ALDO TAMBELLINI | MEMO

Born 1930 in Syracuse, U.S.A. Mother from Italy. Father from Brazil taken to Italy as a child where he grew up during the World War II. Survived bombing of his neighborhood. Returned to U.S. after the war. He created together with artists and filmmakers an underground-counter-culture in New York in 1959. Video and multimedia pioneer. 1969 he got the International Price of the "Filmfestspiele in Oberhausen", Germany. Created the Black Gate Theatre in New York, the first multimedia theatre. Many poem-publications. Co-operates with black poets and musicians. Lives in Cambridge, MA (USA).

2008  BUSHWICK FILM FESTIVAL — Brooklyn, NY
RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING — Anthology Film Archives, New York
2007  THE WRITER'S BRUSH — Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SYRACUSE — Thinc's Company Gallery, Syracuse, NY
FILM RETROSPECTIVE — Syracuse International Film Festival
2006  STONE SOUP POETRY — Out of the Blue Art Gallery, Cambridge, MA
WITH ART IN HIS HEART — Review by Letizia Airos
GUERRILLA ART — Altered Esthetics, Mineapolis, MN
2005  LISTEN, 30th New England Film Festival — Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS — Russian Samovar, New York
CAPTURED — Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Museum, New York
WILD BOYS, BAD BOYS, OUTSIDERS, and ORIGINALS — Clayton Gallery, New York
WAR, 12 poems — voicesinwartime.org
2004  MINI-RETROSPECTIVE — Howl Festival, New York
2003  NO!-ON show — Gallery Berliner Kunstprojekt, Berlin
NO!art in BUCHENWALD — Boris Lurie: Geschriebigtes/Gedichtigtes, catalogbook
1994   NO!art with Boris Lurie and Isser Aronovici — Clayton Gallery, New York