Shunning existentialist painting and surpassing the expressionist debut of the Fifties, between 1964 and 1968 Valerio Adami's pictorial language stands out for a marked use of the outline, a typical feature of mosaic works. The color, applied flat and vividly contrasted by lights and darks, also becomes a design, because - as the artist himself explains - the design is the genital organ of my painting.