Pinta BAphoto is a unique art fair proposal in Latin America. Specialized in photography and with 19 years of trajectory, it takes place every year in Buenos Aires. Each edition features the participation of more than 40 galleries from all over the world as well as sections curated by prestigious figures of Latin American art.
From September 28 to October 1, 2023, Pinta BAphoto will hold its new edition in Pavilion 8 at La Rural.
Galerías participantes
Esta sección te invita a visitar galerías especializadas en fotografía, que representan a artistas de diferentes partes del mundo.
Artist tribute
Curator Francisco Medail
As part of a new edition of the fair, BAphoto announces Boleslaw Senderowicz as the Tribute Artist 2023. Senderowicz was a pioneer photographer in the local fashion world who worked for years in Editorial Abril’s Claudia magazine. There, he was able to build his own style, characterized by the staging of sophisticated models in urban settings, unusual for this type of productions. Senderowicz was also part of the group La Carpeta de los Diez, along with Annemarie Heinrich, George Friedman and Juan Di Sandro, among other pioneers who were homaged by the fair in previous editions. In that sense, the tribute to Senderowicz traces a continuity in the curatorial policy of the fair, in addition to highlighting one of the most important photographic archives of the printed culture of the 20th century.
Fuera de Foco
Curator: Bárbara Golubick
A sector devoted to the exploration of different procedures, languages and materialities the photographic medium makes possible.
In this way, the curatorial proposal of Fuera de Foco reinforces the purpose of giving visibility to the work of emerging artists and galleries from all over the country, and to serve as a platform where its heterogeneity enables the presentation of the medium's universe of possibilities. Photography as an experimental record of the world, as an exploration of the relationship between memory and archive, or as an intense modulation between intimate gaze and social reality finds a flexible and receptive space to open up to a renewed public.
Adriana Lestido
Special Project, Curator: Irene Gelfman.
Rolf Art gallery.
The 2023 edition of Pinta BAphoto presents a Solo Project by Argentine photographer Adriana Lestido, a key reference in Latin American photography. The exhibition revolves around the mother-and-daughter theme and the mythical work "Mother and Daughter of Plaza de Mayo", taken by Lestido in 1985.
Video Project
Curaduría: Irene Gelfman
Video Project es un sector dedicado exclusivamente a la imagen en movimiento.
En su séptima edición, la propuesta apunta a la presentación de videos que problematizan la relación de los cuerpos con el entorno. A partir de la premisa que ningún enunciado puede darse sin la presencia de una voz, de una superficie, sin hacerse cuerpo en un elemento sensible y sin dejar rastro en un espacio o en una memoria, se seleccionaron proyectos que expanden la materialidad física y conceptual del video y obligan al espectador a relacionarse con el mundo que lo rodea.
Andrés Ramírez Gavira
Special Project, Curator: María A. Iovino Moscarella.
For this edition of Pinta BAphoto, Andrés Ramírez Gavira proposes "Sources", a work in which photography is involved with various research strategies including sound and mathematics.
Wunderkammer
Hilario. Artes Letras Oficios
Hilario. Artes, Letras & Oficios
Since 2015, Wunderkammer has been the fair’s section dedicated to heritage photography. Its aim is to highlight the work of different agents specialized in recovering and enhancing historical and documentary photographic material.
Premios y Adquisiciones
Este año Pinta BAphoto cuenta un programa de Premios y Adquisiciones con la intención de fortalecer el mercado.
Auditorio 2023
Coordination: Vero Santalla
Pinta BAphoto presents Auditorio, a series of conversations with artists, curators, collectors, gallery owners and museum directors from the local and international scene, who will reflect on different aspects of photography and contemporary art.
Hambre de futuro
Special Project, Sponsored by La Nación.
Hambre de Futuro (Hunger for the Future) presents the exhibition " Sueños" (Dreams), which seeks to make visible the deepest desires and challenges of children with fewer opportunities.
It is part of a Fundación LA NACIÓN's project, that has been traveling around the country for 5 years to understand in first person the reality of the most neglected children: what they play at, what they wish for and how they imagine themselves when they grow up.
Simetría Doméstica - Libro de Artistas
Curator: Estefanía Papescu
Simetría Doméstica is a project by Estefanía Papescu. She is interested in the small investigations, annotations, drawings that an artist or writer may think are unpublishable or that will never leave the domestic sphere, but that are often foundational for those works that finally circulate in the art system or, simply, remain as suspended projects, but are not less poetic for that reason. These are the projects that have priority, the kitchen of artists and writers.
Paragrafica
La Paragráfica became one of the key sectors in Pinta BAphoto. The bookstore has had a stand since 2018 at the fair to offer a unique selection of books and photobooks.
Attended by professional booksellers with more than forty years of experience, La Paragráfica is the online Argentine bookstore that exclusively offers art, design and photography books.
Larivière Editions
Ediciones Larivière was founded in 1992. It occupies a special place in the Argentine publishing world due to the high thematic and artistic impact of its books and the visual quality that distinguishes them. Since then, the South American cultural heritage, particularly the Argentinean one, began to nurture its catalog. It publishes both established artists and new generations.
Guided Tours
Guides: Rosario Villani and Vanesa Catellani
This program proposes an approach to the fair through guided tours. Each visit will explore a selection of works under the photographers' perspective, who will present the traditional and contemporary uses of photography from different approaches.
To this end, a special selection of works will be prioritized to delve into various topics such as: artistic genres in photography, its technical qualities, new materials and media that are part of contemporary photography and the appreciation of the value of those images linked to traditional discourses, but seen from a current approach.
Curators
The Pinta Photo 2023 curatorial team is composed of Irene Gelfman, Bárbara Golubicki and Francisco Medail.
Pinta Concept
Pinta unifies its fairs and expands Latin American art to the world
With an experience of more than fifteen years bringing Latin American art to the world, we unify our art and photography fairs, and our cooperation and integration programs, under the Pinta brand; renewing our purpose of highlighting and enhancing the talent of emerging and established artists linked to the region.
News in Buenos Aires
Two Interconnected Exhibitions at MACBA
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA) presents the exhibitions Trans Humo by Pablo La Padula and Flow Flow by Daniel Joglar.
León Ferrari at Bellas Artes Museum. A Life of Commitment and Sensitivity
León Ferrari. Recurrencias (León Ferrari. Recurrences) is the first solo exhibition that the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes dedicates to the Argentinean artist.
The Sky and its History: The Group Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires
The exhibition A 18 minutos del sol (At 18 Minutes from the Sun) at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires addresses astronomical observation and access to outer space as the key elements to activate a dialogue between artistic imagination and scientific exploration.
Green Manifesto at the Buenos Aires Modern Museum
The exhibition Manifiesto verde (Green Manifesto) at the Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires takes its title from the declaration written in 1971 by artist Nicolás García Uriburu in which he expressed his desire to denounce the antagonism between nature and civilization.
An exceptional entrepreneurial spirit has characterized EFG since its inception, empowering it to become one of today’s leading financial institutions focused on private banking, with a presence in 40 countries around the world. That spirit exists in all areas of the organization and aims to deliver creative and agile wealth solutions that ensure positive, lasting relationships.
A strong commitment to modern and contemporary Latin American art is part of EFG’s institutional essence. Combined with its key entrepreneurial spirit, EFG seeks to promote artists and fairs regionally as well as globally.
For the fifth time, EFG announces its support as the main sponsor of Pinta Photo. Additionally, the EFG Latin American Art Award, presented in collaboration with ArtNexus magazine, underlines EFG’s commitment to the region, its culture, and its people.
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