Funtasy, an Italian publishing company, is proposing to the Italian kids and schools a story in episodes, entitled “The day when Cattivirus was knocked out” (Cattivirus means “bad virus“). The aim is to involve teachers, families and children in an activity during the national coronavirus emergency days. The story that I wrote – illustrated by… Read More “LET’S K.O. COVID-19!”: DRAWINGS AND COLORS FROM ITALIAN SCHOOLS
Here is the cover of the 2020/2021 edition of LAMIAGENDA, classic square version (16 cm x 16 cm). The unmistakable cover is based on the artwork by Roberto Alborghetti (collage created with waste paper of advertising posters). * Ecco la copertina dell’edizione 2020/2021 de LAMIAGENDA, versione classica quadrata (16 cm x 16 cm). Inconfondibile… Read More A COLLAGE FOR THE COVER OF LAMIAGENDA 2020/2021
“Games in the Sky”, Collage (48 x 43,5 cms) made with waste paper of advertising posters. Artwork by Roberto Alborghetti for “Lacer/actions” project and research. The collage will be the cover of the best selling school diary “LamiAgenda 2020/2021”.
“Lacer/actions – Lacer/azioni” was made exactly 10 years ago: in March 2010. I created it through the Animoto platform, accepting the challenge of producing a video clip of thirty seconds of maximum duration. In the video we see some of the macro photographic images I took around advertising posters billboard. I have always been impressed… Read More RETROSPECTIVE: ADVERTISING POSTERS ON BILLBOARD AND THEIR PROCESS OF CHANGE (VIDEO, 2010)
On March 9, the Uffizi Galleries will be launching the Challenge live, at the Garzoni exhibition’s Press Conference / Inauguration at the Pitti Palace’s famed Sala Bianca. During the Florence event, Gallery Director Eike Schmidt will share the concept of the Uffizi as a ‘living museum’ and its efforts in recent years to spotlight art… Read More UFFIZI GALLERIES: “THE GARZONI CHALLENGE” DEDICATED TO A GREAT FEMALE PAINTER (1600 – 1670)
These are not modern art paintings or pop art works. They are just macro and abstract photos of details of a disfigured wastebin, in Milan… The pictures are part of my “LaceR/Actions” project-research, which now has reached 120.000 photos taken across the world. “LaceR/Actions” is a multidisciplinary project concerning researches about decomposed and torn publicity… Read More SIGNS OF OUR TIMES / MACRO PHOTOS OF A DISFIGURED WASTEBIN
History and memory are important, because they not only communicate to us what we have been, but they open windows on the future. This is the meaning of the Museum of ancient Parchements which the Municipal Administration of Bianchi (Cosenza, Calabria, South Italy) intends to increasingly enhance and promote, as confirmed by the mayor prof.… Read More THE MUSEUM OF ANCIENT PARCHMENTS IN BIANCHI (CALABRIA, ITALY): A SPACE FOR MEMORY AND HISTORY
© Roberto Alborghetti Cities reveal themselves also through random images of ripped and decomposed publicity posters and natural decompositions we may see along the streets. In this gallery I gathered some macro photos I took in Amsterdam, the so called “Venice of Northern Europe”. Rugs, papers, glue, dust, spray colors residuals and other materials mixed… Read More RUGS, DUST, GLUE AND PAPER: MYSTERIOUS CODES ON THE CITY WALLS
© Roberto Alborghetti These pictures aren’t paintings (oils, acrylics, watercolors or digital works), but just natural, random and not manipulated images of the amazing imperfection of the real world we see around us. They are photos: I took them in Rome on walls, advertising billboards, gates, wastebins… Free abstract and informal art along the… Read More THE AMAZING IMPERFECTION OF THE WORLD AROUND US: 12 ABSTRACT PHOTOS FROM ROME
Originally posted on OKAY!:
Risalgono al primo secolo dopo Cristo. In collezione entrano anche due epigrafi, dello stesso periodo Due sculture femminili di epoca romana arricchiscono da oggi la vasta raccolta di oltre milleduecento marmi romani posseduta dalle Gallerie degli Uffizi. Le opere, insieme a due epigrafi anch’esse romane, sono state acquistate dal museo nell’ambito…
New video for my “Lacer /actions” project. The extraordinary suggestion of the cracks on a signpost of the Monterotondo railway station, in Rome area (Italy). Pure close-up photography that takes on the contours and tones of a painting. For informations and acquisition of unique and original copies of the artworks: funtasyeditrice@gmail.com * Nuovo video per… Read More SHATTERED SKIES (CIELI FRANTUMATI): MACROPHOTOS OF CRACKS
ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI 