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“COLORS OF AN APOCALYPSE:

THE DECOMPOSED

PUBLICITY POSTERS”

SHOW

WORKSHOPS, FORUM

AND VIDEOSHOWS

ALDOBRANDESCA FORTRESS

PIANCASTAGNAIO, TUSCANY, ITALY

OCTOBER 6 - NOVEMBER 4, 2012

The next Roberto Alborghetti Lacer/actions Show (“Colors of an Apocalypse – An Intrigue for the Eyes and Mind from Decomposed Publicity Posters“) will take place in a wonderful and impressive location: the Rocca Aldobrandesca - a XIII Century fortress in Tuscany (Siena, Italy) - from October 6 to November 4, 2012. The exhibition is one of the most awaited Italian events of Fall 2012 and has been organized and sponsored by Piancastagnaio Municipality, Siena Territory Communities and Osa Onlus.

There is a great expectation for this event: simply browse the Roberto Alborghetti Blogsite (he got over 50.000 visitors). The title couldn't be more hit for this exceptional exhibition. Roberto Alborghetti will show forty artworks which symbolically represent the meaning of his artistic research, based on observation and reproduction of one of the several "apocalypses" of our times, namely the decomposed and torn publicity posters on walls and along the streets.

Roberto Alborghetti looks inside this great Babel of decomposed colors and words degraded by time, environment and humans. He draws chromatic energy from trash images, giving new life and reason to what is considered (for the eyes and the urban landscape) a rejection or a disturbing element. The historic Piancastagnaio fortress, evoking the passage of times, offers an ideal space to enhance the contrasting language of colors and shapes of Roberto Alborghetti compositions. The "Lacer /actions" Show will be accompanied by forums, workshops and videoshows created by Alborghetti. The exhibition – displaced in six rooms in an ascensional way - will also feature a limited-edition of a three silk scarves series which Roberto Alborghetti produced in collaboration with renowned textile designer Bruno Boggia who worked with the most famous international fashion designers.

Opening event on October 6, at 11 a.m. (Piancastagnaio Conferences Hall); Opening Time: 10-12,30/17-19,30 (Saturday, Sunday and all public holidays; from October 23 to October 27 during “Penne e Video Sconosciuti” national events). For informations and visits by appointment: 039 0577 784134 ; e-mail: info@prolocopiancastagnaio.it.

VIDEOCLIP : ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI SHOW 2012 :

“COLORS OF AN APOCALYPSE"

ABOUT “LACER/ACTIONS” ART PROJECT

Oil-paintings? Collages? Decoupages? Chalk pastels? Acrilics? No, nothing of all that. They are just “Lacer/actions”, another frontier of the creative expression, a sort of impressive “mechup” of different languages. A new modern art form. Roberto Alborghetti loves to work on ripped, torn and decomposed publicity posters and urban “signs”. He has been collecting so far more than 40.000 digital pictures from displays and city walls all around the world. Abstract and visionary images are reproduced on canvases or on other materials (textiles, lithographs, glass). Alborghetti’s art gathers and mixes up - in an intriguing way - different languages: from design and photography to art installations and videoshows (give a glance at his YouTube channel, where he uploaded 70 clips created with musicians and composers).

Roberto Alborghetti says: “We might find incredible to think that behind faded, torn and decomposed ads messages there may still be “something” to be seen or discovered. But these lacerated images continue to be a mirror of the talking city. They are the post-communicating expression of a product, an event, a performing idea. In the decomposed publicity posters 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.”

In 2009, Roberto Alborghetti published an “album-portfolio”: “Lacer/actions, Pics of Torn (publi)City. In July 2010, thirty thousand people visited his show “The Four Elements of LaceR/Actions” at Oriocenter (Milano Bergamo Orio International Airport). Roberto Alborghetti artpieces are also taking part of experiences about sensorial and emotional perception (sinestesys) concerning kinesiologic tests. He is also invited to lead workshops about his artworks.

In October 2011, he participated at Parallax Art Fair in London (La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall). He showed 3 artworks (mixed media/canvas): "Nine Eleven/New York 2001, Victims & Martyrs, The Blood Track #2", "As fast running water...", "I don't like to stand still". The famous “The Huffington Post” (September 2011) wrote about his artwork devoted to Nine Eleven Fallen; article by dr. Srini Pillay, Psychiatrist, Harvard clinician, brain imaging researcher, executive coach, author (Life Unlocked, The Science behind the Law of Attraction, Your Brain and Business: the Neuroscience of the Great Leaders).

One of Roberto Alborghetti works was selected to be part of the new Contemporary Art Museum projected and created in Italy (Marche region) by the artist Pasquale Martini. Art critics and experts said that Roberto Alborghetti's art has an "exceptional and evocative dynamic", "a strong power of language"; it shows "new points of observation that overwhelm canonical trial systems", "breaking the current patterns of visual art." Alborghetti's artworks "are explosions of color, passion, joy, sorrow, story, emotion, beauty, love...", "They touch us on the raw and go straight to the heart", " an intrigue for the eyes and mind".

ABOUT ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI

Italian professional reporter, author and visual artist, Roberto Alborghetti has written more than forty books (biographies, interviews, stories). He worked in magazines and newspapers and produced Tv documentaries. Editor in chief of magazines concerning didactic, education, edutainment and media literacy and education, he leads workshops and conferences.

He has won important 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, the so called European “Pulitzer”, about Environmental Reporting (1992, European Parliament, Strasbourg). He created “Lacer/actions”, a multidisciplinary project concerning researches and activities about the decomposed and torn posters and “street signs”.

LACER/ACTIONS ON WEB:



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THE LOCATION: THE ALDOBRANDESCA FORTRESS

ON MOUNT AMIATA, TUSCANY

But let's know something more about this fascinating fortress, one of the most impressive Medieval Italian castle, a perfect location for Roberto Alborghetti 's show. Since the 11th century the area of southern Tuscany around the castle of Piancastagnaio was the object of the expansionist politics of the powerful feudal family of the Aldobrandeschi. The whole territory is rich in historical remains tied to these potentates. Between the possessions of the Aldobrandeschi, Piancastagnaio was almost always the site of allotted to the noble family from the monks of the Abbey of S.Salvatore since the beginning of the year 1000. Subsequently it was claimed from the Viscounts of Campiglia and during the 13th century it became object of ulterior disputes between the cities of Siena and Orvieto.

The Orvietani gained control of the powerful fortress in the 1303 and maintained it for around fifty years. At this point they entered in the quarrel with the heirs of the Aldobrandeschi, the Orsini of Pitigliano, to oppose the new aims of the Senese Republic. Only between the years 1415 and 1430 Siena finally succeeded to taking possession of Piancastagnaio, that was attached to the Capitanato of Radicofani. In 17th century the settlement became a Granducal fief and finally, with the Leopoldine reforms, the chief town of the the same community.

The country town has a circular form, once had surrounding wall enclosure with alternating square towers and four gates. The walls and the gates have been almost entirely demolished, with the exception of few lines, three towers, two with semicircular shape and the other squared, the main city Gate beside the Rocca and other three minor Gates in the southern front of the walls: Porta Romana, Porticciola e Porta di Voltaia.

In the highest point of the inhabited area rises still today the mighty Rocca Aldobrandesca. The construction has a square form and is endowed with tall and strongly inclined walls. From the enclosure rises two towers , the greatest, either as thickest, had functions of keep, the other, in the opposite angle, defended the underlying gate of access to the city.

The whole complex was endowed with machicoulis and battlement, still today almost intact. The Rocca is under good condition thanks to careful work of restoration.

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