- Dec 30, 2010 to Jan 9, 2011
- Location: The Boca Raton Museum of Art
- Latest Activity: Sep 23, 2020
internationally as an important European artist who first came to
international prominence in the 1960s with Nouvelle Figuration, the
French intellectual version of Pop art. Adami’s work is steeped in
political, social and moral mythologies. This exhibition presents a
retrospective of more than four decades of work with 23 important
paintings from the 1960s to his most recent paintings.
Adami’simages embrace themes that have preoccupied the artist for more than 50
years: literature, travels, poetry, music, politics and painting. After
more than half a century of working creatively, Adami has evolved his
own iconography, an ingenious pictorial language that embraces both past
and present, in which strange creatures keep company with famous faces
from history: the French Revolutionary politician Robespierre, the
author James Joyce and the composer Gustav Mahler. His famous pop art
colors and flat forms with their thick black contours evoke the
appearance of cartoons. Yet his everyday imagery plays a fundamental
role in conveying his many social, philosophical and literary
references. Here we see Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Claudel, Derrida in
works which develop like poems or reminiscences of a lifetime: hotel
rooms, sights of the East, home life, scenes of theater and the street.
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