I don’t think about it too much, the hand moves by itself, when you move your hand this point becomes a line and the fact that it becomes a line then means that this line must still represent something
Valerio Adami (Bologna, 1935) talks about his painting, about point and line. Of the adherence between sign and figure within a language that not only belongs to the artist, but to art as such.
With thanks to Simone Bani for filming and editing
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