In 1981 he settled in the Principality of Monaco, while continuing to travel around Europe, in Madrid and London. In 1980 Italo Calvino is the author of uattro favole d'Esopo per Valerio Adami. In 1979 he stayed in Mexico City on the occasion of an important one-man show held at the Museo de Arte Moderno, which was then transferred to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Essai sur le formalisme critique, published in 1975, and the essay by Jacques Derrida dedicated to his work, published in the 1977 volume La verité en peinture. Other important editorial events follow: the book by Marc Le Bot Valerio Adami. The feature film he made in 1971, Vacanze nel deserto, was awarded at the Toulon Film Festival.ĭuring his stay in Bavaria in 1974 he published the volume Das Reich-10 Lektionen uber das reich with the German writer Helmut Heissenbuttel. In 1970 he exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Maeght, which since then became the main point of reference for his work, and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris dedicated a major exhibition to him, which was later transferred to Ulm. In 1969 with the writer Carlos Fuentes, author of the text Lineas para Adami drawn up the year before, he stayed in Mexico and Venezuela, in Caracas, where the Museo de Bellas Artes hosted one of his personal exhibitions. "Toilettes, hotels, massacri privati", as Adami writes, "are ways of life, the other nervous system when I go out with my camera".ġ968 is the year of some important exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, in which he figures with a personal room, and the exhibitions held at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and at the Jewish Museum in New York. His meeting with Ezra Pound in Venice dates back to this period, then his transfer to New York, where he stayed at the Chelsea Hotel: here the large canvases dedicated to hotel rooms, latrines, homosexuals were born. Invited to Documenta III in Kassel by Werner Haftmann in 1964, the following year he appeared in the exhibition entitled I massacri privati, Gli omosessuali-Privacy and Le stanze a canocchiale, held in Milan, the city where in 1966 he presented Immagini con associazioni at Galleria Schwarz and at Studio Marconi. In 1962 he married Camilla, with whom he settled in Arona, on Lake Maggiore. In 1952, after his first stay in Paris where he painted Little Bambine in seggiolino and L'asino d'Empoli, he moved to London and, at the invitation of Roland Penrose, exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Valerio Adami was born in Bologna on March 17, 1935.Īfter completing his scientific studies in Milan, where in the meantime the family had moved, he decided to devote himself to painting by entering Felice Carena's atelier in Venice, followed by the meeting in 1951 with Oskar Kokoschka, then training at the Brera Academy with Achille Funi.
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