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Valerio Adami Hard Cover Book

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Valerio Adami Hard Cover Book
Artist Name: Valerio AdamiTitle: Adami by Hubert Damisch and Henry MartinMedium: BookSize: 11.25" x 11.25"Condition: ExcellentNotes: 195 pages; text with 102 plates, approximately 40 in color.Biography * Valerio Adami was born in Bologna on March 17, * 1935. In 1945, at the age of ten, he began to study painting under the instruction of Felice Carena. He was accepted into the Brera Academy (Accademia di Brera) in 1951, and there studied as a draughtsman until 1954 in the studio of Achille Funi. In 1955 he went to Paris, where he met and was influenced by Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam. His first solo exhibition came in 1959 in Milan. * * In his early career, Adami's works were expressionistic, but by the time of his second exhibition in 1964 at Kassel, he had developed a style of painting reminiscent of French cloisonnism, featuring regions of flat color bordered by black lines. Unlike Gauguin, however, Adami's subjects were highly stylized and often presented in fragments, as seen in Telescoping Rooms (1965). * In the 1970s, Adami began to address politics in his art, and incorporated subject matter such as modern European history, literature, philosophy, and mythology.  *