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Salomone by Esteban Pastorino  (January 26, 2010)

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Curator Statement - Marcelo Brodsky on Esteban Pastorino
Esteban Pastorino is a special photographer. He builds his own cameras. He creates his way of seeing from scratch. He imagines it and then sets the tools up to make it happen. His work on the Salamone buildings in the Province of Buenos Aires, the richest one in Argentina where the Pampas are, looks back into a time in which modernization in Latin America was influenced by European visions, brought by the millions of immigrants that came to these countries to look for fortune and a new life. The Italian classic spirit of Salamone's architecture, may have been influenced by a fascist vision. Monumental shapes stand in the middle of the Pampas, their ghastly look captured by Pastorino's camera. The black and white essay presented here anticipates the vibrant maquette-like images that Pastorino is now known for.
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Our poll "A photo essay always needs a great written story" closed. 267 people voted, 28% agrees, 72% disagrees. 233 people answered our follow-up question "Are you a photographer?" 82% indicated they are, 18% said no. Initially, negative answers to question #1 were almost 100% as was the pecentage of photographers among respondants. Then, when the level of non-photographers started to rise, the percentage of people indicating good text is always essential started to rise too. This seems to indicate that non-photographers think that adding good text to your photo essays is essential. In my opinion: if you want non-photographers to dig your work, you know what to do...

Artist Testimonial

In 1998 and 2001 I travelled around the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) with the purpose of making a photographic survey on Architect Francisco Salomone's buildings. His work, developed between 1936 and 1940, in approximately twentyfive towns and cities of the province, was compliant with the plan of Manuel Fresco’s conservative government, which aimed at building slaughter houses, cemeteries, and town halls in several areas of his jurisdiction.

My interest towards this issue was first aroused in 1997 by a documentary exhibition held at Borges Cultural Centre. In it, the art critic Edward Shaw presented information on the majority of Salomone's production. Fascinated by the symbolic implications of this building program -symbols that enter the political, historical, literary and, in general, ideological grounds- I made the decision of exploring this architecture by means of the photographic media.

Salomone's work is a monumental and wonderfully creative expression of a style in which Art Deco and Rationalism merge. In my view, and analyzing it from the perspective given by the current situation, his task as official architect shows the failure of a country's project. Although Fresco's management was quite successful, behind his ambitious urban program, the failure of the rich agricultural and farming Argentina utopia became apparent once again. And this failure broadens the gap between that fiction we still believe in, and the reality we are not yet determined to accept.


Esteban Pastorino (1972) lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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