avoiding the 'holiday' blur

pods

Syros, Greece

mystic waterbed

Boston, MA (1980)

ghost of Mamon past

Athens, Greece, 2006

Mall sculpture (4)

Melbourne, Australia

Mall sculpture (3)

Melbourne, Australia

mall sculpture (2)

Melbourne, Australia

mall sculpture (1)

Melbourne, Australia

sand dancer

refresh

NYC, 1984

vipers

NYC, 1984

in the material world

down and out in Sommerville

Mt. Sinai

sunrise, 1982

creation

dawn, Voula beach, 1990

the untamed beauty of Pakistan

http://www.walkaboutfilms.tv/

kaleidoscope

Sommerville, MA

January, 1991

Athens, Greece

ghosts in the machine

South Shore, MA

life doing its thing...

Sommerville, MA

weigh-in

Sommerville, Mass.

harassment

Minneapolis, Minn.

fishing

Shenandoah River, West Virginia

election day

dawn, Omonia Square, Athens, 1990s

spirits in the material world

somewhere, USA

fallukah assistant

Nile River, Egypt

mystery

Sommerville, Mass.

morning glory

Nile

behemoths

Chicago

commandment

sunrise, Mt. Sinai

lectric

Denver, Colorado

Barry, who would be 50 in the year 2007

Happy Birthday!

phase burn

Musical interlude

A fun beat from outer space (an experimental improv jam)

Ronald Jenkees

http://youtube.com/watch?v=giAzopSy-g0

another dream

pepper swirl

treasure

artist highlight: Bansky

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

burger joint

Chicago, Ill.

sailing ships

International Coffee House, Pennsylvania, 1986

horns

artist's residence, Victoria, Australia

Artist spotlight: Valentino Albini

Valentino Albini
Works (1987-2007)
By Gaspare Luigi Marcone

The art and the collages of Valentino Albini move between two opposite esthetic poles that the artist perfectly harmonizes in his personal figurative research, in one side there is the photographic realism otherwise iconic and in the other side the artistic transfiguration of both collage and manual work through which Albini works on fragments of contemporary reality. The artist works using images already published on fashion journal and news papers that he remixes according to his personal esthetic sensitivity. After this first step, Albini acts directly on this new imagine using chemical solvent, colors and acidic substances that can change and give a new meaning to the pictures according to his philosophy. In his work is evident the intention of modify and deteriorate the appearance of reality published in the news papers to produce an other reality almost utopist and symbolic(To the Front, 2006-2007; Strawberries and torment, 2006-2007). The reality of mass media are in between the true reality which is just appearance and the artistic reality elaborate and filtrated by Albini ( The Big brother, 2006-2007; Angels and devils don't fear revenge, 1987-2006)

This way of thinking the art is confirmed by the use of any kind of objects stocked on his art works following the aesthetic of the "avanguardistica" of the "object trouvee" In some of the works of mail art it is possible to find feather of gulls, leaves and other little objects which are typical of the places where the artist has produced and sent his post card. A thin criticism, mixed with dreams and illusions, is present in the raw contemporary reality that Albini feels and lives( The Nut's dream, 1988-2006).

His wide experience of more than ten years as photographer in the field of advertising and fashion permits to Albini the creation of works where colors and artistic composition are perfectly harmonized (The weight of this burden will save your sins, 2006); many of his collages treat social and political subjects (2 Agosto 1980, 2007). His mail art sent to other artists (Granada, 2007), critics and friends follows the ideas of his collages and at the same time trays to transmit and communicate in pure, direct and honest way his artistic style as Ray Johson has previously theorized. Many of Albinis works have been realized and elaborate during the course of the years; the artist has modified several time his works: it seems that he like to show the pragmatic course and metamorphic develop of his creativity and inspiration.

Translation edited by Silvia Ippolito

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a friend

National Garden, Athens (1978)

the wall

Bowling Green, Ohio

pleasure and pain

whoosh

Melbourne, Australia

pressure

Melbourne, Australia

guarantee

Hume, Vic, Oz

symbol

Singapore

red

Singapore

western

Salt Lake City, Utah

the magic hour

Evdilos, the old capital of the island of Ikaria

medieval settlement

Part of a mountain settlement where the community were able to hide from pirates. It lies several hundred meters above the present-day village of Chrysostomo, near which Icarus was reputed to have fallen at the end of his ill-fated flight. The view from the village is identical to that of the well-known painting of Icarus' fall by Pieter Brueghel.

Ikaria, Greece