Open Field: Marco Adamo

Contemporary art, sport, and social engagement come together in Open Field, a project promoted by OBLQA APS, an association dedicated to developing cultural initiatives and fostering collaborations between artists, institutions, and the local community, in collaboration with SimonBart Gallery and with the patronage of Bologna Football Club 1909.
The initiative unfolds through a series of moments that involve the city, using artistic language as a connective element between art, sport, and community.

The project begins with a solo exhibition by artist Marco Adamo at SimonBart Gallery in Piazza Cavour. Adamo’s pictorial research, characterized by an intimate and personal dimension, explores gesture and the relationship between body and space. The works are created by imprinting color onto the canvas through one of the most iconic gestures of the world’s most universal sport: an ideal goal that transforms impact into a mark and the athletic action into a visual language.

At the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium, Adamo created a performance with three professional players from Bologna Football Club 1909, transforming the football field into a space of artistic action. Through the movement of the ball and the interaction between the bodies, the canvas records traces, trajectories, and the energies of the sporting gesture.

The work originates from the playful dimension of the game, typical of childhood, yet it becomes a conscious act in which memory, body, and action turn into a mark. Football is not represented; it is crossed, experienced, and transformed into pictorial matter.

The artwork created will be donated to Bologna Football Club 1909 and exhibited at SimonBart Gallery for the duration of the exhibition, where it will be presented as part of a charitable fundraising initiative. The project supports Bimbo Tu, an association committed to assisting children with neurological conditions, reconnecting the project to the idea of protecting the carefree spirit typical of childhood.

With Open Field, art and sport meet in a project that seeks to give something back to the community, transforming a creative action into a gesture capable of generating shared value and tangible support.