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5 Installations in a Clearing: Land Art from Alberonero in Central Italy

5 Installations in a Clearing: Land Art from Alberonero in Central Italy

Land art can be so satisfying sometimes because you merely need nature to be your willing collaborator and your idea can take flight. It’s the sensation of serendipity when you first made a cape for yourself merely by wrapping your blanket over your shoulders. One minute ago it was a blanket. Suddenly, you may fly. That’s how I discovered that I was actually Batman.

Alberonero. “Monte Immagine”. In collaboration with Umbrian Center of Artistic Residences and STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO. Vallo di Nera, Italy. (photo © Roberto Conte)

The Italian land artist Alberonero says that he discovered this project October 2nd only by totally immersing himself in his environment here in Central Italy’s Vallo di Nera area. He says he is interpreting the natural elements also as moments – necessarily so because the world is in constant motion, despite the static state in which we may imagine it to be.

Alberonero. “Monte Immagine”. In collaboration with Umbrian Center of Artistic Residences and STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO. Vallo di Nera, Italy. (photo © Roberto Conte)

The temporary environmental installation that he conceives of here is called Monte Immagine, and he says that it “consists of five installations within a single clearing made up of natural materials found in the local woods – such as tree trunks and branches – resins and colored fabrics that interpenetrate with the physical and atmospheric elements of the surrounding landscape. All the works use trees as pillars: raw materials that, in each installation, experience the site through different suggestions.”

Alberonero. “Monte Immagine”. In collaboration with Umbrian Center of Artistic Residences and STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO. Vallo di Nera, Italy. (photo © Roberto Conte)

With this spirit of interaction, with this willingness of your observatory powers, everything becomes an actor, and something that can be acted upon. With the participation of clouds, of breezes, one is more aware of fragility.

He speaks of the natural actors as “apparitions that temporarily inhabit the area before their dialogue with nature gets absorbed by the atmospheric agents.”

Alberonero. “Monte Immagine”. In collaboration with Umbrian Center of Artistic Residences and STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO. Vallo di Nera, Italy. (photo © Roberto Conte)
Alberonero. “Monte Immagine”. In collaboration with Umbrian Center of Artistic Residences and STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO. Vallo di Nera, Italy. (photo © Roberto Conte)
Alberonero. “Monte Immagine”. In collaboration with Umbrian Center of Artistic Residences and STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO. Vallo di Nera, Italy. (photo © Roberto Conte)
Alberonero. “Monte Immagine”. In collaboration with Umbrian Center of Artistic Residences and STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO. Vallo di Nera, Italy. (photo © Roberto Conte)
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Gonzalo Borondo and 36 Christ-like Apparitions Displayed in Salamanca, Spain

Gonzalo Borondo and 36 Christ-like Apparitions Displayed in Salamanca, Spain

Gorgeous and haunting images today from photographer Roberto Conte of street artist/fine artist Gonzalo Borondo’s latest installation fo “Non Plus Ultra”, this time in the Salina Palace in Salamanca, Spain.

Gonzalo Borondo. “NON PLUS ULTRA”. (photo © Roberto Conte)

Testing the qualities of glass once again, the artist screen prints 56 pieces and installs them across 80 meters of space, evoking a chorus of forms, but who are these/is this forms/form.

Christ suspended from the cross comes to mind, so does the drama of an army of models marching down the stage.

Gonzalo Borondo. “NON PLUS ULTRA”. (photo © Roberto Conte)

“Transparency and hardness; fragility and resistance; protection and danger,” he reflects as Borondon considers what draws him again and again to glass as a canvas for screen print. All of these are applicable and yet his placement in this repetitive way strikes you as the ephemera of projection of image.

Gonzalo Borondo. “NON PLUS ULTRA”. (photo © Roberto Conte)
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