Biography from Boca Raton Museum of Art:
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Valerio Adami is an important European artist, who first came to
international prominence in the 1960s with Nouvelle Figuration, the
French intellectual version of Pop art. Adami’s work is steeped
in political, social and moral mythologies.
Adami’s images
embrace themes that have preoccupied the artist for more than 50 years:
literature, travels, poetry, music, politics and painting. After
more than half a century of working creatively, Adami has evolved his
own iconography, an ingenious pictorial language that embraces both
past and present, in which strange creatures keep company with famous
faces from history: the French Revolutionary politician Robespierre,
the author James Joyce and the composer Gustav Mahler.
His famous pop art colors and flat forms with their thick black
contours evoke the appearance of cartoons. Yet his everyday
imagery plays a fundamental role in conveying his many social,
philosophical and literary references. Here we see Shakespeare,
Nietzsche, Claudel, Derrida in works which develop like poems or
reminiscences of a lifetime: hotel rooms, sights of the East, home
life, scenes of theater and the street.
Important retrospectives
of his artwork have been in Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou
(1985), in Valencia, Spain (1990), Sienna, Italy (1994),Tel Aviv
(1997), Buenos Aires (1998), Athens (Frissiras Museum 2004) and Milan
(2008). |
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