Aldo Tambellini: Black Matters [1]
»Black Matters [3]« is the first full solo exhibition of American artist, Aldo Tambellini, who is one of the pioneers of intermedia art of the 1960s and 1970s. Aldo Tambellini (born 1930 in Syracuse, NY, USA) lives and works in Cambridge. Together with Otto Piene, he founded the »Black Gate Theatre« in 1967, which was the first »Electro-Media« theatre of New York. Between 1976 and 1984, he was a fellow at the legendary Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the MIT in Cambridge.
The exhibition »Black Matters« takes a journey through Tambellini’s most prolific, highly charged and diversified period (1960–1980). The exhibition explores his, paintings, and multimedia practice that includes: Lumagram (hand-painted slides), video, videogram, painting, photography, installation, film works, presenting a selection of his most recent multimedia works that have been shown at Centre Pompidou
(2012), Tate Modern (2012), MoMA New York (2013), 56. Biennale di Venezia (2015).
The corpus of works, presented at ZKM for the first major solo exhibition of the artist, is conceived as a manifesto for an organic connection among painting, sculpture, photography, moving image installation, kinetic art and performance. His vision encompasses the full implications of contemporary media, seizing on their potential as linguistic, artistic, and social tools. The aim of this exhibition is also to document Tambellini’s early works from the 1950s along with works never seen from his New York period which through artistic expression demonstrates his political activism and philosophy, as well as films and videos which have marked the artist’s success in the 1960s and 70s. Among his unedited works there will be a section dedicated to his experimentation and projects done at MIT with Communicationsphere.
At the end of the journey through the development of Tambellini’s artistic life will be a site specific installation commissioned for the occasion of this retrospective at ZKM. The new multimedia installation, once again after sixty years, will present his artistic creativity and actual politics and philosophical underpinning that »Black Matters«.
Credits
Aldo Tambellini, Black Matters, 2017, Installation , HD, Sound, 9 min.
Concept by Aldo Tambellini with Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi.
Edited by Giuseppe Boccassini.
Curated by Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi.
Voice by Aldo Tambellini, recorded by Askia Tournè, Neiel Simposon, Michael Woods, Eric Zinman.
Produced by ZKM Karlsruhe, and Atelier Impopulaire, Milan.
Supported by Harvard Film Archive.
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- Exhibitions [4]
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ZKM Center for Art and Media [5]
Founded in 1989, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is a cultural institution which, since 1997, has been located in a historical industrial building in Karlsruhe [7], Germany [8] that formerly housed a munitions factory. The ZKM organizes special exhibitions and thematic events, carries out research projects, produces works in the field of new media [9] and offers public as well as individualized communications and educational programs.
The ZKM houses under one roof two museums [10], three research institutes as well as a media center; in this way it groups research and production, exhibitions and events, archives and collections. It works on the interface of art and science, and takes up cutting-edge insights in media technologies with the objective of developing them further. Since the death of founding director Heinrich Klotz (1935-1999), the ZKM has been directed by Prof. Peter Weibel [11].[1] [12] In addition to the ZKM, the associated Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design [13], as well as the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe [Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe] are likewise housed in the former munitions factory.