On the back cover and internet, it is stated that he was born in 1942 in Torino where he still lives. During the 80's he began working on Visual and Sound Poetry and, at the same time, started doing performances usually with Carla Bertola, working on the idea of "Stagepoetry actions". He performed widely in Italy and different countries. In Visual Poetry he usually works on collages following a personal technique obtaining color from the surface of paper, a procedure he called "pulling up"; recently he is using blowing up from fragments passing through photos and then laser copies. He has taken part in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Since 1978 he is co-editor of the International Poetry Magazine Offerta Speciale. Alberto says: "My works have their origin in a particular kind of collage technique, some fragments of the original works have been photographed and reworked with laser xerox and form the basis for other works. Letters are important for their graphical form but frequently contain a kind of meaning. All this is the work of a visual poet and of course the origin is language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.