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Valerio Adami
Ripensando la realtà
Milan, Dep Art Gallery
6 march 2025 - 17 may 2025
Dep Art Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition “Valerio Adami Rethinking Reality”, curated by Lorenzo Madaro. Artworks from the 1970s to the 2000s will be on display, alternating between travel scenes and paintings in which the artist rethinks lived reality, such as the majestic painting “Mnemosine machine à écrire et violon” from 1987.
The exhibition, opening on the occasion of Museo City Milano, includes a special section, created in collaboration with the Archivio Valerio Adami, and shows some of the artist’s private moments and his passion for travelling, especially for boats.
Valerio Adami
Paris, Tornabuoni Art
January 23, 2025 - March 22, 2025
From January 23, 2025 to March 22, 2025, Tornabuoni Art Paris presents an exhibition dedicated to the paintings of Valerio Adami featuring a selection of canvases that showcase some of the most iconic themes defining the artist’s prolific career, spanning from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Marking 90 years since Adami’s birth and five decades since his first French retrospective at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris in 1970, this exhibition revisits the artist’s evolving exploration of key motifs: tributes to fellow artists, interiors, travel and the theatrical realm.
Valerio Adami
L'arte del sogno
Milan, Ambrosiana Art Gallery
November 27, 2024 - January 31, 2025
From November 27, 2024 to January 31, 2025, the Ambrosiana Art Gallery presents “Valerio Adami. The Art of Dreaming”, an anthological exhibition dedicated to one of the most influential artists of our time. Curated by Andrea Poleschi and accompanied by a critical text by Rossella Farinotti, the exhibition includes about fifty works by Adami, from 1968 to the most recent works of 2024.
The theme of the dream is explored through a variety of visual and symbolic elements, inviting the viewer to reflect on the relationship between reality and imagination. Adami's works, characterized by sinuous lines and intense colors, present themselves as enigmas to be deciphered.
After the success of the recent retrospective at Palazzo Reale in Milan, Andrea Poleschi feels the need to re-examine Adami's work, proposing a selection of works that dialogue with each other, all dedicated to the dream. A bilingual catalogue (Italian-English) is planned with all the works on display.
Valerio Adami
Narrations 2020-24
Brussels, Templon Gallery
November 7 - December 21, 2024
Valerio Adami presents in Brussels a series of introspective and touching works created over the last four years. This exhibition offers an immersion in the artist's universe, where scenes of everyday life intertwine with various literary and artistic tributes.
The bright colors contrast with the apparent melancholy of his characters, and the themes of the works, sometimes crepuscular, address issues such as the finitude of man. Marked by the influence of his readings, his paintings challenge the laws of perspective, multiplying planes and vanishing points. From these complex compositions, Adami tries to bring out a "philosophical questioning of the verb". "I am a painter of representation", he explains, "every figure you see carries within itself a symbolism, a bit like a speech that never ends".
Oltre città. Utopie e realtà.
Da Le Courbusier a Gerhard Richeter.
L'arte del sogno
Firenze, Villa Bardini
26 september 2024 - 19 january 2025
Valerio Adami's work "HotelCapri" from 1967 is also present inside the exhibition "OltreCittà".Utopias and reality.From LeCorbusier to Gerhard Richter", scheduled in Florence, at VillaBardini, from 26th of September 2024 to the 19t of January 2025. This work fits perfectly into the context of a journey through themultiple artistic representations of the city, exploring the different urban identities and inviting visitors to reflect on the complexity of the urban theme.
As Georges Perec writes in "Species of spaces":“Don't try to find a definition of the city too quickly; it's no smallfeat, and there's a lot of chances of being wrong.” The exhibition offers a space to conceive the city as a living and dynamic organism,where eachwork becomes an invitation to explore desires,memories and visions of metropolises.
With 128 works by artists of the20th and 21st centuries,the visitor is guided on a journey that passes through sculpture, architecture,photography and other artistic forms,becoming a protagonist and spectator at the same time.Adami's "HotelCapri" enriches this narrative, inviting us to reflect on the relationship between the individual and the city.
Valerio Adami
Pittore di Idee
Palazzo Reale Milano
July 17 - September 22, 2024
The exhibition Valerio Adami. Pittore di Idee, curated by Marco Meneguzzo and produced by the Archive, was the occasion to celebrate Valerio Adami's 65-year career.
Forty years after his previous solo exhibition, Adami returned to the Palazzo Reale in Milan with a journey that includes over seventy canvases and fifty drawings.
From his first works, through the works of the sixties and seventies, such as Broken Egg, and the numerous literary portraits, up to his latest works, it has been possible to reconstruct the artist's decades-long career.
The exhibition was open to the public free of charge and welcomed over 20,000 visitors.
The exhibition catalogue is available on the SKIRA website .
