By Pame Aguirre Leonetti
Buenos Aires’ annual photography party has already started. BA Photo, the most important fair of Latin America, officially welcomed the 36 local and international galleries that take part in its fourteenth edition.
The exhibition –which has six curators and more than one hundred artists- offers photographs of all kinds. There are classic, modern, pop and contemporary images with topics that go from social protests to fantastic landscapes.
Le Banana picks!
What we liked the most was the pop and contemporary side of the fair. Artworks of the series Los monstruos de las Ocampo, by the artist born in Rosario Lila Siegrist, exhibited by the gallery Gabelich Contemporáneo, are among our top favorites.
We also loved the photographs of Manuel Archain, an Argentine young photographer who plays with reality in different ways. In some of his works, like in Alexanderplatz, he makes objects bigger and people as small as a plea. While in others he uses loud colors and he makes surrealist portraits similar to René Magritte’s famous The Son of Man. The result? Enchanting artworks that people could be watching for ages.
Arturo Aguiar is other of our favorite artists of BA Photo. He looks at the world in an abstract and experimental way and in so doing he creates works of powerful colors and psychedelic forms, such as Forms of light/Formas de luz, a pop series worthy of praise.
Javier Bellomo Coria, Marina Font and Bea Blousson are also part of our picks. They are three totally different artists who experiment in various ways – cutting photos, drawing mental maps on portraits or changing urban landscapes- but who have one thing in common: they all enchant the audience.
When?
September 7 through 9 from 14 to 21.
Where?
La Rural exhibition ground, Room 8.
Enjoy!