Milan, at Dep Art Gallery a retrospective exhibition on Valerio Adami

Milan ’s Dep Art Gallery presents from February 1 to April 14, 2022 the exhibition Valerio Adami - Image and Thought, curated by Gianluca Ranzi. A retrospective that aims to retrace the main stages of the artistic activity of Valerio Adami (Bologna, 1935) through twenty-eight works from 1970 to the present.

The title of the exhibition,Image and Thought, refers to the contamination between mental processes and the unconscious, with images of everyday life and high and low culture, through photographic and filmic procedures. This can be seen in the works on display, in the letters and words drifting across the canvas, in the dilated images, iconic traces, transference and repetition.

Also on display will be a selection of works representing the different moments of the artist’s research, who has been active since the late 1950s in the sphere of New Figuration.

The international events of those years can be found in the experiences of Adami, who was born in 1935 in Bologna and now lives between Paris, his city of choice, and Lake Maggiore. Graduating from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1955 and then traveling through Europe, the United States, Latin America and India, the artist combines these stimuli with a fascination for the painting of Oskar Kokoschka and Francis Bacon, Surrealism and Giorgio de Chirico, influenced by the English and American pop wave and soon developing his own original synthetic and fragmented figuration, played out on flat backgrounds, defined through a sharp sign-drawing. Thus Adami cut out sharp black outlines without chiaroscuro and inserted words and initials into the work.

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Image: Dep Art Gallery, installation of the exhibition Valerio Adami. Image and thought. Courtesy of Dep Art Gallery and Bruno Bani.

Milan, at Dep Art Gallery a retrospective exhibition on Valerio Adami

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