Canvases ‘painted’ by a balloon, the works of Marco Adamo in Viareggio

If in football the aim is to send the ball into the goal, in Marco Adamo’s art the goal is to send the ball onto the canvases. Dirty with color, however, not with mud. The message – he says it himself – is clear: every ball is an attempt to break down hatred, corruption and violence, it is a game played to color a different world, a better world. To do this, Marco Adamo chooses the ball, not a brush, he uses it with his feet, not with his hands. He kicks and meets canvases, not goals. And he leaves his fingerprints on the canvases. The artist’s works on display, until September 15, in a personal exhibition entitled ‘Palla al centro’, at the Museum Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAMC) ‘Lorenzo Viani’ in Viareggio.

The exhibition at the Gamc, in collaboration with the Department of Culture of Viareggio, collects the works of the action painter of the ball Marco Adamo who, by dint of pentagons and hexagons printed on the surface, the same ones that design the characteristic football ball , creates a fabric of stencils that draw colorful abstracts or ‘impressionist’ shapes that can be glimpsed at a glance. Like a swarm of bees building the hexagons of the hive, Marco Adamo sews and dyes together. The ball is the co-author of an art which, shot after shot, forms a clear and unmistakable concept. He has fun and releases tension, exploding expressive energy with his faithful ball companion, executor of well-studied trajectories. The splashes of color overlap and replace the brush stroke with a symbolic ‘I was there’ that recalls cave paintings with stencils and handprints of primitive men.

From a ‘slap’ to a ball kick is a short step. The artist, born in 1990 in Gallipoli, lives and works in Rome, and therefore lands on an imaginary football field and comes down to play the game of change, kicking the hatred and racism he doesn’t like and replacing them with the polychromy of his works. The metaphor leaves no doubt and football, the most common and most followed sport on the planet, offers its ‘gates’ inside which to kick balls of meanings and paint the networks of creativity and ‘overwhelming’ colors. Start of the game…ball in the center! Furthermore a monumental sculpture of about three meters
heart-shaped and made up of 42 colored balloons made in bronze will be placed, for the entire duration of the summer exhibition, in the final part of the Viareggio pier clearing.