Details:
Signed and titled on the reverse
Authentication document on picture signed by the artist. Archive number 505
The drawing related to this painting is published in the 2011 catalog "Valerio Adami. Teoria e pratica dell'arte", published by Usher arte, p. 46, and again in the catalogue of th exbibition (2013) Valerio Adami Allegorie, at Museo
The title of this painting refers to a painting by Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901) that depicts a real place: the Viamala. Literally "bad path", identifies a narrow gorge along the course of the Hinterrhein, in Switzerland, and the ancient muletrack that runs through it. This gorge, with rock walls up to 300 meters high and a very narrow bottom, was in the past the main obstacle on the road that connected southern Germany with Lombardy through the Alpine passes.