Tag: urban art

THE YELLOW YEAR / SCRATCHES ON “CENTRAL WASTE” IN BEESTON, NOTTINGHAM, UK

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

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THE YELLOW YEAR / THEY AREN’T MAPS, BUT MACRO PHOTOS OF CORROSIONS ON SPEED BUMPS

Pantone has chosen the yellow color – also in combination with gray – as the color of the year 2021. During my chromatic research of the “Lacer / actions” project I encountered several situations in which yellow was predominant in the color palette. Both as regards the decomposed advertising posters and for the cracks, corrosion… Read More THE YELLOW YEAR / THEY AREN’T MAPS, BUT MACRO PHOTOS OF CORROSIONS ON SPEED BUMPS

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CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #4

Someone wrote that my “Lacer/actions” artworks – macro photos of torn posters and urban materials – are a sort of evolutional forms by which some unidentified and indefinite entities try to communicate with us… At first I smiled hearing  this comment. Now – after having “captured” strange and unusual images in thousands – I’m not… Read More CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #4

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CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #3

Someone wrote that my “Lacer/actions” artworks – macro photos of torn posters and urban materials – are a sort of evolutional forms by which some unidentified and indefinite entities try to communicate with us… At first I smiled hearing this comment. Now – after having “captured” strange and unusual images in thousands – I’m not… Read More CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #3

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CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #2

Someone wrote that my “Lacer/actions” artworks – macro photos of torn posters and urban materials – are a sort of evolutional forms by which some unidentified and indefinite entities try to communicate with us… At first I smiled hearing this comment. Now – after having “captured” strange and unusual images in thousands – I’m not… Read More CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #2

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CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #1

Someone wrote that my “Lacer/actions” artworks – macro photos of torn posters and urban materials – are a sort of evolutional forms by which some unidentified and indefinite entities try to communicate with us… At first I smiled hearing this comment. Now – after having “captured” strange and unusual images in thousands – I’m not… Read More CITIES,WALLS AND SIGNS: STREET MACRO PHOTOS #1

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VIVALDI’S WINTER AND 31 STREET MACRO PHOTOGRAPHS

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

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MACRO PHOTOGRAPH ON ALUMINUM PLATE: THE TREE OF LIFE

“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

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MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY ON SILK SCARVES (LIMITED EDITION SERIES)

Renato Aquino – from Portugal (Ourem) – is a successful Senior Operations Manager, Catering Manager and skilled hospitality professional. Through LinkedIn profiles he had the way to see my artistic silk scarves. He was really struck by the unusual design and he acquired the all series of three doing some special gifts.  Renato sent me… Read More MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY ON SILK SCARVES (LIMITED EDITION SERIES)

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SKIES OF PAPER IN MILAN / MACRO PHOTOS OF DECOMPOSED PUBLICITY POSTERS

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

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MACRO PHOTO #30 / HERE IS THE LAST CARD: CRACKS (AS MAPS) ON THE GHOST BUS

“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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MACRO PHOTO #29 / THE GAME OF 30 CARDS: ANOTHER SKY FROM THE GHOST BUS

“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 #29 / THE GAME OF 30 CARDS: ANOTHER SKY FROM THE GHOST BUS

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