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Roberto Alborghetti

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LIVES IN:

Milan area

WORKS IN:

Milan area

WEBSITE:

http://www.myspace.com/lacer-azioni

TAGS:

research, graffiti/street-art, abstract, digital, photography, modern, performance, mixed-media

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THEY ARE “LACER/ACTIONS”

Oil-paintings? Collages? Decoupages? Chalks pastels? Acrilics? No, nothing of all that. They are “laceR/Actions”, a new frontier of the creative expression, a sort of impressive “mechup” of different languages.

It has been a long time that Roberto Alborghetti works on his project. His incredible research is concerning ripped advertisings. He has gathered thousands of pictures from city walls all over the world. Abstract and visionary images become art works, reproduced on canvas or on other materials (textiles, paper, glass…) An astonishing “dimension of colours” invite us to discover that in the reality “we may see thing that we wouldn’t imagine”.

In fact – as Roberto Alborghetti says - we find it difficult to think that behind faded and torn messages there may still be “something” to be seen or discovered. But these images - “lacer/Actions” - continue to be a mirror of the talking city. They are the post-communicating findings of a product, an event, a performing idea. For Roberto Alborghetti, in the lacerated advertisings is recognizable the “unwrapped” city, self-destroying in the messages, self-regenerating and self-reproducing in new visual elements, often contradictory, dissonant, discordant, but still surprisingly vital.

Some of Roberto Alborghetti ‘s “lacer/Actions” are shown also in a booklet-portfolio that collects a very little selection of the images that Roberto Alborghetti took during his singular research about torn (publi)city.

ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI / BIO

Journalist and writer, he has written more then thirty books (biographies, interviews, stories),he has worked in magazines and newspapers, he has produced Tv documentaries, he is editor in chief of magazines concerning didactic, education and edutainment. He leads workshops about media literacy and image education.

He has won lot of journalism Prizes, such as Premio Acqui Terme, Premio Beppe Viola, Premio Anmil Safety in Work. He is the only one Italian journalist who received the European Award for Environmental Reporting given to him in 1992 in the European Parliament.

He has created “laceR/Actions”, a multidisciplinary project that involves Image reading and urban analysis in a new view of “low brow art”. “laceR/Actions” is also a “book-portfolio” that gathers a selections of 40 pictures chosen among the 15.000 ones that Roberto Alborghetti has taken during his research about torn (public)city.

More at: www.myspace.com/lacer-azioni

“LACER/ACTIONS” ACTIVITIES

1 - THE EXHIBITION

Pictures of various sizes, about different themes, for open air spaces, halls, rooms and galleries.

2 - THE INSTALLATION

Films about “lacer/Actions” (with soundtrack) shown in different themes and arguments.

3 - THE CANVAS

Possibility to choose and book “laceR/Actions” pictures in unique and exclusive copies.

Infos&Contacts:

Roberto Alborghetti

ro.alb@alice.it

bob.alborg@gmail.com