From July 17 to September 22, 2024, at Palazzo Reale, a retrospective of the artist Valerio Adami (Bologna, 1935) celebrates sixty-five years of career and research of one of the most important Italian artists of the post-war period.

The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Milan – Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale with the Archive Valerio Adami, under the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris. Curated by Marco Meneguzzo, with the general coordination of Valeria Cantoni Mamiani, president of the Valerio Adami Archive, the exhibition features over seventy large paintings and about fifty drawings, from 1957 to 2023, among the most significant in the Master's work. Esteemed painter worldwide, Valerio Adami perfectly embodies the idea of an international artist open to all suggestions derived from other languages, such as literature, philosophy, music.

Trained in Milan, at Brera, with Achille Funi, he immediately understood the importance of being part of an international environment. His travels, always accompanied by his wife Camilla Cantoni Mamiani, began with the traditional "pilgrimage" to Paris at a very young age and never ended: London, New York, Mexico City, Athens, Cuba, India, Caracas, Milan, but above all Paris (where he spent winters) and Meina (on the shores of Lake Maggiore, his current residence, where he

transferred all summers) are just some of his favorite places; places where Adami would settle, often opening a studio, to discover and be "contaminated" by the local culture for the necessary time, thanks to personal encounters with writers, musicians, and intellectuals.

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