Aldo Tambellini | artist memo

Born 1930 in Syracuse, U.S.A. Mother from Italy. Father from Brazil taken to Italy as a child where he grew up during the World War II. Survived bombing of his neighborhood. Returned to U.S. after the war. He created together with artists and filmmakers an underground-counter-culture in New York in 1959. Video and multimedia pioneer. 1969 he got the International Price of the "Filmfestspiele in Oberhausen", Germany. Created the Black Gate Theatre in New York, the first multimedia theatre. Many poem-publications. Co-operates with black poets and musicians. Lives in Cambridge, MA (USA). | ALDO'S HOMEPAGE
2012RETRACING BLACK | Tate Modern, London
2011

BLACK ZERO | Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2010BLACK IS | Pierre Meinard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
DIETMAR KIRVES INTERVIEWS ALDO | Video, Cambridge, MA
BLACK FILM SERIES | Nightingale Theatre, Chicago, IL
ALDO TAMBELLINI'S BLACK FILM SERIES | Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
TAMBELLINI DISCUSSES BLACKNESS | The Crimson , Cambridge, MA
ALDO TAMBELLINI: BIRTH OF GENIUS | by Lisa Paul Streitfeld, New York
2009THE LIBERATION POETS COLLECTIVE | Pierre Meinard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
BLACK GATE COLOGNE | Pierre Meinard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
BLACK ZERO | White Box, New York
VENOM, ETERNITY AND OTHER DISCREPANCIES | Experimental Filmclub, Dublin
MEMORIES OF A SYRACUSE NEIGHBORHOOD | Syracuse University, NY
2008INTERSTITIAL ZONES | Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels
ALDO TAMBELLINI'S PERIOD PHOTOGRAPHS OF BROOKLYN | brooklynhistory
MAITRES DES TEXTURES | La Cinémathèque française, Paris
BUSHWICK FILM FESTIVAL | Brooklyn, NY
RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING | Anthology Film Archives, New York