roberto Matta, and initially became interested in Surrealism and Expressionism.
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Adami’s work is held in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo d’Arte Moderna, Rome; and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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