“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… Read More THE CHALLENGE OF 30 CARDS: HERE IS THE #1. NOW START PLAYING YOUR GAME …
© Roberto Alborghetti I think the snail can be considered the symbol of these months related to the coronavirus pandemic. In its existence, in its slow and cautious movement, in its being protected by its shell (its home, from which it never separates), the small snail offers us great teachings. They are those who come… Read More APRIL 22, #EARTHDAY / THE WONDERFUL LESSONS OF A SMALL SNAIL #1
* 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
“Lacer/actions – Lacer/azioni” was made exactly 10 years ago: in March 2010. I created it through the Animoto platform, accepting the challenge of producing a video clip of thirty seconds of maximum duration. In the video we see some of the macro photographic images I took around advertising posters billboard. I have always been impressed… Read More RETROSPECTIVE: ADVERTISING POSTERS ON BILLBOARD AND THEIR PROCESS OF CHANGE (VIDEO, 2010)
These are not modern art paintings or pop art works. They are just macro and abstract photos of details of a disfigured wastebin, in Milan… The pictures are part of my “LaceR/Actions” project-research, which now has reached 120.000 photos taken across the world. “LaceR/Actions” is a multidisciplinary project concerning researches about decomposed and torn publicity… Read More SIGNS OF OUR TIMES / MACRO PHOTOS OF A DISFIGURED WASTEBIN
© Roberto Alborghetti Cities reveal themselves also through random images of ripped and decomposed publicity posters and natural decompositions we may see along the streets. In this gallery I gathered some macro photos I took in Amsterdam, the so called “Venice of Northern Europe”. Rugs, papers, glue, dust, spray colors residuals and other materials mixed… Read More RUGS, DUST, GLUE AND PAPER: MYSTERIOUS CODES ON THE CITY WALLS
© 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
© Roberto Alborghetti Each season has its colors. But what colors does winter have? Easy to answer, just look around … The torn advertising posters on billboards also have winter colors. So, through my macro photos I tried to imagine a color palette … Yes, trails of snow and ice, in exclusive for my LaceR/Actions research, which… Read More THE FOUR SEASONS IN LACER/ACTIONS: WINTER #3
What better way to remember a year, 2019, with twelve images, one for each month? Here are twelve images for twelve months, selected from the approximately 12,000 that I captured in 2019. From January to December, traveling through colors and emotions, through macro photographs that tell the reality that surrounds us … As is… Read More 12 PICS (FOR 12 MONTHS) SELECTED FROM THE 12.000 MACRO PHOTOS TAKEN IN 2019
© Roberto Alborghetti Each season has its colors. But what colors does winter have? Easy to answer, just look around … The torn advertising posters also have winter colors. So, through my macro photos I tried to imagine a color palette … Yes, trails of snow and ice, in exclusive for my LaceR/Actions research, which is… Read More THE FOUR SEASONS IN LACER/ACTIONS: WINTER #1
Here is another video created 10 years ago. Exactly in December 2009. The intent and goal was to express good wishes with my “Lacer / actions” project. So, I wanted to assemble torn up advertising posters with the characteristic of having stars. Yes, Xmas Stars! So here is Stars & Tears video. With best wishes… Read More RETROSPECTIVE / SEASON’S GREETINGS: STARS FROM 2009 (VIDEO)
It was just a cracked surface of an iron stool. The green paint was corroded in several places. A close-up photographic shot gave the image a different meaning. Is it a jungle seen from above? A glimpse of forest? A trampled lawn? It is certainly an image of Cracks. Cracks is part of my Lacer/actions Project which investigates… Read More THE CRACKS FILES / JUST A CORRODED SURFACE ON AN IRON STOOL
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