Roberto Alborghetti

THEY ARE ...“LACER/ACTIONS”

Oil-paintings? Collages? Decoupages? Chalks pastels? Acrylics? No, nothing of all that. They are “laceR/Actions”, a sort of "psycho images" that seem to arrive from Nowhere... 

It has been a long time that Roberto Alborghetti works on his project. His incredible research is concerning ripped advertisings and torn posters. He has gathered thousands of pictures from city walls all around 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 things that we don't even 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. His show ("The 4 Elements of Lacer/actions") was visited in 2010 by 30.000 people. In October 2011, some "Lacer/actions" artworks will be on show in London (Parallax AF).

About his "Nine Eleven" artwork, see the article written by Dr.Srini Pillay (Psychitrist, Harvard clinician, brain-imaging researcher, speaker and author):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/srinivasan-pillay/911-art_b_953397.html

ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI / BIO                   

Journalist and writer, he has written more than 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 journalism Prizes, such as Premio Acqui Terme, Premio Beppe Viola, Premio Anmil Safety in Work. He is the unique Italian reporter 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 30.000 images that Roberto Alborghetti has taken during his research about torn (public)city.

More at:

http://robertoalborghetti.wordpress.com/

www.youtube.com/user/lacerazioni

http://lacer-azioni.blip.tv/

www.myspace.com/lacer-azioni

http://it-it.facebook.com/people/Roberto-Alborghetti-Lacer-azioni/100001575788132

https://twitter.com/RobAlborg

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

www.myspace.com/lacer-azioni

CLICK FOR THE CLIP "THE LACER/ACTIONS SHOWROOM":

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