© Roberto Alborghetti In Amsterdam city I have always taken lot of photos along streets, as all the others I collected so far. Along a street behind Magna Plaza – a big shopping center in the very heart of Amsterdam – I was attracted by an incredible “palette” located on a door hiding a sort… Read More COLORS PALETTE IN AMSTERDAM: PHOTO OF RUST, DUST AND DETERIORATED PAPER ON THE WALLS #1
In the province of Frosinone, not far from Rome, there is a special image (and in some ways full of mystery and charm). It is an ancient fresco: the “Labyrinth of Alatri”. It is kept in the former Convent of San Francesco, dating back to 1359 and now used as an exhibition hall. Here, in… Read More MYSTERY AND FASCINATION IN THE LABYRINTH OF ALATRI (13th CENTURY) PERHAPS CONNECTED TO THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
© 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
© Roberto Alborghetti I had written, in a previous post, a few months ago, about the popular reaction in London against the attempt to eliminate the characteristic and iconic red telephone booths from public streets. The project was fortunately stopped. The telephone booths have been saved for now. And so there are also those who… Read More LONDON: THE SMALLEST ART GALLERY IS IN A RED PHONE BOX RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
© Roberto Alborghetti – Lacer/actions Yes, there is an incredible world under our feet. These are some of the images I took walking along the streets of Rome (Italy). They’re about magnifications of a cracked pedestrian crossing. They are part of “LaceR/Actions”, a multidisciplinary project and research about street macrophotography of ripped and decomposed publicity posters,… Read More MACROPHOTOGRAPHY OF A CRACKED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING: THE AMAZING WORLD UNDER OUR FEET
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
* * * 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
Pantone announced its colors of the year for 2021: PANTONE Ultimate Gray and PANTONE Illuminating. Selecting two colors for only the second time in 22 years, Pantone described the chosen yellow and gray as independent but complementary, representing a theme of unity and mutual support. Whereas PANTONE Illuminating is bright and vivacious, Ultimate Gray is… Read More THE YELLOW YEAR / SCRATCHES ON “CENTRAL WASTE” IN BEESTON, NOTTINGHAM, UK
“The Tree Of Life” is a macro photo on aluminum, made for my “Lacer/actions” project-research about realistic and not manipulated images of torn and decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks and urban “signs”. The image is a magnification of cracks on a waste-container placed in Amsterdam near the Royal Palace (2012). Thanks to a sophisticated technological… Read More MACRO PHOTOGRAPH ON ALUMINUM PLATE: THE TREE OF LIFE
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)
* This videoclip presents a series of pictures about “a journey through special painterly colors and materials” and the wonderful experience involving children with disabilities and carriers of the Syndrome of Autism Spectrum. It’s nice to remember it, when we celebrate the World Autism Awereness Day 2020 (April 2). Patrizia Sapri led with passion and… Read More WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS DAY 2020: AN EXPERIENCE OF COLORS AND EMOTIONS
A video to celebrate the World Water Day 2020, on 22 March. The pictures of the video are not paintings or digitally made compositions, but abstract and macro photos that I took for my project-research “Lacer/actions” around an old boat – and its hull – in Torre a Mare, beautiful seaside place in Apulia, Italy.… Read More MACRO PHOTOS FOR “THE WORLD WATER DAY” (MARCH 22): THE SHAPES OF SEA WATER
© 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
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