
Aldo Tagliaferro
- Edited by Cristina Casero
- Binding Hardcover
- Size 24 x 28 cm
- Pages 296
- Illustrations 350
- Language Italian, English
- Year 2021
- ISBN 9788836646098
- Price € 39,00 € 37,05
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
Anthological/Analogue
Films and Photographic Works (1969-2019)
Germano Celant
1968-1978
Germano Celant