PINTA BAphoto 2024: NEW RADAR SECTION

This year, Pinta BAphoto will hold its twentieth edition with new curatorial proposals to continue celebrating photography in Latin America. Based in Buenos Aires, the fair presents the new RADAR section, curated by Sebastián Vidal Mackinson.

The RADAR section, curated by Sebastián Vidal Mackinson, is proposed as a platform to showcase a new generation of national artists, mostly middle-aged, who have delved into the multiple procedures of photographic language. Through their practice, these artists have contributed to broaden the notion of contemporary art, definitively positioning photography as an autonomous, dynamic and culturally significant language within the current art scene.

The value of RADAR lies in its ability to bring together works that explore the complexities of the photographic act from a processual perspective, while integrating the social dimensions of art. The exhibited pieces address themes that dialogue with issues related to gender, the body, graphic information, nature, the urban sphere and identity. These themes reflect an attentive approach to the tensions and transformations of the present, showing how the photographic language goes beyond its traditional limits.

RADAR is set up as a collective platform that fosters interaction between artists and diverse audiences. By encouraging this exchange of views, experiences and concerns, the exhibition enriches the dialogue on the challenges and possibilities of photography in today's art, bringing the public closer to a visual language in constant expansion.

In this edition of Pinta BAphoto, the section will include the participation of the following galleries: Almacén (San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires, Argentina); Biomba (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina); Diego Obligado Galería de arte (Rosario Santa Fe, Argentina); Gachi Prieto (city of Buenos Aires, Argentina); HACHE (city of Buenos Aires, Argentina); Isla Flotante (city of Buenos Aires, Argentina); Júpiter (Córdoba, Argentina); Mite (city of Buenos Aires, Argentina); Nora Fisch (city of Buenos Aires, Argentina); and Valerie's Factory (city of Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Sebastián Vidal Mackinson (Lic. in Arts -FFyL, UBA-/PhD Candidate in History at UNSAN/IDAES) is a curator, researcher, and professor of curation and contemporary art (ESEADE, UCA, UNA). He received the Profession Culture grant as a researcher of Latin American art at the Institute Recherche et Globalisation (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2013) and Jumex ICI (Mexico City, 2014). He won the Young Curators Program at arteBA 2015 with the project Europe. Journey, Landscape, Cartography. In 2020, he was an invited Argentine curator at ARCO Madrid.

In 2023, he was awarded a fellowship to participate in CIMAM Buenos Aires. He was the curator at Museo Sívori (2017-2021) and was part of the curatorial department at Museo Moderno (2016-2017). He has served as a juror for various awards and calls for submissions (Klemm, Andreani, Fortabat, Osde, Banco Central, Semana del Arte, Oxenford, Belgrano, MNBA). He has curated several solo and group exhibitions, including notable ones such as Alienígena. Emilio Renart y su práctica artística y social (Fortabat Collection, 2024), Las relaciones terminan en tragedia (CAC, UNLP, 2023), Dormir vestida. Eugenia Calvo (Fortabat Collection, 2022), Nicolás Varchausky. Archivo P.A.I.S. (CASo, 2021), Museo sin tiempo (Sívori, 2021), Un párpado pleno de savia. Martha Zuik. Dibujos 1954-1979 (Sívori, 2021), Corporalidades territoriales. Una aproximación al arte contemporáneo chileno (CCMatta, 2019), Ecologías (Sívori, 2018), Consternaciones / Constelaciones (Casa Fernandini, Lima, 2017), Oasis (arteBA, 2016), Soberanía del Uso (Osde, 2014), and Panteón de los Héroes (Osde, 2011).

On the cover: Ana Gilligan -un mundo sin nosotros #23-2021_2023-50x70cm-fotografia b&n

Source: Arte Al Día