Exhibition »Aldo Tambellini. Black Matters«

With »Black Matters«, the ZKM | Karlsruhe is presenting a full solo exhibition of American artist Aldo Tambellini for the first time. Tambellini is one of the pioneers of intermedia art and the experimental avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s. After some of Tambellini’s works were seen lastly in exhibitions and screenings at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2012), the Tate Modern in London (2012), the MoMA in New York (2013) and the 56^th Biennale di Venezia (2015), the exhibition project, initiated by Peter Weibel and curated by Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi in cooperation with the ZKM, is now providing a complete overview of the multimedia practice of the artist for the first time.

»Black Matters« takes a journey through the most productive and most energetically charged periods of Aldo Tambellini’s work and shows films, videos, installations, lumagrams (hand-painted slides) and videograms made between 1960 and 1980 together with his early paintings. In a multimedia installation created for the exhibition, Tambellini’s central artistic, political and philosophical undertakings can be seen: »Black Matters«.

ZKM | Laboratory for Antiquated Video Systems has restored and digitalised a total of about 120 – some not yet published – videos for the retrospective, which are now part of the Aldo Tambellini Video Archive at the ZKM | Karlsruhe. The artist himself has collaborated intensively on the conceptual design of the exhibition.