Gli Adami di Adami: opere dal fondo Adami per l’Institut du Dessin

In the Gallery of the Refettorio delle Stelline the Gruppo Credito Valtellinese presents the exhibition of the Adami Collection: 77 works with 43 big canvas and 34 drawings on paper, that are made by the artist from 1983. The works on show represents (together with the works of Mengs, Appiani, Mirò, Giacometti, Steinberg and many others not in this exhibition) the Fund, the economical as well as cultural guarantee, of the lnstitut du Dessin Fondation Adami, whose headquarters will be opened in Meina on Lake Maggiore.
Commissioned by the artist in August 1995 with a European dimension, it will permanently host the works of the Fund that, before finding their final location there, will be displayed in Milan at the Gruppo Credito Valtellinese Gallery and afterwards in Tel Aviv, Miami and Buenos Aires.
Even though the painting of Valerio Adami cannot be easily labelled into strict interpretive categories, the works of the Fund correspond to different thematic horizons: the mythological Tales, with Pentesilea in 1994, the Portraits, with The Self-portrait which dates back to 1983 and the Portrait of Vittorio Alfieri in 1995, the Political Paintings, and then again the literary ones, The allegorical landscapes, Paintings of a Traveller and finally Capricci.