Aldo Tambellini
circles

December 2007

                                    the circle
                                    the sphere
                                    the spiral
                                    the void
                                    suspension
                                    space
                                    tension
                                    the black
                                    mysterious matter
                                    the sphere of oneness
                                    connecting us all
                                   

                                    an astrophysicist says:
                                    'collapsing dark matter
                                    could warp space-time
                                    to form a huge black hole.'

 

Concept_sphere

 

February 25, 2008
12:50 a.m.

             look up
                there are no straight lines
                        in the sky
    no cubes floating anywhere

            take a walk
            in the sky
            among spiraling galaxies
            surrounded by spinning spheres
            shaped by timeless
            encrypted mathematical equations

            among the unresolved mystery of creation
            among planets
            in the process of becoming alive
            among rings of ice & fire
            among exploding energy with flames
            among extinct craters & active volcanoes
            among vanished world regenerating life

            all revolving suspended
            in the infinite expanding space
            the black on black
            hiding stars
            a black
            more profoundly black
            than cosmic black enamel & tar
            covering infinity
            with the silent echo
                                      of solitude

 

Concept_sphere

 

August 2008

                         the world is a sphere
                                   spinning in space
                                             we run around it
                                                           suspended
                                                                                                           
                                    with wings
                                                we fly to the moon
                                                            to Mars & beyond
                                                                        on an interstellar journey
                                                                                    through the cosmos
                                                                                                toward infinity
                                                                                                           
                                                            entering
                                                                        the parallel universe
                                                                                    then
                                                                                          we reinvent the wheel
                                                                                                            &
                                                                                                            the flying machine
           

Aldo Tambellini. Experimental film-maker, video and multimedia pioneer, writer and poet. Born in Syracuse, New York in 1930, his father from Sao Paolo, Brazil, his mother from Italy. He was taken to Italy at the age of eighteen months where he lived in Lucca (Tuscany). At the age of ten, he was enrolled in art school in Lucca. His neighborhood was bombed during WWII; twenty-one of his friends and neighbors died and he miraculously survived. In 1946, Aldo returned to the United States. With a full scholarship at Syracuse University he received a BFA in Painting, ‘54 and a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame, MFA ’59. In 1959, Aldo moved to New York City’s Lower East Side. He founded the underground, «counter-culture» group, «Group Center», which organized alternative ways and non-traditional presentation of the artists’ work to the public. He pioneered in the video art movement in the late 60’s. In 1965, he began painting directly on film beginning his «Black Film Series» of which, «Black TV», (made using both film and video) was the winner of the International Grand Prix, Oberhausen Film Festival, 1969. Simultaneously, Aldo began a series of «Electromedia Performances» which organically brought together, projected paintings, film, video, poetry, light, dance, sound and live musicians. He founded the Gate Theatre, the only daily public theatre showing avant-garde independent filmmakers and in 1967, he co-founded with Otto Piene, the Black Gate, a second theatre which presented live multi-media (Electromedia) performances and installations. From 1976 to 1984, Aldo was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he conducted workshops and organized with «communicationsphere» a series of international interactive Media Communication Projects. Since ’84, he has concentrated on poetry and performing his poetry with music and video projection. In 2005 Aldo produced a digital film, «Listen» which incorporates his anti-war and political poetry, animation/video and film clips. This film won First Place in the «Short Experimental Film by an Independent Filmmaker» category at the New England Film Festival in October 2005 and at the Syracuse International Film Festival in 2006. In 2007 Aldo was awarded the «Lifetime Achievement Award» from Syracuse University at the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival. The same year he received the Keys to the City of Cambridge from Mayor Ken Reeves in recognition of his contribution to the cultural environment of Cambridge. In 2010 Aldo was awarded a Gold medal from the Italian Government, Lucchesi Nel Mondo Organization, in recognition of his lifetime achievement in the Arts.