Valerio Adami is a modern art classic. His works are deeply rooted in the humanist tradition of Europe and focus on human existence and cultural identity. Some consider him a modern philosopher who expresses his thoughts through colour and shape. Both his life and art were shaped by long journeys around the world and his acquaintance with various artists and intellectuals
Comic art and pop art are said to have had an enormous influence on Adami’s work. A series created during his stay in New York in 1968 caused his work to be labelled as “European pop art” for some time. In the 1970s, Adami’s style changed: he started using colours to create an atmosphere while commenting, connoting, and psychologising within his paintings. In 1964 and 1977 he took part in the documenta and from 1970 he received retrospectives of his work in major museums around the globe. In 2005 Adami founded the Fondazione europea del disegno – Fondation Adami in Meina, Italy.
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1951-1954 studies at Accademia di Brera, Mailand
Solo exhibitions
2018 Valerio Adami, Galleria d’Arte l’incontro, Chiari, Italy
Valerio Adami Enchanteur, enchanté, Centre Cristel Editeur d’Art, Saint-Malo, France
Adami Ligne(s) de vie, Musée Jean Cocteau, Menton, France
2017 Valerio Adami, Metafisiche e Metamorfosi, Hungary Academy, Rome, Italy
Galleria André, Rome, Italy
Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, Italy
Valerio Adami, The Narrative Line, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
2016 Transfigurations, Chapelle Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Malo, France
De la ligne à la couleur, Le Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roche, Issoudun, France
Adami dal 1964 al 1999, Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy
Valerio Adami, Recent Works, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Great retrospective Valerio Adami’s 80th birthday, Turin Museum, Turin, Italy.and Mantua Museum, Mantua, Italy
Valerio Adami, Centre d’art contemporain à cent mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan, France
2014 Valerio Adami, Disegnare, Dipingere, Galleria André, Roma, Italy
Valerio Adami, Centre d’art graphique de la Métairie Bruyère, Parly, France
2013 Mosaïques, Ravenna Museum of Art, Ravenna, Italy
Valerio Adami, Aquarelles, Galerie Biasutti, Turin, Italy
2012 Tableaux et dessins, Galerie Hass Ag, Zürich, Switzerland
New Painting – Photographic Work from the Sixties, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Figure nel tempo, Galleria Tega, Milan, Italy
Œuvres graphiques, Nev, Ankara, Turkey
Valerio Adami, les années 1960, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, France
2011 Quadri di lettura, Padiglione Italia, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Paintings, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca, Italy
Watercolours, Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca, Italy
Opere 1971 – 2010, Museo Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce, Italy
Galerie IUFM, 11th contemporary art biennale of Lyon, Lyon, France
2010 Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Miami, United States
Dessins, Impasse Beaubourg, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2009 Valerio Adami: Postlude, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
2008 Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
2007 Valerio Adami, Jusqu’ici, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2006 Adami d’après Adami, The Museum of Contemporary, Lisbon, Portugal
2004 Valerio Adami, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Valerio Adami : preludes et apres-ludes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2002 Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Marlborough in Monaco: Translation of his books at the Editions Galilée in Paris under the title ‘Dessiner Exposition personnelle de dessins’
Galerie Marlborough in New York, USA
Galerie Serge Laurent in Paris, France
1998 Retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1997 Retrospective in Tel Aviv, Israel
1996 Institute of Design, Foundation Adami : texts by Daniel Arasse, Luciano Berio, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Dupin, Carlos Funentes, etc. (éditions Skira, Milan)
1994 Retrospective at Sienne, in the salles du Palazoo Publico and the Magazzini del Sale
Exhibition at Galerie Lelong in Paris, France
1990 Retrospective at the Centre Julio-Gonzalez de Valence in Spain; preface by Octavo Paz
1985 Retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France; text by Dore Ashton, G.F. Lyotard and Alfred Pacquement
1983 Valerio Adami, Fuji Television, Tokyo, Japan
1970 Solo exhibition at L’ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and at the Galerie Adrien-Maeght, where he will exhibit regularly. The catalogue is prefaced by Jacques Dupin.
1957 First solo exhibition in Milan, Italy
Group exhibitions
2019 Works for $2,500 & under, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York
LA FIGURATION NARRATIVE, MARCEL STROUK Galerie Rive Gauche, paris
New Year shop and 2019 special offer !, Galerie Estampe
2018 #ArtWiseUp: For Tennis Lovers, ArtWise
2017 La Nouvelle Figuration Européenne: 1964 – 1976, Galerie du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Suisse
2016 De l’oeil a’ la main, et son detournement, Centre d’art contemporain de Chateauvert, Cha-teau- vert, France
Espace, Espaces!, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Italian Pop Tuornabuoni Art, London, United Kingdom
The Silo, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, United States
2015 189th RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 Figuration narrative, Adami, Erro, Klasen, Monory, Morteyrol, Velickovic, Atelier Gabriel-le, Salernes, France
Estampes et œuvres sur papier, Galerie Atelier 28, Lyon, France
2013 Collection LGR, MAMAC, Nice, France
2010 Arte Svelata, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy
2009 Riccardo Licata e gli amici di Venezia e Parigi, Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
Fixsterne: 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany
Hot Spots, touring exhibition: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; Milan, Turin, Italy ; Los Angeles, United States ; Zürich, Switzerland
Passion d’art, Collection privées Musée Éphémère, Montélimar, France
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, Museum of Contempo-rary Art of Chicago, Chicago, United States
2008 La Figuration narrative, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Signe écriture signe, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Liège, Belgium
Time & Place, Milano–Torino 1958–1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Camilla et Valério Adami, Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon’s house, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France
2007 Arte italiana 1968–2007 Pittura, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2006 Selecció del fons de la galeria, Art Vall, Andorra la Vella, Andora
Italian Pop, Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Artists and Their Models, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
2005 Anthropography III, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Galerie Marlbourough Madrid, Spain
Musée Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
2004 Suggestioni astratte e figurative, Galleria d’Arte 2000 & Novecento, Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy
2003 Collective exhibition at Galerie Serge Laurent, Paris, France
Anthropogeography – The Human Figure at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Valerio Adami, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Une ville – Une collection, Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée, La Louvière, France
1996 Jacques Dupin, Carlos Funentes, etc. (éditions Skira, Milan)
1978 Le Disque, médium artistique : du futurisme à l’art conceptuel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1968 Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, MoMA, New York
1964 I Massacri privati, Galleria Schwartz, Milan, Italy
1961 Italian Artists, Cambridge Art Association, Boston, United States
1960 Young Italian Painters, Kamakura Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan