PINTA BAphoto 2024

PINTA BAphoto 2024: new section at RADAR

This year, Pinta BAphoto is holding 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.

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The RADAR section, curated by Sebastián Vidal Mackinson, is proposed as a platform to make visible 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 broadening 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 engage with issues related to gender, the body, graphic information, nature, the urban and identity. These themes reflect an attentive approach to the tensions and transformations of the contemporary, showing how photographic language overflows beyond its traditional limits.

RADAR is configured as a collective platform that encourages interaction between artists and diverse audiences. By promoting this exchange of views, experiences and concerns, the exhibition enriches the dialogue on the challenges and possibilities of photography in contemporary art, bringing the public closer to a visual language in constant expansion.

In this edition of Pinta BAphoto, the section will feature the participation of the 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); Jupiter (Córdoba, Argentina); Mite (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Nora Fisch (Buenos Aires, Argentina); and Valerie´s Factory (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Sebastián Vidal Mackinson (Lic. Arts -FFyL, UBA-/PhD student in History UNSAN/IDAES) is a curator, researcher and teacher of curatorship and contemporary art (ESEADE, UCA, UNA). He has obtained the Profession Culture scholarship 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 arteBA 2015, with the proposal Europe. Journey, landscape, cartography. In 2020 he was an Argentine curator invited to the Arco Fair.
In 2023 he received a scholarship to participate in CIMAM Buenos Aires. He was curator of the Sívori (2017-2021) and was a member of the curatorial department of the Moderno (2016-2017). He has served as a jury in various awards and calls (Klemm, Andreani, Fortabat, Osde, Banco Central, Semana del Arte, Oxenford, Belgrano, MNBA). He has curated several solo and group exhibitions, including Alienígena. Emilio Renart and his artistic and social practice (Col. Fortabat, 2024), Relationships end in tragedy (CAC, UNLP, 2023), Sleeping dressed. Eugenia Calvo (Colección Fortabat, 2022), Nicolás Varchausky. P.A.I.S. Archive (CASo, 2021), Museum without time (Sívori, 2021), An eyelid full of sap. Martha Zuik. Drawings 1954-1979 (Sívori, 2021), Territorial Corporealities. An approach to contemporary Chilean art (CCMatta, 2019), Ecologies (Sívori, 2018), Consternations / Constellations (Casa Fernandini, Lima, 2017), Oasis (arteba, 2016), Sovereignty of Use (Osde, 2014), Pantheon of Heroes (Osde, 2011).

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