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...Black Trip 2,” “Blackout,” “Black TV,” and “Moonblack.” But what makes the color, and the concept, of blackness so important to Tambellini? In his own words, “The theme of black—it’s racial, it’s artistic, it’s cosmic...
...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 is also marked by a fixation with curved surfaces, because “everything in space is circular...
...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...
...Tambellini, born in Syracuse, New York to an Italian mother and a Brazilian father, has always identified with black culture. The artist will turn 80 on April 29—“It’s the same date as the birthday of Duke Ellington. I’m a big fan of jazz,” Tambellini says. He grew up 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...
...life Tambellini has associated himself with African Americans, especially intellectuals, who he connects with because of their plight. “A lot of injustice has been done to black people. A lot of injustice is also done to artists,” he says. When his black series was made in New York in the 1960s, the films communicated a profound social and political message. His archivist and manager Anna Salamone says, “Aldo is a man who lives and creates by what he believes. There is just no grey about it; you either believe...