“DARK NIGHT / SNOWFLAKES AND FROST / BEFORE THE NEW DAY”

“Dark night /Snowflakes and frost / Before the New Day”: an “Haiku” to spread my Season’s Greetings throught an experience of visual art that fuses macro photography, words and music. The text wants to express with the language of the Haiku the difficulties of the present moment we are experiencing (dark night, frost and snow)… Read More “DARK NIGHT / SNOWFLAKES AND FROST / BEFORE THE NEW DAY”

“QUARANTINE” E’ LA PAROLA INGLESE DEL 2020: LO DICE IL CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY

Originally posted on OKAY!:
 Nel 2020 la pandemia e l’emergenza sanitaria hanno portato un’ondata di parole nuove e dai significati rivisitati. In italiano, termini come coronavirus, Covid-19, numero-R, lockdown, congiunti, smart-working, auto isolamento, isolamento fiduciario, DAD (Didattica a Distanza), o Zoom sono entrati nella quotidianità e il linguaggio si è così arricchito di molte parole di…

“IT COMES AND GOES IN WAVES AND CARRIES US AWAY…” (DEAN LEWIS)

“It comes and goes in waves and carries us away…” is a quote from “Waves” song recorded by Dean Lewis on his album “A place we know”. Lewis is an Australian singer-songwriter and is best known for his 2016 single “Waves“, which was certified 7× Platinum in Australia in 2020; see the track list at: … Read More “IT COMES AND GOES IN WAVES AND CARRIES US AWAY…” (DEAN LEWIS)

“FRANCESCO”: COFANETTO DI 4 VOLUMI, 500 PAGINE, OLTRE 550 FOTOGRAFIE!

Originally posted on OKAY!:
https://animoto.com/play/e4Vj3hvNCqKirCuMJ2oPqA GUEST WRITER: STEFANO ALBERTI Entri in un grande albergo alle porte di Roma – il Green Palace della catena Quality Hotel, a Monterotondo – e, sorpresa, trovi esposto nella hall il volume “Francesco”, di Roberto Alborghetti, uscito esattamente sette anni fa, il 17 dicembre 2013, in occasione di una data…

MACRO PHOTOGRAPH ON ALUMINUM PLATE: THE TREE OF LIFE

“The Tree Of Life” is a macro photo on aluminum, made for my “Lacer/actions” project-research  about realistic and not manipulated images of torn and decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks and urban “signs”. The image is a magnification of cracks on a waste-container placed in Amsterdam near the Royal Palace (2012). Thanks to a sophisticated technological… Read More MACRO PHOTOGRAPH ON ALUMINUM PLATE: THE TREE OF LIFE

BELLE NOTIZIE / UFFIZI: CAPOLAVORI D’ARTE PER RACCONTARE IL NATALE AI BAMBINI

Originally posted on OKAY!:
Ecco le “Sale virtuali”: possono  accogliere dieci bimbi e anche per riunire online amici e parenti vicini e lontani: al suo ‘interno’ i narratori illustreranno ai piccoli la Natività attraverso due opere selezionate da una speciale lista. Le prenotazioni si aprono OGGI lunedì 14 dicembre. Sale virtuali in cui possono riunirsi…

THE RANDOM SHOW OF PAPER OVERLAPS ON OUTDOOR BILLBOARDS #3

© Roberto Alborghetti  What you see in this photogallery are not collages built and created deliberately with my hands, joining and sticking piece by piece, but photos of real and random torn publicity posters I saw on an outdoor billboard. They are the result of various and different overlaps – which took place over weeks… Read More THE RANDOM SHOW OF PAPER OVERLAPS ON OUTDOOR BILLBOARDS #3

THE RANDOM SHOW OF PAPER OVERLAPS ON OUTDOOR BILLBOARDS #2

© Roberto Alborghetti  What you see in this photogallery are not collages built and created deliberately with my hands, joining and sticking piece by piece, but photos of real and random torn publicity posters I saw on an outdoor billboard. They are the result of various and different overlaps – which took place over weeks… Read More THE RANDOM SHOW OF PAPER OVERLAPS ON OUTDOOR BILLBOARDS #2

VYNILS / “ALL THINGS MUST PASS”, THE HISTORIC TRIPLE ALBUM BY GEORGE HARRISON (1970)

New appointment with rare vinyls (records, 33 rpm albums or the so-called “singles”, 45 rpm records): real cult objects, as well as the covers design, to hold in your hands and caress , as today unfortunately cannot be done with digitally downloaded music. We are dealing, in two distinct episodes, with the first triple 33-rpm… Read More VYNILS / “ALL THINGS MUST PASS”, THE HISTORIC TRIPLE ALBUM BY GEORGE HARRISON (1970)

STORIES OF SEAWATER IMPRINTED ON THE HULL OF AN OLD BOAT

The pictures of this video are not paintings or digitally made compositions, but macro photos that I took for my project-research “Lacer/actions” around an old boat – and its hull – in Torre a Mare, beautiful seaside place in Apulia, Italy. It was winter. The shabby boat rested a few meters from the sea. It… Read More STORIES OF SEAWATER IMPRINTED ON THE HULL OF AN OLD BOAT

OUR CITIES IN POST- CORONA TIMES: THE FLOATING BIOTOPE OFF MANHATTAN

3deluxe’s was commissioned by New York-based organization #WeThePlanet (WTP) to create an inspirational structure that nurtures and investigates new and forward-looking opportunities for people-friendly architecture in harmony with nature. The #WeThePlanet Campus serves as a communicative platform to protect all life on land and under the sea while advancing the frontiers of design. The Campus… Read More OUR CITIES IN POST- CORONA TIMES: THE FLOATING BIOTOPE OFF MANHATTAN