At first glance they look like one of those images for the aerial photography category. Indeed, aerial photographs of a city located on the sea … You can see the network of streets and the strip that is located near the sea, which is obviously blue … But this reading is only the result of… Read More ARE THESE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SEASIDE TOWN? NO, THEY ARE SIMPLY CRACKS AND CORROSIONS
© 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
© 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
New video for my “Lacer /actions” project. The extraordinary suggestion of the cracks on a signpost of the Monterotondo railway station, in Rome area (Italy). Pure close-up photography that takes on the contours and tones of a painting. For informations and acquisition of unique and original copies of the artworks: funtasyeditrice@gmail.com * Nuovo video per… Read More SHATTERED SKIES (CIELI FRANTUMATI): MACROPHOTOS OF CRACKS
“LaceR/Actions” is a multidisciplinary project about the apparent chaos of ripped and decomposed posters and urban/street signs. Transferred on canvases, reproduced on lithographic prints or textiles (as pure silk), re-built on collages or scanned in videoclips, the images of torn and decomposed posters give new life to paper lacerations and matter decomposition, as you may see in… Read More THE SURPRISING RANDOMNESS OF TORN AND DECOMPOSED ADVERTISING POSTERS
© 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
This is the cover of the 2020/2021 edition of “LamiAgenda”, the school diary available from Summer 2020, published in Italy by I Quindici. It presents a detail of “The Third Eye” collage I created using waste paper recovered from disfigured advertising posters. I made it for my “Lacer/actions” project. It is… Read More A DETAIL OF “THE THIRD EYE” COLLAGE IS THE COVER OF “LAMIAGENDA 2020/2021”
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
Cracks is part of my Lacer/actions Project, a multidisciplinary project and research about the apparent chaos of ripped and decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks, crevices, scratches and urban and industrial corrosions (I’ve collected so far more than 120.000 photos…). Transferred on canvases, reproduced on lithographic prints or textiles, re-built on collages or scanned in videoclips, the images of natural… Read More SOME CRACKS AND DIFFERENT WAYS TO SHOW THEM
Macro Photos of Decomposed Publicity Posters. Lacer/actions Project and Research by Roberto Alborghetti. Video 2019, Soundtrack:Supreme by Das Tape Images in exclusive and original copies. For info, please contact: funtasyeditrice@gmail.com
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