Valerio Adami's Unmistakable Painting Returns to Milan

Dep Art Gallery in Milan presents 'Ripensando la realtà', a solo exhibition of Valerio Adami (b. 1935, Bologna), curated by Lorenzo Madaro. The show features around twenty paintings, many large-scale, plus drawings and watercolors, created between the 1970s and 2000s. It follows a previous solo show at the same gallery three years ago, organized by founder Antonio Addamiano, and runs concurrently with an exhibition at Fondazione Marconi focusing on Adami's earlier work. The exhibition explores Adami's signature style: synthetic, structuring lines enclosing flat color areas, capturing essential contours. His narrative uses metonymy and partial fragments that interlock, drawing on Michelangelesque anatomy, Mannerist studies, and Cubist spatial decomposition. Works include 'Mon journal au bord du lac' (1990), 'Sturm und Drang' (1979), 'Odisseo (per E. Pound)' (1977), and 'Mnemosine, machine à écrire et violon' (1987), a three-meter-wide painting featuring James Joyce and a hand playing a violin, with Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory. The accompanying catalog includes a bio-bibliographic appendix reproducing covers of Adami's books and exhibition catalogs worldwide.