GUEST WRITER: PATRIZIA POGGI, Art expert and Ambassador of Saperi e Sapori d’Italia

Roberto Alborghetti captures with photography the details of torn advertising posters, cracks on walls, or signs of wear on means of transport, transforming them into collages, prints on canvas or installations. These fragments, destined for oblivion, become metaphors of human fragility, resilience and the possibility of regeneration. They reveal unexpected textures, overlapping colors and words that evoke hidden stories. The decomposed posters, symbols of ephemeral advertising messages, are reinterpreted as traces of a society overexposed to communication. The works play with the tension between destruction and creation.

The worn surfaces become allegories of the passage of time and physical decay. The random tears generate abstract compositions that recall Action Painting or informal art, but with a concretely urban root.
Some series highlight the visual pollution of cities, connecting to the prestigious European Award for Environmental Reporting (the so-called “European Pulitzer” for environmental issues) awarded to him by the European Parliament in 1992, while in projects such as “Colors of an Apocalypse 2015”, the “lacer/actions” become secular icons creating a short circuit between contemporary art and spirituality and exhibited in historic places such as the Romanesque Baptistery of San Giovanni Battista in Lenno.
Alborghetti manages to elevate the gap to a poetic and political manifesto, inviting us to observe the city with a new gaze. His works are visual diaries of a humanity that resists, transforms and, even in wounds, finds beauty.