Categoria: Uncategorized

LETTING ME GO (ON WAVES): COLLAGE ON A TABLE MADE WITH 1.258 PIECES OF WASTE-PAPER FROM DECOMPOSED PUBLICITY POSTERS

* This work for my “Lacer/actions” project is a collage made on a table using 1.258 waste-paper pieces of torn and decomposed outdoor advertisings. I gathered every single paper pieces along the streets, after the old publicity posters were torn down from the billboards. Its title is : “Letting me go (on Waves)” inspired by… Read More LETTING ME GO (ON WAVES): COLLAGE ON A TABLE MADE WITH 1.258 PIECES OF WASTE-PAPER FROM DECOMPOSED PUBLICITY POSTERS

Roberto AlborghettiLascia un commento

“THE GHOST BUS”: FROM UNITED KINGDOM TO ITALY…GREAT ARTICLES ON ENGLISH AND ITALIAN PRESS

Two Countries (UK and Italy), two regions (East Midlands and Tuscany), two cities (Nottingham and Siena), two popular heroes (Robin Hood and Ghino di Tacco) and one project: “The Ghost Bus”. As already announced, after the great welcome in Beeston (last March 2015), the amazing project by Roberto Alborghetti, Bartons Plc and Act Group will… Read More “THE GHOST BUS”: FROM UNITED KINGDOM TO ITALY…GREAT ARTICLES ON ENGLISH AND ITALIAN PRESS

Roberto Alborghetti2 commenti

“THE GHOST BUS”: THE ITALIAN PREMIERE IN TUSCANY… JOIN THE WONDERFUL “ACT  TOUR” FROM UK TO ITALY TO FOLLOW THE EVENTS

  After the great success in Nottingham, on last March, the Italian-British project “The Ghost Bus” is coming to Italy .On October 24-25,  2015 ,  the “Italian premiere” of the short film I made with Bartons PLC and Act Group will take place in the wonderful Tuscany, on Monte Amiata, Piancastagnaio, Siena. Italian people will… Read More “THE GHOST BUS”: THE ITALIAN PREMIERE IN TUSCANY… JOIN THE WONDERFUL “ACT  TOUR” FROM UK TO ITALY TO FOLLOW THE EVENTS

Roberto AlborghettiLascia un commento

DRAGOONS, ALIENS, MONSTERS AND GHOSTS…: ABSTRACTS FROM LAMEZIA TERME STREETS (THE VIDEOCLIP)

*** These images aren’t paintings, but abstract photos of the world around us. They were taken from poles along the streets in Lamezia Terme (Italy). They are part of Roberto Alborghetti ‘s project and research (called “Lacer/actions”) about decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks and scratches, urban and industrial matters. Soundtrack: Crossing Destiny, Audiomachine.

Roberto AlborghettiLascia un commento

BLUE CRACKING ICE… MAGNIFICATIONS OF DECOMPOSED CERAMICS IN VIETRI (AMALFI COAST, ITALY)

* A few weeks ago in Vietri, the Amalfi Coast town (Italy) famous for its wonderful ceramics, my eyes have been attracted by an unusual and spectacular corrosion. The surface of a fountain, not far from the beach, showed an exceptional cracking. The blue ceramic, of which the structure was made, had undergone a process… Read More BLUE CRACKING ICE… MAGNIFICATIONS OF DECOMPOSED CERAMICS IN VIETRI (AMALFI COAST, ITALY)

Roberto Alborghetti2 commenti

THEY WERE “COLORS OF AN APOCALYPSE”: SCENES FROM THE EXHIBITION (THE VIDEOCLIP)

* Scenes from the ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI exhibition  (Colors Of An Apocalypse / The Decomposed Publicity Posters). It took place in LENNO, LAKE COMO, from 3 to 5 July, 2015, in the amazing setting of St. John Baptistery (XI CenturY). Soundtrack: God of The Drow – Audiomachine * Immagini dalla mostra di ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI (LaceR/Azioni), svoltasi… Read More THEY WERE “COLORS OF AN APOCALYPSE”: SCENES FROM THE EXHIBITION (THE VIDEOCLIP)

Roberto AlborghettiLascia un commento

“INTO THE PLACE CALLED ‘MEGIDDO’ ” / SPECIAL PREVIEW # 3 OF MY “COLORS OF AN APOCALYPSE” EXHIBIT

16:16 “He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo”. * “Radunarono I re della terra in un luogo che in ebraico si chiama ‘Armaghedòn’ ”. * 2012, Tela / Canvas/ Mixed media 70×50 This is not a painting or a digitally made picture, but an abstract photo of a decomposed… Read More “INTO THE PLACE CALLED ‘MEGIDDO’ ” / SPECIAL PREVIEW # 3 OF MY “COLORS OF AN APOCALYPSE” EXHIBIT

Roberto AlborghettiLascia un commento

SPECIAL PREVIEW # 1 / MY UPCOMING “COLORS OF AN APOCALYPSE” EXHIBITION ON LAKE COMO (JULY 3-5)  

   6:13 “The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind”. “Le stelle del cielo caddero sulla terra, come i fichi cadono dall’albero, quando è colpito da vento impetuoso”. 2011, Tela / Canvas/ Mixed media 63,5×40,5 * This is… Read More SPECIAL PREVIEW # 1 / MY UPCOMING “COLORS OF AN APOCALYPSE” EXHIBITION ON LAKE COMO (JULY 3-5)  

Roberto Alborghetti10 commenti

A GREAT SONG BY JAZZ SINGER JEANIE BARTON GOES WITH MY ABSTRACT WORKS CAUGHT “LIVE” IN NOTTINGHAM STREETS

* A great song by jazz singer and composer Jeanie Barton pushed me to create this videoclip displaying 38 abstract photos I took in March visiting Nottingham City (East Midlands, United Kingdom); I already posted an article about this images series: https://robertoalborghetti.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/the-nottingham-you-didnt-expect-modern-art-under-the-sky-and-along-the-streets-2/ Jeanie Barton lives in Nottingham (please, read some few lines of her biography… Read More A GREAT SONG BY JAZZ SINGER JEANIE BARTON GOES WITH MY ABSTRACT WORKS CAUGHT “LIVE” IN NOTTINGHAM STREETS

Roberto Alborghetti5 commenti

VIDEO-PORTFOLIO # 1: 24 LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS… “A POST APOCALYPTIC LANDSCAPE”

* “These take us back to the prehistoric art at Lascaux while pushing us forward into a post apocalyptic landscape featuring ruins of our own global civilization.” Jonathan E.Raddatz, Artist, Canada   Video-portfolio about Lithographic Prints from Lacer/actions Project by Roberto Alborghetti. The images of the videoclip aren’t paintings or digitally made works, but simply… Read More VIDEO-PORTFOLIO # 1: 24 LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS… “A POST APOCALYPTIC LANDSCAPE”

Roberto Alborghetti7 commenti

THE ANCIENT “PHARMACY” OF S. MARIA NOVELLA: 400 YEARS OF HISTORY IN THE VERY HEART OF FLORENCE

© Photos: ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI / OFFICINA PROFUMO-FARMACEUTICA S.M.NOVELLA, FLORENCE (Italy) * Last Friday night, the 22th of May, 2015, the presentation of my new book “Quando il giorno era una freccia” (English translation: “When the Day was an Arrow”) took place in Florence in the historical rooms of the ancient “Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica of Santa Maria… Read More THE ANCIENT “PHARMACY” OF S. MARIA NOVELLA: 400 YEARS OF HISTORY IN THE VERY HEART OF FLORENCE

Roberto Alborghetti5 commenti