From November 27th 2024 to January 31st 2025, Ambrosiana Art Gallery is pleased to present “Valerio Adami. L’arte del sogno”, an anthology 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, traces the entire artistic career of Valerio Adami, featuring a selection of approximately fifty works created by the artist from the 1960s (Interno borghese, 1968, graphite on cardboard, cm 48x36) to his most recent works (The man and the violin, 2024, acrylic on canvas, cm 116x89).

“Valerio Adami. L’arte del sogno” is the title of the exhibition; the theme of the dream is explored by Adami through multiple perspectives and enriched by a variety of visual and symbolic elements drawn from his personal, professional, and cultural experiences. In front of Adami's works, the viewer 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 evoke imaginary universes, present themselves to the observer as riddles to be deciphered, enigmas to be unveiled.

This exhibition is part of a long-standing curatorial journey. The relationship between the Poleschi family and Valerio Adami dates back to 1993, when Vittorio Poleschi, Andrea’s father, inaugurated the gallery in Lucca with an initial exhibition dedicated to the artist. Following in the footsteps of this first show, in 2022 Andrea Poleschi presented “Nessun giorno senza linea” at his Milan gallery. Now, following the major Valerio Adami exhibition at Palazzo Reale in Milan, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Andrea once again feels the need to explore Adami’s vibrant and extraordinary body of work, offering a carefully curated selection of artworks in dialogue with one another, where different levels of interpretation merge into a narrative dedicated to dreams.

The project is accompanied by a bilingual catalog (Italian-English), featuring a critical text by Rossella Farinotti, which reproduces all the works on display.

2023.63.23 Adami Sol Sombra 1994 acrilico su tela cm. 50x60 alta.jpg

check our last exhibition:

Achille Perilli. Geometrie asimmetriche

September 19 - October 18, 2024

From 19th September to 18th October 2024, Ambrosiana Art Gallery is pleased to present “Achille Perilli. Geometrie asimmetriche”, a retrospective dedicated to the Roman artist.

The exhibition project, conceived by Andrea Poleschi, features a collection of around twenty works created by Perilli from the 1980s onwards, starting with La girandola sul piano (1981, mixed media on canvas, 50x50 cm) and extending to his later years with Il canto del lupo (2016, mixed media on canvas, 81x65 cm). With this exhibition, Ambrosiana Art Gallery aims to explore unique aspects of the artist's expressive language, examining his works from new perspectives. From the relationship between geometric shapes and bright colors to the asymmetry that makes his compositions perpetually unconventional; from the complexity of the world evoked by his thought to the apparent simplicity of geometric figures that multiply and expand, contradicting structural order and rational principles.

What stands out with extraordinary freshness in Perilli's geometric frameworks is the unique quality of his painting: the interplay between monochromatic backgrounds and the surprising complexity of abstract configurations, the vibrancy of color combinations with well-defined flat areas, and the vibrant harmonies among various tones of blue, green, yellow, orange, violet, white and black.

In a 1982 text, Perilli summarized his artistic practice as follows: "Visual tension can only be achieved when multiple contrasting forces find a way to discharge in a single node. When this happens, in a concentrated and tense space like the geometric one, it creates a shift in forces, a collapse of certainties, which is my main concern." The project is accompanied by a catalog featuring a critical text by Francesco Poli, which includes reproductions of all the exhibited works.