1980 Valerio Adami Print Dm05239 Derriere Le Miroir

Artist: Valerio Adami
Country: Italy
Title: Untitled DM05239
Medium: Offst
Marks: Signed in plate
Printed: 1980 by Maeght, France
Paper: 15×11 inch
Provenance: Derriere le Miroir 1980
Condition: Fine – Pristine
COA is included

Valerio Adami (born 17 March 1935) is an Italian painter who his art is influenced by Pop Art. He is famous for his paintings with surfaces of flashy outlined by thick black lines, reminding of comics. He divides his time between France and Italy.

In the late ’60s, he became part of the Nouvelle Figuration (New Figuration) movement. Adami began to address politics in his art, and incorporated subject matter such as modern European history, literature, philosophy, and mythology. Adami’s artworks were expressionistic, but around 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 colour bordered by black lines. The artist subjects were highly stylized and often presented in fragments, as seen in Telescoping Rooms.