This volume offers an in-depth examination of the work of Aldo Tagliaferro (Legnano, 1936 – Parma, 2009) through a systematic reconstruction of his career. It follows his artistic development from the 1960s, when he was creating pieces that he brought together under the title Daily Political Report, up to his last challenging work, Above/Below a Metre of Ground (2000).
With the help of materials held in the artist’s archives, the book re-establishes the substance and complexity of Tagliaferro’s production. What emerges is a coherent figure who based his enquiry on an ethical tension in addition to an aesthetic one, using photography as the most suitable instrument for implementing the process of ‘detection-revelation’, which, like a common thread, can be seen throughout his entire oeuvre. Cristina Casero’s introductory essay traces all the stages of Tagliaferro’s work, from the experiments that brought him into the Mec Art movement to his participation in the Venice Biennale, examining his late work as well, in which autobiographical references took on deeper meaning.

Contents

Aldo Tagliaferro
Cristina Casero

Notes on My Work

1964-1968
Daily Political Report

1968
Differentiated Images – through the use of laminated paper

1967-1970
Fusible Images – Investigating the possibility of having two images interact

1969
Analysis within the Image and on Its Combinatory Possibilities

1970
Verification of an Exhibition

1970
Analysis of an Operational Role

1972
Temporal Stay - Eternal Stay – as a moment of identification

1973
Memory - Identification as Superimposition on Reality. Analysis of objective variability through temporal subjectivity

1973
Evocative Memory (Childhood)

1973
Variable Memory

1973
Memory - Identification – in a temporal variability

1973
Identification – of one’s availability

1973
Identification – theatre transposition

1973
Objectified Identification

1973
Superimposition on Reality

1976
Analysis of Fetishism from a Found Image

1977
Highlighting through Everyday Life. Analysis of the duality of one’s own role

1977-1979
The Ego-Portrait

1983
From Sign to Writing. Analysis of African hairstyles

2000
Above / Below a Metre of Ground

APPENDIX

Biography

Solo Exhibitions

Main Group Exhibitions

Bibliography