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THE OTHER MARSEILLE (L’AUTRE MARSEILLE): AN OPEN-AIR CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY – IMAGE #1

All cities, even the smallest, always hold many surprises for my research into the art of decay and deterioration. I have no difficulty identifying marks, scratches, corrosion, cracks, and various disfigurements. After all, all of this speaks to the vitality of a city, an urban center. The passage of time, and of people, deposits practical… Read More THE OTHER MARSEILLE (L’AUTRE MARSEILLE): AN OPEN-AIR CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY – IMAGE #1

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COLORS PALETTE IN AMSTERDAM: PHOTO OF RUST, DUST AND DETERIORATED PAPER ON THE WALLS #3

© 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 #3

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THE INVISIBLE WALL / CLOSE-UP PHOTOS OF URBAN DECAY IN LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND – IMAGE #1

© Roberto Alborghetti  In Locarno, a beautiful city in Italian-speaking Switzerland, I happened upon a wall that immediately caught my attention. It’s located near the cycle/pedestrian path that leads from Locarno to Ascona. The structure is close to a sports center and perhaps even forms part of it, being at the rear of the building.… Read More THE INVISIBLE WALL / CLOSE-UP PHOTOS OF URBAN DECAY IN LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND – IMAGE #1

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THESE WORKS “BECOME METAPHORS OF HUMAN FRAGILITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF REGENERATION”

GUEST WRITER: PATRIZIA POGGI, Art expert and Ambassador of Saperi e Sapori d’Italia Roberto Alborghetti captures with photography the details of torn advertising posters, cracks on walls, or signs of wear on means of transport, transforming them into collages, prints on canvas or installations. These fragments, destined for oblivion, become metaphors of human fragility, resilience… Read More THESE WORKS “BECOME METAPHORS OF HUMAN FRAGILITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF REGENERATION”

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ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF A WORN STICKER ON THE FLOOR OF A RAILWAY STATION (IMAGE #31)

© 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 A WORN STICKER ON THE FLOOR OF A RAILWAY STATION (IMAGE #31)

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ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF MOLD AND MOISTURE ON THE SURFACE OF A SMALL DOOR (IMAGE #29)

© Roberto Alborghetti – Close-up photography; it is not a digitally manipulated image – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine manipolata 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 the things that surround us… Read More ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF MOLD AND MOISTURE ON THE SURFACE OF A SMALL DOOR (IMAGE #29)

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STORIES OF SEA WATER / PHOTOS OF CORROSIONS AND CRACKS ON A MOTORBOAT IN TAORMINA (SICILY, ITALY) #8

© Roberto Alborghetti – Close-up photography; it is not a digitally manipulated image – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine manipolata digitalmente. Two years ago, along the coast of Taormina-Giardini Naxos (Sicily, Italy) I noticed two motorboats in bad conditions, as if they were waiting for a cure, a restoration. My eyes were immediately… Read More STORIES OF SEA WATER / PHOTOS OF CORROSIONS AND CRACKS ON A MOTORBOAT IN TAORMINA (SICILY, ITALY) #8

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THAT EXHIBITION IN JULY 2010: AND PEOPLE REALIZED THAT DECAY CAN BECOME ART

Precisely in these days – 16,17 and 18 July 2010 – my macro photographs of “Lacer/actionsi” Project were displayed in the futuristic setting of Oriocenter, one of the largest and most visited shopping centers in Italy. The artworks (they were photographs, not paintings as almost everyone thought!) were placed against the background of the Milan-Bergamo… Read More THAT EXHIBITION IN JULY 2010: AND PEOPLE REALIZED THAT DECAY CAN BECOME ART

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THE DEFACED ADVERTISING POSTERS ON BILLBOARDS / THE PORTFOLIO OF THE BEST SHOTS #15

© Roberto Alborghetti The reality that surrounds us often takes on surprising forms of art. Like the advertising posters: defaced, torn and decomposed naturally and spontaneously papers. There are those who reconstructed them on canvas. But I think it’s even more beautiful to admire them freely along the streets of our cities. And photograph them:… Read More THE DEFACED ADVERTISING POSTERS ON BILLBOARDS / THE PORTFOLIO OF THE BEST SHOTS #15

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