Aldo Tagliaferro Biography
Aldo Tagliaferro (1936 - 2009) Born in Legnano in 1936, a city in which he carried out an intense pictorial activity as a youth. In 1963 he moved to Sesto San Giovanni to the "Quartiere delle botteghe" as its creator, the building constructor and collector Felice Valadè, had called it, who had made around twenty studios available to artists in exchange for paintings, as well as Tagliaferro: among others Vermi, Castellani, Bonalumi, Bruno Di Bello and Fabro. After his pictorial experience in 1965 he continues his research using the photographic image because it is the means closest to reality, for documentation and critical analysis of the socio-political context and human behaviour. He exhibited his first photographic work at the San Fedele painting prize in Milan in 1965 and in 1968 he joined Mec-Art and from 1971 he continued his research independently. Between 1968 and 1969 he oriented his research towards the multiple possibilities of using the photographic image. In 1970 he was invited to the Venice Biennale, and instead of creating an artefact within the exhibition space, he used the opportunity to make a critical and ironic analysis of the role of the artist in a pre-established condition, contrasting the zoo and the its regulations, in "Analysis of an operational role". There were multiple exhibitions in the seventies, in 1970 at the Christian Stein Gallery in Turin and at the Bertesca in Genoa, in 1972 at the Galleria del Naviglio, in 1973 at the Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund and at the Galleria l'Uomo e l'Arte in Milan. He died in Parma on 30 January 2009.
