Valerio Adami

Born in Bologna on 17th March 1935, Valerio Adami is an italian painter. At first he dedicates himself to espressionist painting, then abstract painting and in the end to Pop Art, inspired by Roy Lichtenstein, making a kind of fantastic and ironinc comic strip, that presents depersonalised spaces with objects symbols of modernity, made with a flat, smooth and continuous colour applications. In 1945 he attends the Accademia di Brera in Milan, the following year he moves to Paris, he works between London and Paris from 1961 to 1964 and in 1967 in New York he makes some canvas exposed at the Biennale of Venice the following year. Adami works in Paris, where he inaugurates an anthological exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 1985 and two panels for the hall of the Gare d’Austerlitz in 1987. From 1991 to 1998 he partecipates to some retrospectives in Madrid, Siena, Bochum, Buenos Aires. His last exhibition dates back to 2013 at the MAR in Ravenna.