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“Therein lies all the mystery and magic of painting, of creating a myth, the conflict between temporal and timeless.”

Valerio Adami

Born in 1935, Valerio Adami has been adding to the history of modern art for over 60 years.

On 7 September 2019, Galerie Templon will be paying tribute to the artist in its 30 Rue Beaubourg space with a dozen of his paintings from the 1980s.

Valerio Adami, a remarkably precocious artist, trained in the traditional style of neo-classical drawing at the Brera Academy before a lifechanging encounter at the tender age of 16: Oscar Kokoschka, whose Prometheus he …