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)
“Mixed colors of Beethoven” was also created exactly 10 years ago: in September 13, 2009. I created it through the Animoto platform, accepting the challenge of producing a video clip of thirty seconds of maximum duration. I took some of the macro photographic images of torn advertising posters and mixed them with an unmistakable music:… Read More RETROSPECTIVE #2: MIXED COLORS OF BEETHOVEN (VIDEO, 2009)
Global Warming, Global Warning…The world is burning! Collage made on wood with about 600 pieces of waste paper of decomposed publicity posters. Sizes: 110 x 57 cms. Created by Roberto Alborghetti for Lacer/actions project-research. Info: funtasyeditrice@gmail.com
After the advertisement has been torn and removed from the billboards, traces and marks of ink, glue and residuals of paper can be glimpsed on the surface. In my opinion, this is a unique spectacle. An open-air exhibition. Our eye can read and admire strange shapes and a sort of codes – like the numbers… Read More THE TORN (PUBLI)CITY: NUMBERS & CODES LEFT ON ADVERTISING BOARDS
In my close-up photographs of decompositions and disfigurement of the urban environment, we often recognize figurative elements. As in the case of this image, captured on an advertisement board. It is not a painting. It is not an acrylic. It is not an oil. And not even a collage. It is a simple photographic image.… Read More 1969-2019, CELEBRATING THE MOON (PHOTO OF TORN PUBLICITY POSTER ON A BILLBOARD)
Are these modern art paintings? Are these pop art works? Are these acrylic pictorial paintings? No, they are just photos of details of big torn publicity posters on an outdoor advertisings billboard. For me, the street is a real free art gallery, where we can perceive wonderful pieces of art. The pictures above are part… Read More THE STREET IS A FREE ART GALLERY: TORN PUBLICITY POSTERS, SLIDESHOW #3
Here are three images from my “Lacer/actions” project-research. They were taken exactly 10 years ago, but I think they retain all their amazing energy. Obviously, these images are not paintings, but photographs. They refer to billboards, which I saw by chance along the roads. Yes, these are not collages built and created deliberately with my hands,… Read More THREE IMAGES FOUND IN THE ARCHIVE: THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN TEN YEARS AGO
Many Thanks to all of you for stopping by my Blog! 300.000! It’s a wonderful achievement. So, this is a new video (from my YouTube channel) to celebrate it. It’s “The torn (publi)city”. It represents my project. It represents my research through the amazing dimension of decomposition of matters, urban and industrial signs, natural cracks… Read More 300.000 VIEWS! A NEW VIDEO THANKING YOU FOR THIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENT
After the advertisement has been torn and removed from the billboards, traces and marks of ink, glue and residuals of paper can be glimpsed on the surface. In my opinion, this is a sort of open-air exhibition. Our eye can read and admire strange shapes and a sort of codes that only the time and… Read More THE TORN (PUBLI)CITY: SIGNS & CODES LEFT ON A BILLBOARD #3
There are some amazing and unusual landscapes on the walls of our cities… They are skies and seas of paper. We can see them in macro photographs of disfigured advertising posters. In this photogallery I have gathered some of the macro images I took walking along the streets of different cities, from outdoor billboards. The… Read More SKIES AND SEAS OF PAPER / MACRO PHOTOS OF DISFIGURED ADVERTISING POSTERS # 2
There are some amazing and original landscapes on the walls of our cities… They are skies and seas of paper we can see in macro photographs of disfigured advertising posters. In this photogallery I have gathered some of the macro images I took walking along the streets of diffrent cities. They’re macro and abstract photos… Read More SKIES AND SEAS OF PAPER / MACRO PHOTOS OF DISFIGURED ADVERTISING POSTERS # 1
Remembering the World Environment Day (June 5, 2018). “Global warming, global warning”: this is a photo of my new collage made up of hundreds of small pieces of waste paper of disfigured and torn publicity posters. It measures 110 x 57 cms and is built on a wooden board. This is a special preview of the… Read More “GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL WARNING”: A NEW COLLAGE FOR WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY (June 5, 2018)
They’re not paintings… They’re Lacer/actions. Abstract and macro photos by Roberto Alborghetti about torn and ripped publicity posters, cracks and scratches, decomposed matters, urban and industrial signs and tokens. Watch the Video Catalogue of 41 Lithographic Prints. Interested in purchasing these images in exclusive and original copies? Ask for the availability to: sandinipaolo@gmail.com ro.alb@alice.it
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