Aldo Tambellini
Cathodic works 1966-1976
Before video art had a name, Aldo Tambellini was making it. Cathodic Works 1966-1976, presented here for the first time on double DVD by Von, is an essential document of one of the most underacknowledged pioneers in the history of experimental media - a body of work that predates the canonical account of video art and, in several respects, exceeds it.
Born in Syracuse, New York in 1930, raised in Lucca during the Second World War - a childhood spent in a city that was bombed, twenty-one of his n…