Shying away from existentialist painting and overcoming the expressionist debut of the Fifties, between 1964 and 1968 the pictorial language of Valerio Adami is distinguished by a marked use of the contour line, a typical device of mosaic works. The color, laid flat and brightly contrasted by light and dark, also becomes a design, because - as the artist himself explains - drawing is the genital organ of my painting.