Title: Aldo Tambellini Collection
Authors: Tambellini, Aldo, 1930-; Tambellini, Aldo, 1930-
Year: 1960
Subjects: Tambellini, Aldo,; Piene, Otto,; Paik, Nam June,; Campus, Peter,; Allen, James E.,; Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)--1960-1970.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Visual Studies.; Howard Wise Gallery.; Experiments in Art and Technology (Organization); Grove Press. Film Division.; Tambellini’s Gate Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.); Bank records on microfilm.; Art Study and teaching New York (State) New York.; Political violence; Video installations (Art); Second Avenue (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.); Palm Springs (Calif.); Los Angeles (Calif.); Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.); Forty-second Street (New York, N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); East Village (New York, N.Y.) History; Albany (N.Y.)
Abstract: This collection contains films made by artist Aldo Tambellini. A central figure in the East Village art scene that thrived during the 1960s, poet, painter, sculptor and pioneering multi-media artist Aldo Tambellini (b. 1930) has worked in a staggering range of media - from his early Arte Povera-style sculptures and abstract drawings done in Italy and America in the 1950s and 1960s, to his experimental work in early video and television art, which he pioneered alongside his close friend and occasional collaborator Nam Jun Paik, to the series of abstract films he made in the 1960s. The collection consists of 16mm projection prints, workprints, outtakes, and preservation masters of his film work from the 1960s, as well as unreleased works in both film and video.