(born in Bologna in 1935)
The Guggenheim, 1968, dated, signed and titled on the reverse, oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Valerio Adami

This work is accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist

Provenance:
Sale Farsetti, Prato, 26 November 1994
European Private Collection

As Valerio Adami wrote in 1968, “The hand is a kind of seismograph giving body to the traces left by the circuit of imagination”: the drawing hand is an instrument that records what the eye looks at and the mind sees. It is the starting point of the artist’s method: the hand-seismograph that in the “journey of drawing” goes through the kaleidoscope of his inspiration, and that in the essentiality of the line reworks, summarizes, juxtaposes, disassembles and reassembles it. […]

The lines of the drawing, eternally moving as the mind distilling them, - since for Adami “nulla dies sine linea” (no day without a line) – are the “off the beaten track” trails that the artist constantly crosses and connects. He does so by bringing distant worlds together, from the Ganges to the Matterhorn and from Paris to Finland by making the Greek mythological narrative coexist with New York street life, by recalling the light spells of Lake Maggiore or the clouds at sunrise.
(G. Ranzi, Valerio Adami and the lightly swaying desire, in “Valerio Adami. Immagine e pensiero”, Dep Art, Milan 2002)