RO Art Gallery to Showcase Hugo Aveta’s “Reading Time”

RO Art Gallery is going to exhibit Hugo Aveta’s “Reading Time (Leer el Tiempo)”, starting on Thursday May 15, 1900 hours.

Curated by Adriana Almada, the display is made up of pictures taken by Aveta from videos he took from internet on the 2001 demonstrations in Argentina. The artist extracted videos and played frame by frame on photographic emulsion, so the process to produce the works is back on the lab. Nevertheless, it happens in the opposite direction because the images don’t come out of the emulsion, but they pass through it.

According to Almada: “These images are the result of combinatory operations that, based on the alleged veracity of the document, reorganize and multiply meanings and, upon doing it, they modify their origin and destination”.

Hugo Aveta (Córdoba, 1965) studied film-making and architecture, and he later turned to photography. He carried out his first displays in the early 1990 decade and, ever since, he has shown his work in Argentina and abroad, with outstanding results in biennales and institutional exhibitions. He was granted a scholarship by the National Fund of Arts (2001), First Honorable Award at the National Visual Arts Show of the Republic of Argentina (2002), First National Award given by OSDE Foundation (2006) and the First Petrobras Buenos Aires Photo Award (2007), among other recognitions. Aveta participated in Résidence Photoquai at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (2012) and his work was bought by that museum. In 2014 he exhibited Primary Rhythms, the Subversion of Soul (Ritmos Primarios, la subversión del alma) in Nextgalerie, Paris, France, and his video was chosen to participate in LOOP Barcelona 2014.