“SAILING THE APOCALYPSE”: MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY AND WORDS (MODERN HAIKU #15)

“SAILING THE APOCALYPSE” – ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI, 2009, MILAN – ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT OWNED BY MEREDITH DEERHEART * In the end, I knew not whether life occurred or dissipated amidst plumes of steam rising, collapsing, re-forming light and dark as crystalline mists dissolved all memory of horizons. * Meredith Deerheart * “PICTURES AND THERAPY” This lithographic… Read More “SAILING THE APOCALYPSE”: MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY AND WORDS (MODERN HAIKU #15)

RETROSPECTIVE / 10 YEARS AGO MY SHOW AT PARALLAX ART FAIR IN LONDON

Article posted 10 years ago after my participation at Parallax Art Fair in London. The Parallax AF days are over. The art show at La Galleria (Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall) in London was surely a good occasion to meet artists and people. During the three days exhibition and the two private views, I had… Read More RETROSPECTIVE / 10 YEARS AGO MY SHOW AT PARALLAX ART FAIR IN LONDON

“THIS MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY IS REAL POP ART AVANT-GARDE”: IN MEMORY OF LINO LAZZARI, ART CRITICIAN

An article written 10 years ago, in the summer of 2011. My macro photography artworks in the review signed by an authoritative art critician: Lino Lazzari, professional journalist, writer, priest in love with art and life, dean in Italy of communication on art, a long editorial militancy for the newspaper “L’Eco di Bergamo”, author of… Read More “THIS MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY IS REAL POP ART AVANT-GARDE”: IN MEMORY OF LINO LAZZARI, ART CRITICIAN

NEW YORK, NINE ELEVEN 2001-2021: REMEMBERING A TRAGEDY THROUGH ART

* * * Artworks by Roberto Alborghetti. In memory of 2.977 Victims&Martyrs. In the 20th Anniversary of WTC massacre. * Title of the work: Nine Eleven 2001, New York Macrophotography on Canvas + Mixed media, 2011, 46,5 x 70 cm Silk scarf created in collaboration with Bruno Boggia Studio, Como, Italy * NINE ELEVEN:  REMEMBERING… Read More NEW YORK, NINE ELEVEN 2001-2021: REMEMBERING A TRAGEDY THROUGH ART

THE YELLOW YEAR / CRACKS LIKE MIMOSAS TO CELEBRATE MARCH 8

© ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI Pantone has chosen the yellow color – also in combination with gray – as the color of the year 2021. During my chromatic research of the “Lacer / actions” project I encountered several situations in which yellow was predominant in the color palette. Both as regards the decomposed advertising posters and for… Read More THE YELLOW YEAR / CRACKS LIKE MIMOSAS TO CELEBRATE MARCH 8

CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #4

Someone wrote that my “Lacer/actions” artworks – macro photos of torn posters and urban materials – are a sort of evolutional forms by which some unidentified and indefinite entities try to communicate with us… At first I smiled hearing  this comment. Now – after having “captured” strange and unusual images in thousands – I’m not… Read More CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #4

CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #3

Someone wrote that my “Lacer/actions” artworks – macro photos of torn posters and urban materials – are a sort of evolutional forms by which some unidentified and indefinite entities try to communicate with us… At first I smiled hearing this comment. Now – after having “captured” strange and unusual images in thousands – I’m not… Read More CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #3

CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #2

Someone wrote that my “Lacer/actions” artworks – macro photos of torn posters and urban materials – are a sort of evolutional forms by which some unidentified and indefinite entities try to communicate with us… At first I smiled hearing this comment. Now – after having “captured” strange and unusual images in thousands – I’m not… Read More CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #2

CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #1

Someone wrote that my “Lacer/actions” artworks – macro photos of torn posters and urban materials – are a sort of evolutional forms by which some unidentified and indefinite entities try to communicate with us… At first I smiled hearing this comment. Now – after having “captured” strange and unusual images in thousands – I’m not… Read More CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #1

“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”

MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY ON SILK SCARVES (LIMITED EDITION SERIES)

Renato Aquino – from Portugal (Ourem) – is a successful Senior Operations Manager, Catering Manager and skilled hospitality professional. Through LinkedIn profiles he had the way to see my artistic silk scarves. He was really struck by the unusual design and he acquired the all series of three doing some special gifts.  Renato sent me… Read More MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY ON SILK SCARVES (LIMITED EDITION SERIES)

MACRO PHOTO #30 / HERE IS THE LAST CARD: CRACKS (AS MAPS) ON THE GHOST BUS

“I see with an eye that feels, I feel with a hand that sees” (J. W. Von Goethe). A few years ago, the images of my artistic project “Lacer/actions” were used to offer groups of people a sort of psychological game, in order to provoke thoughts, comments, emotions, moods. I must say that, from what… Read More MACRO PHOTO #30 / HERE IS THE LAST CARD: CRACKS (AS MAPS) ON THE GHOST BUS

MACRO PHOTO #29 / THE GAME OF 30 CARDS: ANOTHER SKY FROM THE GHOST BUS

“I see with an eye that feels, I feel with a hand that sees” (J. W. Von Goethe). A few years ago, the images of my artistic project “Lacer/actions” were used to offer groups of people a sort of psychological game, in order to provoke thoughts, comments, emotions, moods. I must say that, from what… Read More MACRO PHOTO #29 / THE GAME OF 30 CARDS: ANOTHER SKY FROM THE GHOST BUS