From November 27, 2024 to January 31, 2025 Ambrosiana Art Gallery is pleased to present Valerio Adami. L'arte del sogno , an anthological exhibition dedicated to one of the most influential artists and intellectuals of our time.

 

The project, curated by Andrea Poleschi and accompanied by a critical text by Rossella Farinotti, covers the entire artistic career of Valerio Adami, with a selection of around fifty works, created by the Bolognese master starting from the 1960s ( Interno borghese , 1968, graphite on cardboard, 48x36 cm) up to his most recent works ( The man and the violin , 2024, acrylic on canvas, 116x89 cm).

 

Valerio Adami. L'arte del sogno is the title of the exhibition; the theme of dreams, in fact, is explored by Adami through multiple perspectives and enriched by a variety of visual and symbolic elements, drawn from his personal, professional and cultural experience. In front of Adami's works, the spectator is invited to reflect on the relationship between reality and imagination, between the tangible and the dreamlike. His paintings, characterized by sinuous lines and intense colors that refer to imaginary universes, offer themselves to the observer as puzzles to decipher, enigmas to unravel.

 

This exhibition is part of a long-lasting curatorial path. The bond between the Poleschi family and Valerio Adami, in fact, has its roots in 1993, when Vittorio Poleschi, Andrea's father, inaugurated the Lucca gallery with a first exhibition dedicated to the artist. In the footsteps of this first exhibition, in 2022 Andrea Poleschi presents Nessun giorno senza linea at his Milanese gallery. Today, following the major exhibition of Valerio Adami at Palazzo Reale in Milan, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Andrea once again feels the need to examine Adami's vibrant and extraordinary work, proposing a curated selection of works in dialogue with each other, whose different levels of interpretation merge into a narrative dedicated to the dream.

 

The project is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue (Italian-English), with a critical text by Rossella Farinotti, in which all the works present in the exhibition are reproduced.