(born in Bologna in 1935)
Spettacolo pubblico “I Cubi”, 1965 - 1966, signed, titled and dated on the reverse, acrylic on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, in original Marconi’s frame

This work is registered in the Archivio Valerio Adami and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity signed by the artist

Provenance:
Sale, Cambi Casa d’Aste, 6 December 2012, lot. 167
European Private Collection (acquired from the above by the present owner)

"One day, my friend Jacques Dupin, who worked for Maeght, proposed that I collaborate with a painter on a joint work, a silkscreen print that would mix strokes, painting and writing. [...] A few months later, Jacques had the idea of teaming me up with Valerio Adami. [...]
In 1975, Dupin brought me some catalogues and I was immediately struck by the strength, the energy of the stroke, but also by a reference in the drawing - and in the painting - to other types of writing: literary, political, 'historical'. Very early on, I noticed the existence of a certain syncopated relationship with literary or political events in his work, with the writings of Joyce or Benjamin, with the European revolutions of this century, the Russian revolution, the Berlin revolution, etc., all captured in an elliptical way. All captured in an elliptical, syncopated way, in a very singular form.”
Jacques Derrida