Franco ADAMI
Born in Pise (Italy), in 1933 et died in April 2022 at Paris.
Franco ADAMI is part of these sculptors for whom sculpture is above all a permanent search to reveal life trough shapes and volumes of bronze or marble. His shapes get tangles up in narrow and jointed subdivisions recalling through the themes of totems, masks, metamorphosis, and animals, eternal archetypes.He has already participated to exhibitions in the most prestigious fairs and galleries, and his work is the subject of numerous publications.
EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
VIDÉOS
BIOGRAPHY
Léonardo da Vinci Institut in Pise ; Scuola d’Arte in Cascina ; Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
1997 : Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
1987 : Musée de Maubeuge, France
1983 : Museo dei Bozzetti (Musée des Maquettes), Pietrasanta, Italie
1983 : Musée Antoine Lecuyer, Saint Quentin, France
1982 : Musée d’Evreux, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Germany : Kaiserslautern (Musée Théodor Zink)
Belgium : Ghent (Galerie Michèle Guérin)
South Korea : Seoul (Galerie Meegun)
Ivory Coast : Abidjan (Galerie Mitkal)
United States : Miami (Galerie Arreghi)
France : Paris (Espace Pierre Cardin, Galerie ARCTURUS, Galerie Eric de Montbel, Village Royal, Théâtre du Rond Point des Champs Elysées, Galerie Michèle Guérin, Galerie Anne-Marie Galland, Galerie K, Galerie de l’Odéon, Centre Vickers-Ronéo, Siège du Crédit Lyonnais, Galerie Matignon) ; Arles (Couvent des Ursulines) ; Barbizon (Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Galerie Triade) ; Briare (Domaine des Roches) ; Collioure (Château Royal de Collioure) ; La Baule (Galerie Goinard, Hôtel Royal Thalasso) ; Le Bourget (Hôtel de Ville) ; Mantes-la-Jolie (Hôtel de Ville) ; Metz (Centre Culturel R. Schuman) ; Nancay (Galerie Capazza) ; Rosny sur Seine (Hospices Saint Charles) ; Toulouse (Galerie Jennifer Pellé) ; Versailles (Galerie Anagama) ; Villedieu (Centre culturel)
Britain : London (British Red Cross)
Italy : Carrara (Castello Malaspina) ; Pise (Galleria Medicea ) ; San Giuliano (Villa Medici)
Netherlands : Amsterdam (Reflex Modern’art Galerie) ; Laren (Galerie Franz Jacobs, Galerie Bianca Landgraaf),
Turkey : Istanbul (Galerie Vakko)
Swiss : Geneva (Galerie Michèle Reymondin)
ART FAIRS
Germany : Art Fair of Munich ; International Art Fair of Cologne
Belgium : Foire of Gand
France : Art Paris ; FIAC, Paris ; Art Elysées, Paris ; Start’2000, Strasbourg ; Salon d’Angers ; Art Jonction, Nice ; Salon Comparaisons, Paris ; 1er Forum d’Art Plastique, Ulis ; Biennale Européenne de sculpture, Jouy/Eure ; Biennale de Brest ; Automne Italien, Chambéry ; Salon des Réalités nouvelles, Paris
Hungary : Art Fair de Budapest
Netherlands : Art Fair Maastricht ; Biennale of Sculpture, Amsterdam ; Pan Amsterdam
Singapore : Art Fair Singapour
Sweden : Art Fair, Stockholm
Swiss : Europ’Art, Geneva
PRIZES
2008 : Gold medal for Art and Culture awarded by the President of Italy
1987 : Sculpture Prize of La Fondation de France
1981 : Fernand Dupré Prize
1957 : Sculpture Prize of Cascina
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2001 : « Dessins et intimismes », Gérard Xuriguera, Ed Acatos
1995 : Catalog of the Museo Marino Marini, Florence ; Monograph, Edition Léopard d’Or
1994 : Catalog of the Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta
1987 : German translation of the monograph, by Michel Mortier and Peter Dunkel
1985 : « A la recherche d’Alexandre », Ed Etairoi, Milan
1983 : Monograph, Christine Debrie, Curator of the Lecuyer museum in Saint Quentin
1979 : « Leonardo », International Journal of Contemporary Artists Founder, Ed. Franck Malina ; « La sculpture moderne en France depuis 1950 »,Gérard Xuriguera and Lionel Jianou, Ed. Arted
PRESS
WRITINGS
ADAMI FRANCO, DRAWINGS & INTIMACY (Excerpt)
…Whilst drawing is no longer really at the forefront of the younger generations’ minds—who have replaced the demands of its constraints with random shifts towards conceptual approaches—for many artists it remains the cornerstone of their mode of expression: the sketch and its final form…
Without necessarily being subservient to his work, the sculptor sees things as simple, direct and uncluttered, insofar as he relies on a contour drawing, where colour does not mask the shortcomings of the line…
This is certainly true of Franco Adami, who has always pursued a dual artistic path. A path defined above all by his three-dimensional vision – the field in which he has made his name – yet one from which he breaks free, whether out of necessity or for the sheer pleasure of it, allowing his hand to roam with a controlled freedom, guided by the immediacy of his sensations, which he immediately commits to the blank page…
Franco Adami pursues a fundamental aim, which is to establish a harmonious flow of energy, a precise balance of juxtaposed masses, an effective interplay of contrasts, a coherent interweaving of full forms and sparse recesses, of projections and indentations, of sequences and pauses, a subtle arrangement of shaded areas and areas of light, and a rational use of space, tailored to his project…
As we shall have gathered, Franco Adami’s shorthand vocabulary does not adopt an intellectual stance in conveying the vital energy he carries within him, what he feels when encountering archaic peoples, when faced with the vagaries of daily life and the demands of his imagination. For him, the writing hand is not merely an instrument or a means, but the substrate of his mind, his very spirit. Confronted with the ambiguity of reality, Franco is also well aware, as Degas put it, that ‘drawing is not the form but the way of seeing the form’…
In his work, drawing is content with almost nothing, to generate a whole world in the making.
By Gérard XURIGUERA
Acatos Publishing, Lausanne, 2001
(translated from French)