Valerio Adami

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Born in 1935 in Bologna (Italy), Valerio Adami is an Italian painter and engraver famous for his paintings made up of flattened of pure and acid colors circulated by a thick black line recalling the spirit of the drawings of comics. He shares his life between France and Italy. After studying painting at the Brera Academy, at & nbsp; Milan, & nbsp; between & nbsp; 1951 & nbsp; and & nbsp; 1954, Valerio Adami gives first canvases which are attached to the Expressionism but, very quickly, he finds a clean style, made of forms clearly surrounded by a thick line and treated with flattened of pure colors (surreal influence which remains underlying in his work) and without shadows. Durant of his first trip to Paris In 1955, he met the Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Matta. During his first personal exhibition in Milan in 1957, we see that his works were strongly inspired by Matta's surrealism. At the end of the 1960s, Adami asserted himself as one of the representatives of the movement of the new figuration. It develops and then definitively establishes its formal system: its characters and objects are made up of clear and colorful shapes surrounded by a thick line. After its installation in Paris in 1970, the Museum of Modern Art devoted an exhibition to it. The Georges Pompidou Center will also be in 1985, followed by the Grand Palais in 2008.

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