© 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 #4
© 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
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”
Video created by Roberto Alborghetti for “Lacer/actions”, project-research about torn and decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks and scratches, industrial and urban matters. The Black ‘n’ White photos were taken in Bari (Italy). They show what remains after an advertising poster has been torn because it has expired. Soundtrack: “The Voyage” by Audiomachine. For Info: funtasyeditrice@gmail.com
The wear and tear of time, in its unstoppable pace, causes corrosion and cracking. This is what happened to the waste baskets placed in the center of a surprising medieval village, Abbadia San Salvatore, located on Mount Amiata, in the heart of Tuscany. The yellow paint, over the years, has peeled off and corroded, leaving… Read More IMAGINARY ARABESQUES: CORROSIONS AND CRACKS ON A WASTE BASKET (video)
Kindness is like a silk caress on the mind … This phrase was suggested to me by the images of the silk scarves produced with the image design of my “Lacer / Actions” project. Today is the World Kindness Day: it is celebrated annually on 13th November. On this day, participants attempt to make the… Read More 13th NOVEMBER: WORLD KINDNESS DAY/ LIKE A SILK CARESS ON THE MIND…
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
Ten years ago – it was 2009 – I published a portfolio dedicated to my “Lacer / Actions” project and reseacrh. I wanted to tell people about my hobby of photographing the decomposition of torn advertising posters. And I wanted to publish some of the tens of thousands of macro images I had already taken… Read More JUST FOR 2 DAYS: FREE DOWNLOAD OF “LACER/ACTIONS” PORTFOLIO (PUBLISHED IN 2009)
“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)
Cracks & Corrosions like unknown lands… These are abstract photos I recently took in Milan : they refer to pedestrian crossings in an underground car park. They are part of “LaceR/Actions”, a multidisciplinary project and research about the apparent chaos of ripped and decomposed publicity posters, natural cracks, crevices, scratches and urban and industrial signs… Read More LIKE UNKNOWN LANDS…CRACKS AND CORROSIONS ON PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
In Beeston, on the road to Nottingham (UK) you may have the surprise of running into a kind of art installation … Scratches, drawings, traces and lines come to life on the surface of a large yellow waste container (Central Waste). Yes, pure street art, or better: natural art on the street…#realstreetart #naturalstreetart. In the… Read More THE VIDEO: THE MAGIC OF SCRATCHES ON “CENTRAL WASTE” IN BEESTON-NOTTINGHAM, UK
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