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Valério Adami
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Italian
, born 1935)
Valério Adami
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Valério Adami
Ohne Titel,
1964
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Timeline
1935
Valerio Adami was born on the 17th March in Italy. His first drawings in Milan were of ruins; the bombing raids and skies lit up by incendiary flares had left an enduring impression in his early years.
1946 - 1955
Attends the Leo XIII Jesuit College in Milan. Begins painting at the studio of Felice Carena in Venice. Meets Ezra Pound and Oscar Kokoschka. Academy of Brera in Milan for 5 years.
1952
Makes his first trip to Paris where he meets Matta and Wilfredo Lam who become life-long friends.
1956
Makes his first trip to London, where he meets Francis Bacon and William Scott.
1961
Participates at the Italian Artists Exhibition at the Jewish Museum of New York.
1962
Roland Penrose invites him to exhibit at the ICA in London. Marries Camilla. Meets regularly with Jim Dine and Richard Hamilton.
1964
Invited to show his work at the Documenta III in Kassel.
1966
Spends his winter in New York, taking up residence at the Chelsea Hotel. Hosted by Cuba, spends 3 months in Havana.
1968
The Venice Biennale dedicates a room to his work. The catalogue includes a text by his friend Carlos Fuentes, Líneas para Adami. Features in Dada Surrealism and their Heritage at the MOMA in New York.
1969
Stays in Caracas for a major one-man show at the Museo de Bellas Artes. Befriends Octavio Paz in Mexico City.
1970
Retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. Represented by Galerie Maeght in Paris.
1971
Produces a full-length film Vacanze nel deserto, whose cast includes Camilla, Erró and Dino Buzzati. In Paris, befriends philosopher Jacques Derrida. Designs poster for Glas, which is to become an icon of deconstructionism. Derrida dedicates to his work the essay + R (pas dessus le marché).
1976
First trip to India followed by a long journey through Scandinavia.
1977
Spends a lengthy time in Mexico following an exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. The Israel Museum hosts a retrospective. Spends the summer in Jerusalem. 1980 Takes up residence in the Principality of Monaco. Travels to Greece. Italo Calvino writes Quattro fiabe d’Esopo per Valerio Adami.
1985
Major retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Stops dating his paintings.
1988
The French State commissions a portrait of the composer Pierre Boulez. Also produces a large-scale fresco for the façade of the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
1990
Major retrospective at the IVAM Centre Julio Gonzáles in Valencia. Octavio Paz writes La línea narrativa, dedicated to his work.
1992
Makes four large wall paintings for the Park Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo designed by the architect Kenzo Tange. Has a one-man show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel.
1996 - 1998
Retrospectives in Florence and in Bochum.
1998
Inauguration of an exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. An Italian edition of his notebooks is published. Sets up the Fondazione Europea del Disegno, in Meina, on Lake Maggiore.
2001
Prepares the Opera stage for Der Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner. His book Dessiner. La gomme et le crayon, is published by Editions Galilée.
2003
Makes two large wall paintings for the new Mandarin Hotel at Columbus Circus in New York.
Gives a series of lectures in France and Europe on Cézanne, in the painter’s studio in Aix-en-Provence; on Ferdinand Léger at Musée Chagall in Nice; on drawing at the University of Valencia.
2006
Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon.
2008
French philosopher Michel Onfray writes Le chiffre de la peinture. L’œuvre de Valerio Adami.
2009
Invited as ‘master of drawing’ to give a course on the metaphysics of the body during the Schwäbischer Kunstsommer in Irsee (Germany).
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Exhibitions
2022
Immagine e Pensiero, Dep Art Gallery, Milano, Italy (solo)
Galerie Templon, Paris, France (solo)
2020
Galerie Haas, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2019
Camilla et Valerio Adami, Espace Jacques Villeglé, Saint Gratien France (solo)
Les Années ‘80, Galerie Templon, Paris, France (solo)
2018
Valerio Adami, Galleria d’Arte l’incontro, Chiari, Italy (solo)
Valerio Adami Enchanteur, enchanté, Centre Cristel Editeur d’Art, Saint-Malo, France (solo)
Adami Ligne(s) de vie, Musée Jean Cocteau, Menton, France (solo)
Valerio Adami, The Narrative Line, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, Italy (solo)
La Nouvelle Figuration Européenne: 1964 - 1976, Galerie du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Suisse
2017
Valerio Adami, Metafisiche e Metamorfosi, Hungary Academy, Rome, Italy (solo)
Galleria André, Rome, Italy (solo)
2016
De l’oeil a’ la main, et son detournement, Centre d’art contemporain de Chateauvert, Chateau- 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
Transfigurations, Chapelle Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Malo, France (solo)
De la ligne à la couleur, Le Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roche, Issoudun, France (solo)
Adami dal 1964 al 1999, Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy (solo)
Valerio Adami, Recent Works, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2015
Great retrospective Valerio Adami’s 80th birthday, Turin Museum, Turin, Italy.and Mantua Museum, Mantua, Italy (solo)
Valerio Adami, Centre d’art contemporain à cent mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan, France (solo)
189th RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
Valerio Adami, Centre d’art graphique de la Métairie Bruyère, Parly, France (solo)
Valerio Adami, Disegnare, Dipingere, Galleria André, Roma, Italy (solo)
2014
Figuration narrative, Adami, Erro, Klasen, Monory, Morteyrol, Velickovic, Atelier Gabrielle, Salernes, France
Estampes et œuvres sur papier, Galerie Atelier 28, Lyon, France
2013
Mosaïques, Ravenna Museum of Art, Ravenna, Italy (solo)
Valerio Adami, Aquarelles, Galerie Biasutti, Turin, Italy (solo)
Collection LGR, MAMAC, Nice, France
2012
Tableaux et dessins, Galerie Hass Ag, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
New Painting – Photographic Work from the Sixties, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
Figure nel tempo, Galleria Tega, Milan, Italy (solo)
Œuvres graphiques, Nev, Ankara, Turkey (solo)
Valerio Adami, les années 1960, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, France (solo)
Drawings, Galleria Usher arte, Lucca, Italy (solo)
Galerie IUFM, 11th contemporary art biennale of Lyon, Lyon, France (solo)
Opere 1971 – 2010, Museo Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce, Italy (solo)
2011
Quadri di lettura, Padiglione Italia, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (solo)
Paintings, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca, Italy (solo)
Watercolours, Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca, Italy (solo)
Dessins, Impasse Beaubourg, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
2010
Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland (solo)
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Miami, United States (solo)
Arte Svelata, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Chicago, United States
Valerio Adami: Postlude, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Passion d’art, Collection privées Musée Éphémère, Montélimar, France
Hot Spots, touring exhibition: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; Milan, Turin, Italy ; Los Angeles, United States ; Zürich, Switzerland
Fixsterne: 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany
Pop, Polit und Pin ups. Pop Art Grafik aus der Sammlung Beck, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim- Bissingen, Bietigheim- Bissingen, Germany
2009
Riccardo Licata e gli amici di Venezia e Parigi, Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
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
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2007
Arte italiana 1968–2007 Pittura, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Valerio Adami, Jusqu’ici, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Artists and Their Models, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Selecció del fons de la galeria, Art Vall, Andorra la Vella, Andora
2006
Adami d’après Adami, The Museum of Contemporary, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
Italian Pop, Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2005
Anthropography III, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Galerie Marlbourough Madrid, Spain
Musée Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
Valerio Adami : preludes et apres-ludes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
2004
Valerio Adami, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece (solo)
Suggestioni astratte e figurative, Galleria d’Arte 2000 & Novecento, Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy
Anthropogeography – The Human Figure at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Valerio Adami, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Collective exhibition at Galerie Serge Laurent, Paris, France
2002
Solo exhibitions at:
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
2000
Une ville – Une collection, Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée, La Louvière, 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)
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
1989
Paints Valmy, a monumental painting ordered for the bicentennial celebration of the French Revolution; as well as a large fresco dedicated to french music, from Debussy to Messiaen, for the Théâtre du Châelet in Paris, France
1986
Paints two monumental pieces for the Gare d'Austerlitz in Paris, France
13th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1985
Retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France; text by Dore Ashton, G.F. Lyotard and Alfred Pacquement (solo)
1983
Valerio Adami, Fuji Television, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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
1977
Documenta IV, Kassel, Germany
1975
Designs a poster for Glas de Jacques Derrida
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.
1968
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1964
I Massacri privati, Galleria Schwartz, Milan, Italy
Documenta III, Kassel, Germany
1961
Italian Artists, Cambridge Art Association, Boston, United States
1960
Young Italian Painters, Kamakura Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
1957
First solo exhibition in Milan, Italy (solo)
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Public Collections
Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo (Spain)
Musée de Strasbourg (France)
Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence (France)
Musée Cantini d’Art Moderne de Marseille (France)
Musée d’Art Moderne de Grenoble (France)
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
Collection de l’État Français
Musée National d’art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
Rotterdam Museum, Rotterdam (Holland)
Museum van Heedendaagse Kunst, Gand (Belgium)
Musée d’Art Moderne, Liège (Belgium)
Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels (Belgium)
Fondacción Miro, Barcelona (Spain)
IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia (Spain)
Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne (France)
Museo de Arte Moderno, Caracas (Venezuela)
Museum of Modern Art, Pittsburgh (USA)
Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis (USA)
Frissiras Museum, Athens (Greece)
Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Maija and Urpo Lahtinen Foundation, Villa Urpo, Tampere (Finland)
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki (Finland)
Museo d’Arte moderna, Lissone (Italy)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bergamo (Italy)
Museo d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Reale, Milan (Italy)
Museo d’Arte Moderna, Rome (Italy)
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (Germany)
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, München (Germany)
Musée d’Art contemporaine, Montecarlo (Monaco)
Mc.Crory Corporation, New York (USA)
Musée Picasso, Antibes (France)
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Literature
2004
Valerio Adami : preludes et apres lude, Edouard Glissant, Editions Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Valerio Adami : Stanze Museo Villa de Cedri, Bellinzona
2000
Adami : les couleurs et les mors, Editions du Cherche-Midi, Paris