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Valério Adami was born in Bologna, Italy on March 17th in 1935. He developed an interest in painting at an early age, and at the young age of 16, he gets accepted to the Accademia di Brera in Milan, where he pursues his studies until 1954. At the age of 20, he already has the chance to visit Paris where he meets both Roberto Matta and Wilfredo Lam. Both of the painters encourage him to develop his talents as an artist. Between the years of 1955 and 1965, Adami constantly travels between Italy, Paris and other, mainly European cities, interrupted by brief visits to New York, South America, and India. His first one-man exhibition is held in Milan in 1959, and since then Adami has held numerous exhibitions all around the world. One of the most prominent of these was his full-scale retrospective held at the Musee National d’Art Moderne at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1985. Adami also realized the feature film “Holidays in the desert” together with his brother Giancarlo. In 1978/79 he creates paintings with primarily mythological themes. As of 1984, his paintings are not dated anymore. Adami has managed to evolve his own iconography, an ingenious pictorial language that embraces both past and present, and within whose frontiers strange creatures keep company with famous faces from history: the author James Joyce, the French Revolutionary politician Robespierre, and the composer Gustav Mahler. Adami’s art also teems with figures from the great works of literature such as the knight Don Quixote with his faithful companion, Sancho Panza and the young Prince Hamlet preoccupied with gloomy thoughts of suicide outside Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. Visconti Fine Art has collaborated with Adami on various occasions, both through Editions and at various art fairs, where Adami was exhibited, around the world. One of these Editions is the SPORT AND ART, which was initiated in 1991 between Fascination “The Gallery of Modern Art” in Switzerland and Visconti Fine Art. Five internationally renowned artists, one of them being Valerio Adami (Italy) have created a limited edition of artworks, especially for SPORT AND ART.
View exhibitionJoan Miró
Selected artworks from the collection
Joan Miró, one of the most prominent painters of the 20th century, left behind an incredibly large and important graphic opus. In his printing atelier, he produced excellent graphic works in all mediums; etching, aquatint, lithography, and carborundum. Visconti Fine Art’s collection is trying to reflect Joan Miró’s magnificent variety and artistic skillfulness of his graphic print production.
John Angus Chamberlain
Selected artworks
John Angus Chamberlain (April 16. 1927 – December 21. 2011, was an American sculptor. At the time of his death, he resided and worked on Shelter Island, New York. Chamberlain is best known for creating sculptures from old automobiles (or parts of) that bring the Abstract Expressionist style of painting into three dimensions. He began by carving and modelling, but turned to working in metal in 1952 and welding 1953. By 1957, while staying with the painter Larry Rivers in Southampton, New York, he began to include scrap metal from cars with his sculpture Shortstop, and from 1959 onward he concentrated on sculpture built entirely of crushed automobile parts welded together. Far more than just another wrinkle on assemblage Shortstop and subsequent works completely reinvented modeling casting, and volume altering Marcel Duchamp's notion of the readymade and using the car as both medium and tool. In 1962 Donald Judd wrote, "The only reason Chamberlain is not the best American sculptor under forty is the incommensurability of 'the best' which makes it arbitrary to say so.“
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Art gallery and print editors specialized in International and Slovenian contemporary and classical modern art. Due to the gallery’s intensive work in the editorial field since its establishment, throughout these many years, the founders managed to establish personal relationships with various world-known artists, some of which included Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, David Hockney, Henry Moore, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Vladimir Veličković, and Dušan Džamonja. The gallery organized one-man shows for numerous artists during the past four decades, presented many of them at various art fairs, and even published graphic print editions with some (Editions by Visconti Fine Art).
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VISCONTI Fine Art
Art gallery and print editors specialized in International and Slovenian contemporary and classical modern art. Due to the gallery’s intensive work in the editorial field since its establishment, throughout these many years, the founders managed to establish personal relationships with various world-known artists, some of which included Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, David Hockney, Henry Moore, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Vladimir Veličković, and Dušan Džamonja. The gallery organized one-man shows for numerous artists during the past four decades, presented many of them at various art fairs, and even published graphic print editions with some (Editions by Visconti Fine Art).
Our locations
Mestni trg 18
Ljubljana
Slovenia