© 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
© 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
Video created by Roberto Alborghetti, for Lacer/actions project and research about torn and decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks and scratches, industrial and urban decompositions. They’re not paintings, but…simple macro photos of the reality around us. To celebrate today The World Kids Coloring Day.
Photos © Roberto Alborghetti Catania is an underrated city. Second in Sicily by population, after Palermo, it has ancient origins – it was founded by the Calcidesi in 729 BC. – and aligns an architectural, artistic and historical heritage of great prestige. Many miss the fact that its monumental historic center has been recognized as… Read More SICILIAN DAYS / CATANIA, AN EXTRAORDINARY SHOWCASE OF HISTORY, ART AND CULTURE
© 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
I created this video for my “Lacer/actions” project-research about torn and decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks and scratches, industrial and urban matters. The Black ‘n’ White photos were taken in Bari (Italy). They show what remains after an advertising poster has been torn because it has expired. For Info: okayredazione@gmail.com
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
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
I made this video for my “Lacer/actions” project and research. It is part of a project concerning the Four Seasons “, seen and told through my street macro photographs of the torn and decomposed advertising posters. The first video is dedicated to Winter. The soundtrack by Antonio Vivaldi is inevitable: the track is the famous… Read More VIVALDI’S WINTER AND 31 STREET MACRO PHOTOGRAPHS
“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
Yes, there is an amazing paper sky over Milan… In these video I collected some of the macro images I took walking along the streets of Milan (Italy). They’re macro and abstract photos of a decomposed publicity poster I saw on an outdoor billboard. The pictures are part of LaceR/Actions”, a multidisciplinary project and research… Read More SKIES OF PAPER IN MILAN / MACRO PHOTOS OF DECOMPOSED PUBLICITY POSTERS
“Rainbows” video is the third collaboration with jazz singer and composer Jeanie Barton. Her wonderful voice goes with my abstract photos: colors of decomposed papers of torn publicity posters and natural cracks and scratches. “Rainbows” song is from the new album released by Jeanie: “Moments of Clarity”. I’m so proud about this clip which mixes and matches… Read More “RAINBOWS” VIDEO: A JOURNEY OF WONDER WITH THE VOICE OF JEANIE BARTON
“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
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