La apertura oficial incluyó un espectáculo de tango y contó con la asistencia del Ministro de Cultura porteño y presidente del Ente Turismo de Buenos Aires, Hernán Lombardi, y del Presidente de la Filial Buenos Aires de la Asociación Hoteles de Turismo (AHT), Gastón Casoy.

“Aldo retrata el alma de Buenos Aires y hoy, en el contexto de Buenos Aires, es sentido común que haya también nueve fotos que evoquen los lugares del Santo Padre. A nosotros nos interesa particularmente el turismo cultural y con la exhibición de esta magnífica muestra aquí y luego en Amsterdam, París y Madrid la intención es también atraer más turistas a Buenos Aires.”, -dijo el Ministro Lombardi.

Por su parte, Aldo Sessa expresó: “Estoy honrado y feliz como porteño de estar acá. Sentimos el amor por Buenos Aires y es lindísimo hacerla ver, ya que es una ciudad simpática, gentil con la gente, muy cosmopolita y con grandes artistas.”

La exposición, de 56 obras, se montó en la Sala Regia del museo de Palazzo Venezia. Está dividida en cuatro secciones: Arquitectura y Paisaje; Teatro Colón; Tango y Santo Padre y fue organizada por Artifex Argentina con el auspicio del Ministerio de Cultura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, el Polo Museal de Roma y la dirección de Cultura del Arzobispado de Buenos Aires, entre otros.

La muestra incluye imágenes en blanco y negro de los monumentos más emblemáticos de la Ciudad, por ejemplo las cúpulas de la Avenida de Mayo, las estaciones de Retiro y Once o el café Tortoni. Otro eje temático de la exposición es el dedicado al Papa Francisco, en el que pueden apreciarse fotos hechas por Aldo Sessa en los lugares que el cardenal Jorge Bergoglio solía frecuentar.

ACCIONES PROMOCIONALES INTERNACIONALES Y NACIONALES DEL SEGUNDO SEMESTRE 2013

Comienza el segundo semestre de promoción con re direccionamiento del plan promocional lanzado durante la primera reunión del Comité Interministerial con acciones directas de alto impacto dirigidas al público y con foco en el mercado nacional e internacional.

Las acciones directas de promoción en el mercado nacional y en el internacional cubrirán el 70% de la cuota total de las llegadas internacionales a la Argentina. Los mercados del interior en los que se realizará promoción durante este segundo semestre agendan 49 acciones en 15 provincias que son: provincia de Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Catamarca, Tucumán, Jujuy, Salta, Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Chaco, Santa Fe, Misiones, Neuquén, Río Negro y Tierra del Fuego.

En el segmento de reuniones son 5 acciones internacionales en 5 países hasta fin de año: China, Estados Unidos, España, Colombia y México. En el mercado internacional, el tango será el eje más importante con acciones de alto poder de convocatoria.

“Generamos mayor cantidad de acciones directas con fuerte llegada en todos los mercados y unimos áreas transversales de gobierno en un trabajo conjunto y facilitador hacia las necesidades del sector en la Ciudad”, aseguró el Presidente del Ente Turismo y Ministro de Cultura porteño, Hernán Lombardi.

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While reflection can refer to both the exterior optical phenomenon of light bouncing off a surface, it is also the interior mental process of thoughtful recollection of what has been experienced. This particular selection of images presents a survey of Sessa’s continuing – and changing – response to New York City as a visitor over the past two decades. Encompassing twenty-seven pigment prints ranging in size from 16×20 to 38×45, the majority on view are in black & white with most of those in color exhibiting such a muted palette that they could almost pass for monochromatic. The style varies from formal design to more spontaneous street shots. The subject, however, remains the city. Its inhabitants are subordinate; when shown, they often appear in silhouette or as shadows.

The formal approach is most evident in the images of the structures: the Brooklyn Bridge (2012), the Flatiron Building (2010) and the Guggenheim (1990). Subjects are often revisited and elements repeated. The Chrysler Building is a case in point: Its spire is centered formally in three images from 1991 and 2010. However, the building also figures in the bilateral symmetry of a reflection from 2008 and in the background of an image featuring strong shadows from 1989. The Statue of Liberty is treated in several images: While acutely massive in a low angle view from her feet (1991), she appears miniscule in the distance in two others (1991, 2013).

Reflections appear in other photographs: some distorted as in the Empire State and Traffic Jam; an intriguingly deceptive one of the Flatiron reflected in a puddle looks at first like a low-angle view until one notices the cigarette butt in the corner. The shadows and silhouettes that appear in other images yield a somewhat otherworldly, almost dreamlike, effect that effectively distances the viewer. Two photos juxtaposing passerby with overlarge posters on Fifth Ave, Two Worlds, Fifth Avenue, presage Natan Dvir’s recent “Coming Soon” show at Anastasia Gallery. Separated by time, both have recorded similar serendipitous juxtapositions.

As with any subject, it takes time to get to know New York City and go beyond the media imagery that colors the first actual physical experience of it. This sampling of Aldo Sessa’s work offers a look at his continuing engagement with New York City and some of the ways his perception of it has changed. His series of images of Tango, Gauchos, Buenos Aires, and still-lifes are featured on his website.

“Love at first sight” is how the acclaimed Latin American photographer Aldo Sessa describes his 40 year long love affair with New York City…..

“Aldo Sessa demonstrates unparalleled originality in his images of the Flatiron Building and MoMA, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Twin Towers, Statue of Liberty, Empire State and Chrysler Buildings and Fifth Avenue” – Spencer Throckmorton

Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibit of 25 photographs of New York City by the long-reigning “dean” of photography in Argentina, Aldo Sessa. Now in his seventies, Sessa is widely hailed in his native Argentina and in neighboring South American countries. His work has been shown throughout the region, in both museums and galleries. In a bid to introduce Sessa’s work to a wider audience, Throckmorton is showing 25 beautifully developed black and white gelatin silver prints of Sessa’s photographs of New York City. “ALDO SESSA: Reflections of New York City” will be featured at the Throckmorton Fine Art gallery at 145 East 57th Street from Sept 19 – Nov 9 2013.

Spencer Throckmorton says, “For the last four decades Aldo Sessa and his family have traveled each year to New York City where his fascination with the city has produced images of New York that are unlike those someone born here would produce. Sessa sees the city from “another angle.” And, while Sessa is well known for his images of Buenos Aires, another cosmopolitan city, the real contrast is seen in Sessa images of isolated rural areas of Argentina’s vast countryside, which has just 15 percent less territory than India, yet a population of only 40 million. With those reference points it’s not surprising that Sessa’s NY ‘lens’ is focused on the city’s unique urbanity: the circulating populous and the colossal height of the buildings – which he captures with a rare vision and sensitivity. His unique photograph of the Statue of Liberty being one noticeable example.”

Aldo Sessa says, “I never forget that Manhattan is exceptional and as such, is constantly changing and offering new and rare angles. The mixture of styles, the colossal height of the buildings, the singular rhythm of the cosmopolitan people that circulate through the streets and the energy produced by these contrasts make me feel anonymous, tiny. My senses feed upon this vibrant and ever-changing scenario that challenges me to find and register unseen images and their magic.

“As I begin my search for a prey, the adrenalin raises, I go into ecstasy, forget the world around me and press the trigger. I have climbed to improve the angle of my shots, I have buried myself in a snowed Central Park, I have shot in the fog and the rain and moved stealthily like a cat between the iron railings and bridges.

“This City is a place of wonderful memories, a place that I have shared with my wife Teresita, our family and very dear friends. We always enjoy the varied cultural events that the city offers us. I believe New York is and always will be my muse and the site of my professional evolution. Today, my passion for New York is intact as when I saw it for the first time fifty years ago. I am very proud and feel honored to share these photographs with you, at this marvelous and prestigious gallery.”

Jorge Taverna Irigoyen, Former President of National Academy of Fine Arts, Argentina says, “Sessa is an untiring worker and his own work is the clearest testimony. He has never given up a project halfway through, nor has he allowed any accomplishment to quench, randomly, his insatiable craving for perfection. His art is a combination of imponderables that he knows all very well; and however, like an infinite Big Wheel, he continues on an endless search, in the internalized conception, in the innumerable approaches that add faces, that go deeply into worlds surpassing distances. Globalization and global thought do not disquiet his lens: rather they make it more mature, they furnish it with a whole new inner wisdom so as not to give in to concessions. His esthetic thought is clear, categorical, taken to the limit. And the universe of his images gets concentrated and defined, in a sharper and sharper fashion, as if the half century that has gone by had not done anything but encourage a unique love, as unique as a fingerprint.”

Kraige Block adds, “Sessa’s images of New York are, despite his “maturity,” fresh and youthful. Sessa succeeds in making us look again—and more appreciatively—at familiar icons of New York.”

Among highlights in the “Aldo Sessa: Reflections of New York City” show are images of a Polar Bear at the zoo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and MoMA, as well as the Bryant Park Carousel, the Grand Central Synagogue and a double exposure of the Empire State Building. He captures individuals in different spots around the city too, going about their day, as well as views of Rockefeller Center, and several of the Statue of Liberty, including one taken in 1 991 during the Gulf War. The Chrysler Building is a favorite subject with images shot over more than a twenty year span.

Throckmorton Fine Art holds in its archives images from Sessa’s work in Argentina as well as photographs by other accomplished Latin American artists. It is offering a catalogue of this show, ALDO SESSA: Reflections of New York City.

“Love at first sight” is how the acclaimed Latin American photographer Aldo Sessa describes his 40 year long love affair with New York City. Throckmorton Fine Art (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) is pleased to present an exhibit of 25 photographs of New York City by the long-reigning “dean” of photography in Argentina, Aldo Sessa. Now in his seventies, Sessa is widely hailed in his native Argentina and in neighboring South American countries. His work has been shown throughout the region, in both museums and galleries. In a bid to introduce Sessa’s work to a wider audience, Throckmorton is showing 25 beautifully developed black and white gelatin silver prints of Sessa’s photographs of New York City. “ALDO SESSA: Reflections of New York City” will be featured at the Throckmorton Fine Art gallery at 145 East 57th Street from Sept 19 – Nov 9 2013.