Dep Art Gallery traces the career of Valerio Adami, from the 1970s to the present day

On view until April 14, 2022 at Dep Art Gallery in Milan is the exhibition Valerio Adami - Image and Thought, curated by Gianluca Ranzi.

On display are twenty-eight works by Valerio Adami (Bologna, 1935) selected from recent large canvases and works from the 1970s with the aim of introducing visitors to the production of the artist, among the protagonists of Italian and European art. The exhibition includes works, travels, portraits, and Greek myths that present the different moments of Adami’s research, active since the late 1950s in the sphere of New Figuration.

Graduating from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1955, he traveled through Europe, the United States, Latin America and India, fascinated by the art of Oskar Kokoschka and Francis Bacon, Surrealism and Giorgio De Chirico, yet also drawing on English and American pop, although he soon developed his own original style based on flat backgrounds, defined through sharp sign-drawing. Adami cuts out sharp black outlines without chiaroscuro and inserts words and initials into the work.

The title of the exhibition refers precisely to this contamination between mental processes and the unconscious, with images of everyday life and high and low culture, through photographic and filmic procedures. As is well noted in the works in the exhibition that trace more than fifty years of the artist’s career, from the 1970s to 2021.

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Dep Art Gallery traces the career of Valerio Adami, from the 1970s to the present day

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