Hindenburg
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Born in Bologna on 17 March 1935. The Italian painter,
draughtsman and printmaker, was given a rigorous training as a draughtsman between
1951 and 1954 in Achille Funi's studio at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera,
Milan, which provided the basis for his mature work. Before developing his characteristic
contour line and flat surfaces, he experimented briefly with an expressionistic
style that combined violent and humorous imagery inspired by the explosive forms
in space favoured by Roberto Matta and by strip cartoons; typical of this phase
is one of his earliest large canvases, L'ora del sandwiche (1963; Camilla Adami
priv. col.).
He settled in Paris in 1957 but divided his time between France and Italy. In
such paintings as Stanze a cannocchiale ("Telescoped rooms", 1965;
Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mus. A.) he began to develop a highly decorative idiom
of stylized images outlined in black on a surface of interlocking areas of intense,
unmodulated colour. His usual starting-point was a photograph or several associated
images, which he reworked, fragmented and presented in a schematic form. This
remained Adami's system of working in later years, although his subject-matter
changed.
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