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Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery OBLONG Contemporary Gallery is an art gallery based in Dubai and Forte Dei Marmi, Italy, promoting modern and contemporary international art.

01/10/2026

Colour becomes form. Light reveals its depth.

Through extroflection—the outward shaping of the canvas—Omar Ludo creates sculptural surfaces where rounded forms catch light and cast real shadows. New contours emerge as you move, inviting you to look closer.

Discover Omar Ludo: Extroflection / The outward shaping of a surface at Oblong Contemporary.

📍 On view at Oblong Forte dei Marmi

What if sculpture were the one to encounter us? ✨In San Quirico d’Orcia, Gianfranco Meggiato’s works do not wait to be o...
21/09/2026

What if sculpture were the one to encounter us? ✨

In San Quirico d’Orcia, Gianfranco Meggiato’s works do not wait to be observed. They appear.

Between a tree and a path, beyond an architectural structure, within the silence of a landscape that seems to have existed forever. 🌿

Contemporary matter momentarily interrupts what is familiar, compelling us to look again.

This is one of the most powerful impressions conveyed by IN ITINERE – Quantum Man on the Move: not an exhibition to be experienced simply by following a route, but rather a sequence of encounters.

Light travels across the surfaces, the landscape enters through the openings of the sculptures, and nature continuously transforms what we see. As we move around the works, the works themselves begin to alter our perception of the place.

Here, Meggiato does not occupy the landscape.
He sets it in motion.

And perhaps this is precisely the meaning of IN ITINERE: to remind us that no gaze ever truly remains still.

Gianfranco Meggiato
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IN ITINERE – Quantum Man on the Move
55th Forme nel Verde

📍San Quirico d’Orcia

18/09/2026

Some places we pass through.
Others somehow pass through us.

In San Quirico d’Orcia, matter meets landscape, silence, and time.

And for a moment, everything seems to fall into place. 🌿



IN ITINERE – Quantum Man on the Move

📍San Quirico d’Orcia

GUSTAVO VÉLEZ | THE SHAPE OF MOVEMENTThe sculpture of Gustavo Vélez emerges from a tension between the solidity of matte...
17/09/2026

GUSTAVO VÉLEZ | THE SHAPE OF MOVEMENT

The sculpture of Gustavo VĂŠlez emerges from a tension between the solidity of matter and the sense of movement that seems to flow through it.
Marble, bronze and steel gradually shed their weight. Surfaces unfold through curves, twists and openings, while light and void become an integral part of the form itself.

Born in MedellĂ­n, VĂŠlez found in Pietrasanta a pivotal place for his artistic research, where the great Italian sculptural tradition encounters a distinctly contemporary sensibility.

In his works, geometry does not seek static perfection: it stretches, opens and shifts with the viewer’s gaze.
Matter remains.

Perception moves.

Gustavo Vélez Escultor 
Represented in Italy by OBLONG Contemporary Art Gallery

At the Sant’Agostino complex, history is not a backdrop: it shapes the way we see.The fourteenth-century church, with it...
15/09/2026

At the Sant’Agostino complex, history is not a backdrop: it shapes the way we see.

The fourteenth-century church, with its restrained Tuscan Gothic character, and the cloister, defined by columns, arches and the seventeenth-century lunettes by Astolfo Petrazzi, create a setting of rigor and measure.

Within this space, the sculptures of Gustavo Vélez Escultor introduce a different tension. Marble and metal become fluid, ascending forms, where torsion, polished surfaces and daring balances seem to challenge the weight of the material itself.

Vélez’s work moves constantly between solidity and movement, transforming mass into rhythm.

Between the order of historic architecture and the energy of contemporary sculpture, a dialogue of forms, weight and tension emerges.

Gustavo VĂŠlez. The Dimensions of Balance
📍 Chiostro di Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta
📆 Until 20 September 2026

Un ritratto non ha sempre un volto.Può essere una chiave, un paio di occhiali, un accappatoio. Oggetti comuni che, nello...
14/09/2026

Un ritratto non ha sempre un volto.

Può essere una chiave, un paio di occhiali, un accappatoio. Oggetti comuni che, nello sguardo di Luca Vernizzi, abbandonano la loro funzione quotidiana per diventare presenze, indizi, frammenti di memoria.

La variazione di scala li sottrae all’abitudine e li restituisce allo sguardo con una forza nuova, quasi monumentale.

Nelle sale di Oblong, il dialogo tra Giorgio Armani e le grandi opere MacroPop supera cosÏ il genere del ritratto per interrogare qualcosa di piÚ intimo: il modo in cui le persone continuano a raccontarsi attraverso ciò che scelgono, usano, indossano e conservano.

Per Vernizzi, le cose non sono mai semplici cose: trattengono gesti, identità e tracce di vita.

Luca Vernizzi
Omaggio a Giorgio Armani e le grandi opere MacroPop
📍Forte dei Marmi
📆fino al 27 settembre

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Ci sono serate che restano per l’atmosfera, per gli incontri e per l’energia che si crea intorno all’arte.Grazie a tutti...
09/09/2026

Ci sono serate che restano per l’atmosfera, per gli incontri e per l’energia che si crea intorno all’arte.

Grazie a tutti coloro che hanno condiviso con noi l’inaugurazione di “Luca Vernizzi. Omaggio a Giorgio Armani e le grandi opere Macro Pop” negli spazi di Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery a Forte dei Marmi.

Un progetto nato dal concept di Rosi Fontana, capace di intrecciare memoria, eleganza e ricerca artistica attraverso lo sguardo di Luca Vernizzi.

Il nostro ringraziamento va a tutti gli ospiti, collezionisti, amici della Galleria e professionisti che hanno contribuito a rendere questa occasione cosĂŹ speciale.

Condividere l’arte significa anche creare relazioni, conversazioni e momenti che continuano oltre una singola serata.

Grazie per essere stati con noi❤️

Ph: Matteo Viti

Paola Marucci

📍Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery
Via G. Carducci, 45
Forte dei Marmi, Italy

Form, texture and strength converge in Rhino Crack, a compelling work by contemporary artist Stefano Bombardieri.
08/09/2026

Form, texture and strength converge in Rhino Crack, a compelling work by contemporary artist Stefano Bombardieri.

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Tuesday 11:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 11:00 - 19:00
Thursday 11:00 - 19:00
Friday 11:00 - 19:00

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