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VISITING ROME IN JUBILEE 2025 / THE FRESCOES BY MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI IN CAPPELLA PAOLINA

© Roberto Alborghetti I had a very special gift: the possibility to visit some of the beautiful rooms in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. I been also in the enchanting Cappella Paolina (the Pauline Chapel) to admire the incredible fresco paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti : The Crucifixion of St. Peter (c.… Read More VISITING ROME IN JUBILEE 2025 / THE FRESCOES BY MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI IN CAPPELLA PAOLINA

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FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPH AS ARTISTIC FURNISHING COMPLEMENT #4

© Roberto Alborghetti How might the photographic images I took for my project “Lacer/azioni” appear inside a house or a studio? Technology can help us imagine an answer to the question. In this series of images, here are some solutions. I think it is curious to think of placing, as furnishing accessories, photographs that I… Read More FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPH AS ARTISTIC FURNISHING COMPLEMENT #4

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IN MEMORY OF BRUNO BOGGIA, TEXTILE DESIGNER WHO WORKED WITH THE BIG NAMES OF INTERNATIONAL FASHION

Last February, Bruno Boggia, internationally renowned textile designer, passed away in Como, Italy, at the age of 97. I had the opportunity to collaborate with him on the creation of three special limited-edition silk scarves based on my abstract photographs taken along the streets of the world (see photos below). He worked for Capucci, Lacroix,… Read More IN MEMORY OF BRUNO BOGGIA, TEXTILE DESIGNER WHO WORKED WITH THE BIG NAMES OF INTERNATIONAL FASHION

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FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPH AS ARTISTIC FURNISHING COMPLEMENT #3

© Roberto Alborghetti How might the photographic images I took for my project “Lacer/azioni” appear inside a house or a studio? Technology can help us imagine an answer to the question. In this series of images, here are some solutions. I think it is curious to think of placing, as furnishing accessories, photographs that I… Read More FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPH AS ARTISTIC FURNISHING COMPLEMENT #3

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FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPH AS ARTISTIC FURNISHING COMPLEMENT #2

© Roberto Alborghetti How might the photographic images I took for my project “Lacer/azioni” appear inside a house or a studio? Technology can help us imagine an answer to the question. In this series of images, here are some solutions. I think it is curious to think of placing, as furnishing accessories, photographs that I… Read More FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPH AS ARTISTIC FURNISHING COMPLEMENT #2

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FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHS AS ARTISTIC COMPLEMENTS #1

© Roberto Alborghetti – LaceR/Actions; On the wall: Photo reproduced on Aluminum plate, 80x 60. How might the photographic images I took for my project “Lacer/azioni” appear inside a house or a studio? Technology can help us imagine an answer to the question. In this series of images, here are some solutions. I think it… Read More FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHS AS ARTISTIC COMPLEMENTS #1

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LIKE SNOW ON A RED CARPET: MAGNIFICATIONS OF CRACKS AND CORROSIONS ALONG VICTORIA EMBANKMENT IN LONDON

© Roberto Alborghetti  This photo gallery – in festive colours: the images look like snow deposited on a red carpet – features 9 enlargements of random images of red cracks and scratches that I took in London, in October 2014, for my project “Lacer/Actions” and research on decomposed and dismantled advertising posters, natural cracks, industrial… Read More LIKE SNOW ON A RED CARPET: MAGNIFICATIONS OF CRACKS AND CORROSIONS ALONG VICTORIA EMBANKMENT IN LONDON

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FOUR MACROPHOTOS OF SCRATCHES GO ON ALUMINUM AS A COMPLEMENT OF INTERIOR DESIGN

© Roberto Alborghetti – LaceR/Actions, esclusively for Fai Service Italy © Roberto Alborghetti – LaceR/Actions, esclusively for Fai Service Italy © Roberto Alborghetti – LaceR/Actions, esclusively for Fai Service Italy © Roberto Alborghetti – LaceR/Actions, esclusively for Fai Service Italy © Roberto Alborghetti – LaceR/Actions, esclusively for Fai Service Italy In the pictures: four macrophotos… Read More FOUR MACROPHOTOS OF SCRATCHES GO ON ALUMINUM AS A COMPLEMENT OF INTERIOR DESIGN

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THE OTHER SIDE OF DETERIORATION AROUND US : FOUR PHOTOS FROM CITIES WALLS

The other side of decomposition. In the gallery: four macro photos of torn posters and deteriorated urban materials. These are not manipulated or digitally enhanced pics. They simply are macrophotos. I captured them on the cities walls around the world. Related articles: The New Contemporary Art Museum of Marche (italy) Will Keep a Roberto Alborghetti… Read More THE OTHER SIDE OF DETERIORATION AROUND US : FOUR PHOTOS FROM CITIES WALLS

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NEW YORK, NINE ELEVEN 2001-2024: REMEMBERING A TRAGEDY THROUGH ART

* * * Artworks by Roberto Alborghetti. In memory of 2.977 Victims&Martyrs. In the 23th 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 2001-2024: REMEMBERING A TRAGEDY THROUGH ART

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“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)

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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

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