Adami – Clermont-Ferrand
Adami
Born in Bologna in 1935, Valerio Adami is a key figure in the Figuration Narrative movement. His paintings are characterized by flat tints of color framed by black, and evoke travel, music, literature and theater. The enigma, punctuated by numerous literary references, always occupies a central place in his work, which he defines as a philosophical interrogation with the verb.
Biography
Born in 1935 in Bologna, Italy
Lives and works between Paris, Monte Carlo, and Meina, Italy
Education
1955
Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
Selected Public collections
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Museum of Modern Art, Liège, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
IVAM – Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain
Fundació Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis, United States
Museum of Modern Art, Pittsburgh, United States
McCrory Corporation, New York City, United States
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland
Maija and Urpo Lahtinen Foundation, Villa Urpo, Tampere, Finland
Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
National Contemporary Art Fund, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art of Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Étienne, France
Musée Cantini of Modern Art, Marseille, France
National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Picasso Museum, Antibes, France
Strasbourg Museum, Strasbourg, France
Institute of Contemporary Art of Villeurbanne, France
Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, Royal Palace, Milan, Italy
Gallery of Modern Art, Bergamo, Italy
Rotterdam Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Bernardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibits
2022
Valerio Adami, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
Valerio Adami – Immagine e pensiero, Dep Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
2020
Valerio Adami, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
2019
Camilla et Valerio Adami, Espace Jacques Villeglé, Saint Gratien, France
Les années 80, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2018
Adami : lignes de vie, Musée Jean Cocteau, Collection Séverin Wunderman, Menton, France
2017
Valerio Adami, Galleria L’Incontro, Chiari, Italy
Valerio Adami – The Narrative Line, The Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016
Valerio Adami, Secession, Vienne, Austria
Transfigurations, Chapelle Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Malo, France
De la ligne à la couleur, Le Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
Valerio Adami, Galerie Daniel Templon Brussels, Bruxelles, Belgium
Valerio Adami, Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy
2015
Major retrospective to mark Valerio Adami's 80th birthday, travelling exhibition : Turin Museum, Turin ; Mantua Museum, Mantua, Italy
Valerio Adami, Centre d’art contemporain à cent mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan, France
2014
Valerio Adami, Disegnare, Dipingere, Galeria André, Rome, Italy
Valerio Adami, Centre d’art graphique de la Métairie Bruyère, Parly, France
2013
Mosaïques, Musée d’art de la ville de Ravenne, Italy
Valerio Adami, Aquarelles, Galerie Biasutti, Turin, Italy
2012
Tableaux et dessins, Galerie Hass Ag, Zürich, Suisse
New Painting – Photographic Work from the Sixties, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Figure nel tempo, Galleria Tega, Milan, Italy
Œuvres graphiques, Nev, Ankara, Turkey
Valerio Adami, les années 1960, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, France
2011
Quadri di lettura, Padiglione Italia, Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy
Drawings, Galleria Usher arte, via della Zecca 15, Lucca, Italy
Paintings, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca, Italy
Watercolours, Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca, Italy
Opere 1971–2010, Museo Provinciale di Lecce, Lucca, Italie
Galerie IUFM, 11ème biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
2010
Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, Italy
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Miami, United States
Dessins, Impasse Beaubourg, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2009
Valerio Adami: Postlude, Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
2007
Jusqu’ici, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2006
Valerio Adami, Galleria Biasutti Giampiero, Turin, Italy
Adami d’après Adami, Musée d’art contemporain, Lisbon, Portugal
2005
Valerio Adami, Fondation d’Entreprise Espace Écureuil pour l’Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France
2004
Préludes et après-ludes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Valerio Adami – Rétrospective, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
2002
Marlborough Gallery, New York City, United States
Valerio Adami, Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2000
Valerio Adami – Opere 1990–2000, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, Italy
1999
Pop Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
La raccolta Spajani, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
1998
Adami, Umberto du marino, Giuliano in Campania, Italy
Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1996
Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan, Italy
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994
Magazzini del Sale, Sienne, Italy
Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy
Valerio Adami, rétrospective, Musée de Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1990
IVAM, Centro Julio Gonzales, Valence, Spain
1986
Valerio Adami, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
1985
Valerio Adami, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1984
Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York, United States
1983
Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1979
Museo d’Arte Moderno, Ville de Mexico, Mexico
Rétrospective, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1978
Dessins, Transgaarden de Hellrup, Copenhagen, Denmark
1976
Galerie Maeght, Barcelona, Spain
CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1975
Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Suisse
1973
Valerio Adami – Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1972
Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
1970
Rétrospective, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Galerie Maeght, Zürich, Switzerland
1966
Galleria Schwartz, Milan, Italy
Galleria Marconi, Milan, Italy
Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1964
Galerie Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland
Collaborative Exhibits
2022
Collection Collective ACMCM, à cent mètres du centre du monde, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Perpignan, France
2021
No More Boring Art! The Other Side, S.M.A.K., Gand, Belgium
Narrative Figuration 60s – 70s, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York City, États-Unis Dérives, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, France
2020
Figurez-vous… Adami, Erro, Guyomard, Klassen, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
« Nous sommes faits de nos rêves et notre petite vie est entourée de sommeil. », Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, France
Arte moltiplicata, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2019
Un monde, un seul, pour demeure, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Histoire de l’art cherche personnages…, CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Demons in line, Team Gallery, New York City, United States
The pictonary individual, Harkawik, Los Angeles, United States
2018
Io sono una poesia. Parole sui muri e le arti negli anni Sessanta tra Modena e Reggio Emilia, Musei Civici di Modena, Modène, Italy
Testimonianze – Composizioni Materiche E Oggettuali Dagli Anni ’60 Ad Oggi, Galleria d’Arte 2000 & Novecento, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Pictures without Shadows – A selection from the Kemp Collection, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017
40th anniversary. Twentieth Century Art Collection. 1977-2017, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Alicante (MACA), Alicante, Spain
HOP!, Musée d’Ixelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
Exposition de l’été, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, France
Giugno Italiano, nm>contemporary, Monaco, Monaco
Landscapes. Declinazioni in giallo e in verde, Galleria d’Arte 2000 & Novecento, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Nummeriert Und Handsigniert – Ausgewaehlte Graphik Und Skulptur, Die Galerie – Frankfurt, Francfort, Germany
Georges Pompidou, Une aventure du regard et de l’art, Domaine national de Chambord, France
La Nouvelle Figuration Européenne : 1964 – 1976, Galerie du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Mondalité, Fondation Boghossian-Villa Empain, Bruxelles, Belgium
2016
ROSSO, Anna Maria Consadori, Milan, Italy
Sternstunde – 100 Zeichnungen, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Italia Pop. L’Arte Negli Anni Del Boom, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Parme, Italy
Minimenta 2016, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris, France
Perdidos en la ciudad/ La vida urbana en las colecciones del IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valence, Spain
Italian Pop, Tornabuoni Art London, Londres, United Kingdom
Adami, Del Pezzo, Schifano, Tadini (50 anni dopo…), Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy
Juste pour le plaisir (A&B), Centre d’art contemporain à cent mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan, France
2015
The Silo, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York City, NY, United States
Cart(E), Galleria Cart, Monza (MB), Italy
1965-2015. 50 anni dallo Studio Marconi alla Fondazione Marconi, Fondazione Marconi, Milan, Italy
Arte contemporáneo en la colección Himalaya, Museo de Albacete, Albacete, Spain
Figuration Narrative : Paris 1960-1975, Art Collection S.à r.l, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
INTIMATE SPHERES, MA Galerie, Paris, France
2014
Figuration narrative, Adami, Erro, Klasen, Monory, Morteyrol, Velickovic, Atelier Gabrielle, Salernes, France
Estampes et œuvres sur papier, Galerie Atelier 28, Lyon, France
2013
Collection LGR, MAMAC, Nice, France
Foire européenne d’art contemporain, Parc des expositions, Strasbourg, France
2010
Arte Svelata, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy
2009
Riccardo Licata e gli amici di Venezia e Parigi, Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
Pop, Polit und Pin ups. Pop Art Grafik aus der Sammlung Beck, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bietigheim- Bissingen, Germany
Fixsterne: 100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany
Hot Spots, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil ; Milan, Turin, Italie ; Los Angeles, États-Unis ; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Passion d’art, Collection privées Musée Éphémère, Montélimar, France
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Chicago, United States
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, maison d’Elsa Triolet et Louis Aragon, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France
2007
Arte italiana 1968–2007 Pittura, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2006
Selecció del fons de la galeria, Art Vall, Andorra la Vella, Andora, Italy
Italian Pop, Mayor Gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Artists and Their Models, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Exposition de groupe, Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
2005
Anthropography III, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Obras Maestras del Siglo XX en las Colecciones del IVAM, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Ségovie, Spain
Hommage à Matisse, Artiscope, Bruxelles, Belgium
Bologna contemporanea, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologne, Italy
Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Pop Art Italia, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modène, Italy
2004
Suggestioni astratte e figurative, Galleria d’Arte 2000 & Novecento, Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy
Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart / Schrift – Bilder – Denken, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Christmas Art Gifts, Artiscope, Bruxelles, Belgique
Frissiras Museum, Athènes, Grèce
2003
Anthropogeography – The Human Figure at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Exposition de groupe, Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
2000
Une Ville – une collection, Centre de la gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière, France
1996
Festival de Spoleto, Pérouse, Italy
Acquisitions récentes du musée national d’histoire et d’art, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1995
46th International Art Exhibition, Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy
1989
Une histoire de collections : dons 1984–1989, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
1988
Gran Pavese, The Flag Project, M HKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Anvers, Belgium
1987
Hommage à Ferrari, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
1985
13ème Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
1978
Le Disque, artistic medium : from futurism to conceptual art, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977
Documenta IV, Cassel, Germany
1968
Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy
1964
Documenta III, Cassel, Germany
I Massacri privati, Galleria Schwartz, Milan, Italy
1961
Italian Artists, Cambridge Art Association, Boston, United States
1960
Young Italian Painters, Kamakura Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
Videos / Press
- Le journal des arts - october 2019 - Henry-François Debailleux - Adami en lac Majeur
- La Gazette Drouot - september 2019 - Alain Quemin - Valerio Adami : les années '80
- L'Oeil - september 2019 - V. DE - Valerio Adami