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Using black is Tambellini??s way of evoking the infinite space that surrounds our planet. The Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, wrote, “Before me—blackness: an inky-black sky studded with stars that glowed but did not twinkle; they seemed immobilized. Space itself appears as a bottomless pit. Such intensity of black does not exist on earth.” When Tambellini read these words in 1965, he realized that he has already been striving for a similar effect with his art and films. His work...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tambellini Discusses Blackness at HFA | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Tambellini??s poems begins with the words, “Nothing in space is a square or a cube.” This focus on the spherical design of natural forms is evident in many of his creations, but it also functions as a small part of a larger theme. Through his art, Tambellini seeks to access that which is beyond the global, while maintaining a genuine concern for the social and political issues around...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tambellini Discusses Blackness at HFA | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...with his mom and his brother in a working class area of Lucca, a town in Tuscany. At age three he started painting (“I was born an artist,” he says) and at age ten he began studying at the Lucca Art Institute. Tambellini??s town was bombed when he was thirteen, on January 6, 1944, the day of the Italian children’s holiday Befana. “I was on the street on my bicycle when the bomb came. It was a miracle that I survived. Since then I have...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tambellini Discusses Blackness at HFA | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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