Aldo Tambellini
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| Einzelausstellung | 2017 | BLACK MATTERS | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien | Karlsruhe | |
| Einzelausstellung | 2012 | The Tate Tanks | Tate Modern | London | A recreation of "Black Zero" and "Moondial" |
| Einzelausstellung | 1971 | Cineprobe | Museum of Modem Art, NYC | New York | |
| Einzelausstellung | 1971 | A Special Video Show | Whitney Museum | New York |
Arbeitsorte / Ateliers
Cambridge, Vereinigte Staaten
Ausstellungen
New York, Vereinigte Staaten
November 2011 saw a Tambellini retrospective presented at the Chelsea Museum, New York – Black Zero (1966–1999). The retrospective included an evening performance of Black Zero and a continuous projection of Tambellini's early works.
Projekte
New York, Vereinigte Staaten
In 1966, Tambellini founded The Gate Theater in New York's East Village, which showed experimental films once a week. Nam June Paik and Hollywood director Brian de Palma's first films were shown in Tambellini's theater, the only avant-garde experimental theater to show independent films of the time. In 1967, he co-founded a second theater, the Black Gate with Otto Piene, which primarily showed electromedia performances and installations.
Projekte
New York, Vereinigte Staaten
In 1965 Tambellini began to paint directly on film, a technique he pioneered, thus beginning his "Black Film Series." Shortly after, with a second-hand Bolex camera, Tambellini shot several experimental films.
Projekte
New York, Vereinigte Staaten
In 1962, Tambellini was a founding member of a counter-culture group called Group Center, which worked to find creative ways to display non-mainstream work. Group Center combined poetry, photography, choreography and film-making.
Wohnorte
New York, Vereinigte Staaten
At 18 Tambellini joined VEDET, which consisted of artists Hilton Kramer and James Kleege. There, Tambellini applied for a four-year scholarship to the University of Syracruse.
Wohnorte
Lucca, Italien
Tambellini grew up in Italy speaking Italian.
Geboren
Syracuse, New York, Vereinigte Staaten
Ausbildung
Lucca, Italien
Tambellini studied art history and fine arts at the Liceo Artistico Musicale e Coreutico Augusto Passaglia di Lucca.
Today, the 87-year-old artist Aldo Tambellini is known primarily to researchers of alternative and anarchist movements for his associations with 1960s counterculture. After arriving in New York’s Lower East Side in 1959, he co-founded Group Center: an alliance of writers, artists and activists, including Ron Hahne and Ben Morea, who later launched the Situationist-inspired anarchist groups Black Mask and Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker. From 1966, Tambellini also ran the cross-genre, cross-media project spaces Gate Theatre and (with ZERO co-founder Otto Piene) the Black Gate in Manhattan’s East Village. The Gate Theatre hosted the Theatre of the Ridiculous and its late-night productions: debuts by up-and-coming directors (such as Brian De Palma and Robert Downey), underground films (by Jack Smith and the Kuchar brothers) and multimedia performances (by Yayoi Kusama and Nam June Paik). Tambellini was shown at the Italian pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and his 1965 multimedia performance Black Zerowas revived at the 2009 edition of Performa, New York – yet it is surprising how little awareness exists of him as an artist today. ...
Tambellini’s aim in basing his pictorial experiments on the non-colour black was a conceptually motivated reduction. With a preference for spiral or circular motifs, it runs the risk of symbolic overloading, yet brings a chaos and creativity he would later extend beyond painting to intermedia formats. In the mid-1970s, through his contact with Piene, Tambellini came into contact with MIT, where from 1976 to 1984 he worked at the Centre for Advanced Visual Studies, expanding into new media, video technology and seeing his central artistic challenge in television as a communications medium. Hans-Jürgen Hafner
https://frieze.com/article/aldo-tambellini (16. 10. 2018)
| Besondere Merkmale | Light and Space Movement |
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Black TV | 1968 | Aldo Tambellini | |
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Retracing Black | 2012 | Aldo Tambellini | |