36 Facts About Aldo Tambellini

Aldo Tambellini pioneered electronic intermedia, and was a painter, sculptor, and poet.

Aldo Tambellini was born in Syracuse, New York, the second child of an Italian-Brazilian father, John Tambellini, and an Italian mother.

Aldo Tambellini then returned to New York, and Aldo Tambellini saw him only when he visited Lucca.

Aldo Tambellini's paternal grandfather, Paul Tambellini, was a coffee plantation owner in Sao Paulo, Brazil who later retired to Lucca.

Aldo Tambellini's maternal grandfather was a socialist who worked in a foundry, building railroad cars.

Aldo Tambellini grew up primarily with his family on his mother's side, who came from Massa province in Tuscany.

Aldo Tambellini showed early promise in fine arts as a child, drawing and painting with great skill at the age of 3.

At the age of 5 Aldo Tambellini's mother gave him his first battery-operated Lanterna Magica projector.

Aldo Tambellini loved both music and art, singing as a child and listening to the radio frequently.

Aldo Tambellini chose the local arts school, A Passaglia Art Institute.

Aldo Tambellini survived the attack unscathed, later recalling that bombs dropped five feet from him as he lay in the street.

Aldo Tambellini's family survived, with two bombs in the backyard failing to detonate.

At the age of 16, Aldo Tambellini moved to New York City with his mother, speaking very little English.

Aldo Tambellini first learned of his parents' official separation on arriving in New York.

Aldo Tambellini then took care of his mother who had developed extreme paranoia and other neuroses due to the war.

Aldo Tambellini took a series of odd jobs, picking potatoes with migrant workers and painting gasoline tanks in Oil City in Syracuse, New York.

Shortly after, at the age of 17, Aldo Tambellini prepared his portfolio and met with Lee Brown Coye at the Syracuse Museum.

At 18, Aldo Tambellini joined VEDET, which consisted of artists Hilton Kramer and James Kleege.

Aldo Tambellini received his MFA from Notre Dame in 1959.

In 1962, Aldo Tambellini was a founding member of a counter-culture group called Group Center, which worked to find creative ways to display non-mainstream work.

In Group Center, Aldo Tambellini first began to work with "black" as a theme, which came to define his artistic expression.

In 1966, Aldo Tambellini founded The Gate Theater in New York's East Village, which showed experimental films once a week.

In June 2010, Aldo Tambellini exhibited in a group show, Celluloid Cameraless Film at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt Germany.

In October 2012, Aldo Tambellini exhibited in the Tate Tanks at London's Tate Modern.

In September 2013 Aldo Tambellini had his first gallery retrospective at the James Cohan Gallery, New York.

In 2015, Aldo Tambellini was invited to exhibit in the Italian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Furthermore, the Foundation seeks to ensure that Aldo Tambellini's works are accessible to all via permanent placements and loans in galleries and museums throughout the world.

Aldo Tambellini, which had its official premiere at the 2018 International Film Festival of Rotterdam.

Aldo Tambellini has over 1400 pieces of artwork and 1000 poems.

Aldo Tambellini worked with coal, acrylic and oil paints for his paintings.

Aldo Tambellini's films were often Black and White, surreal, and had a social context.

Aldo Tambellini became Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976.

From 1976 to 1984, Aldo Tambellini conducted courses and workshops in communication and media, as well as participating in live experimental events in slow-scan in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

In 1980, Aldo Tambellini founded Communicationsphere, a network of artists, performers, technicians, and engineers who were interested in the impact of telecommunications on the changing modern society.

Aldo Tambellini lived in New York's Lower East Side and later Brooklyn until he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1986 to take up a fellowship at The Center for Advanced Visual Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Aldo Tambellini met Anna Salamone who became his collaborator and partner until his death.