EspacioArte Aeroparque formally opened its 63rd exhibition with an opening cocktail on July 1. It can be found in the arrivals hall at Jorge Newbery City Airport in the City of Buenos Aires.
EspacioArte is a non-profit project aimed at promoting culture and art. This venture jointly undertaken by Corporación América and Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 came to life in 2003 with a first stand at Jorge Newbery City Airport in Buenos Aires. However, since 2008 it has extended to the airports of Bariloche, Resistencia, Salta, Córdoba, Jujuy, Mar del Plata, Iguazú, Mendoza, Neuquén, Tucumán, Viedma, and Bahía Blanca, and to Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 Corporate Building in Palermo, in the City of Buenos Aires.
This exhibition shows the sculptures and photographs of plastic artists Elina Misrahi, Asher Benatar, and Ezequiel Scagnetti. It is open to the public until July 14, 2010, from 7 AM to 10 PM.
Elina Misrahi was born in the City of Buenos Aires in 1968. She started her studies with ceramist and sculpture masters in 1975. As an artist, she has been recognized with a number of awards and special mentions in different halls and exhibitions. The sculptor has exhibited her works in different cities around the globe, including Washington, D.C. (Aaron Gallery); Miami (DaVinci’s Gallery); Bariloche (Llao Llao Hotel); and Buenos Aires (Dogma). Elina masters different techniques and brings to the airport several sculptures made with ceramics, pewter, cold bronze casting in earth, cement, and hard plaster, handling figurative and abstract art with refined delicacy.
Asher Benatar is a photographer, short-story writer, novelist, and playwright. He has participated in 26 exhibitions organized in Buenos Aires, Mexico, Paris, Zürich, San Francisco, and New York. The last two exhibitions were organized early in 2010 at Recoleta Cultural Center and at the House of Culture in San Isidro. Benatar started his artistic career when he was 19 years old, and engaged in portraits and photography for the fashion world. He is the publisher and author of 14 photography publications. In the exhibition, we can admire his remarkable inventive capacity through a series of direct shots where red and a distinctive and continuous movement prevails, causing a number of different emotions, particularly passion and attraction.
Ezequiel Scagnetti (34) is Argentine. He resides in Brussels since 2000. His work focuses on cultural and tourist journalism. He kicked off his career in photojournalism in San Martín de los Andes, the city where he settled after leaving his homeland, Córdoba. He studied photography edition, studio lighting, and journalism, history of art, geopolitics, and digital touch-up techniques. The European press has published his pictures. Thus, his work can be seen in Gentleman, Der Spiegel, El País, Paris Match, Newsweek, and Geo, among others. He presented his work in Brussels, Hungary, and Buenos Aires. “World’s Portraits” is an exhibition that combines printed and digital material. It focuses on portraits made in different countries as part of a documentary intended to record different cultural and religious expressions around the world.
