Walking along the beaches of Giardini Naxos, near Taormina (Sicily, Italy) I noticed an old boat in bad conditions, waiting for a restoration. My eyes were immediately drawn to the colors on the sides and hull. After thousands of hours of navigation, the paint had corroded and decomposed. It was as if the water of… Read More SUMMER VISIONS / CRACKS AND CORRODED PAINT ON A BOAT IN GIARDINI NAXOS, SICILY #5
Walking along the beaches of Giardini Naxos, near Taormina (Sicily, Italy) I noticed an old boat in bad conditions, waiting for a restoration. My eyes were immediately drawn to the colors on the sides and hull. After thousands of hours of navigation, the paint had corroded and decomposed. It was as if the water of… Read More SUMMER VISIONS / CRACKS AND CORRODED PAINT ON A BOAT IN GIARDINI NAXOS, SICILY #4
Walking along the beaches of Giardini Naxos, near Taormina (Sicily, Italy) I noticed an old boat in bad conditions, waiting for a restoration. My eyes were immediately drawn to the colors on the sides and hull. After thousands of hours of navigation, the paint had corroded and decomposed. It was as if the water of… Read More SUMMER VISIONS / CRACKS AND CORRODED PAINT ON A BOAT IN GIARDINI NAXOS, SICILY #3
Walking along the beaches of Giardini Naxos, near Taormina (Sicily, Italy) I noticed an old boat in bad conditions, waiting for a restoration. My eyes were immediately drawn to the colors on the sides and hull. After thousands of hours of navigation, the paint had corroded and decomposed. It was as if the water of… Read More SUMMER VISIONS / CRACKS AND CORRODED PAINT ON A BOAT IN GIARDINI NAXOS, SICILY #2
The artwork in the photo is made by © 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… Read More FROM STREET WALLS TO INTERIOR DESIGN: ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPH AS ARTISTIC FURNISHING COMPLEMENT #7
Walking along the beaches of Giardini Naxos, near Taormina (Sicily, Italy) I noticed an old boat in bad conditions, waiting for a restoration. My eyes were immediately drawn to the colors on the sides and hull. After thousands of hours of navigation, the paint had corroded and decomposed. It was as if the water of… Read More SUMMER VISIONS / CRACKS AND CORRODED PAINT ON A BOAT IN GIARDINI NAXOS, SICILY #1
Just as one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, the same is true for a monument’s exterior. Take the case of the Tempio Civico dell’Incoronata in Lodi, located along a narrow street leading from Piazza Vittoria, a few steps from the Romanesque cathedral. Access to the Tempio Civico—the people of Lodi don’t call it… Read More PLACES / A MASTERPIECE OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: THE “TEMPIO CIVICO” IN LODI (LOMBARDY)
© Roberto Alborghetti – – Close-up photography; this is not a digitally created, manipulated or enhanced image. – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine manipolata o creata digitalmente. There is a free and spontaneous form of art that flows before our eyes every day, perhaps without us realizing it.It is the one that appears on… Read More ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF SCRATCHES ON A THEATRE CHAIR (IMAGE #41)
Here is “Vorticism #1”! It’s a collage I created for my Lacer/actions project using hundreds of pieces of waste paper of advertising posters. The image was chosen for the cover of the new FUNDIARIO, the Italian school diary published by Funtasy Editrice. FUNDIARIO is distributed in many Italian schools and this year the theme of… Read More “VORTICISM #1”: THIS IS THE COVER OF THE NEW “FUNDIARIO” OUT ON NEXT SEPTEMBER
© Roberto Alborghetti There are eyes that always “look” at us. They are those of the faces on the advertising posters on the walls or on the billboards, along the streets of our cities. The torn paper of the advertisements, consumed by time and bad weather, can reveal interesting glimpses and elements, such as those… Read More SOMEONE IS WATCHING US FROM THE WALLS / PHOTOS OF EYES IN TORN AND DECOMPOSED PUBLICITY POSTERS (#6)
© Roberto Alborghetti – Close-up photography; it is not a digitally created, manipulated or enhanced image – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine creata o modificata digitalmente. This image may look like a painting depicting a sky that has shattered under the blows of the global warming. Or it could also be the reproduction of… Read More CRACKS, WHEN THE MATTER IS SHATTERED BY TIME (AND WEATHER): THE RAILWAY WARNING SIGN NEAR ROME #9
In my close-up photographs of decompositions and disfigurement of the urban environment, we often recognize figurative elements. As in the case of this image, captured on an advertisement board. It is not a painting. It is not an acrylic. It is not an oil. And not even a collage. It is a simple photographic image.… Read More CELEBRATING THE “MOON DAY 2025” WITH A PHOTO OF TORN PUBLICITY POSTER
Just recently—July 16, 17, and 18, 2010: 15 years ago—my macro photographs from “Lacer/azioni” were exhibited (theme: “The 4 Elements”) at the futuristic Oriocenter, one of the largest and most visited shopping malls in Italy. The artworks (photographs, not paintings as almost everyone thought!) were set against the backdrop of Milan-Bergamo Orio Airport and the… Read More 15 YEARS AGO MY EXHIBITION ON THE 4 ELEMENTS: IMAGES ON THE DECOMPOSITION OF MATTER
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