Claudio Adami

Claudio Adami born in 1951 in Città di Castello (Perugia), completes his art studies in Rome. In the early 70s he approached the group of artists operating in Rome who were the protagonists of that current called “new painting. He shares with them the marked analytical and conceptual connotations in making painting. In recent years he has created sign-gestural textures which gradually, through arithmetic combinations of black color, conceal them to the point of canceling their readability and perception. Subsequently, he shifts his interests towards photography, but once again he does not care about the purely formal aspects of language.

Precisely through photography, with photography and on photography he tries to analyze the blurred boundaries of objectivity of the photographic medium itself.
It produces a series of long sequences in which the original image is photographed and reproduced several times until its initial appearance is changed, this mutation does not take place by autonomous choice, but through a process related precisely to the shooting-reproduction technique of photography.

In the early eighties, that path begins where the written word loses its appearance and function, turns into a pure black sign which accumulates on the white surface of the paper or canvas and becomes pure pictorial draft. This real exercise of transcription of texts takes place using simple elements: the thickness of the nib, the scanning of the lines and sometimes the white spaces that correspond to the closing point of the day-wash.
Lives and works in Rome.