LATIN AMERICA’S LARGEST PHOTO EXHIBITION (By Hostel Buenos Aires)

The 16 Edition of the Festival de la Luz (Light Festival), the largest photo festival in Latin America, has started. A meeting that been going on for 22 years and became biannual 12 years ago, traveling round our country with the best photography in our region. This year its subject is Migrations, entitled “Identities in transit”. The different activities will take place in 31 cities of Argentina, including Buenos Aires City.

Today, at 7PM, in the Rojas Cultural Center (2038 Corrientes Avenue) is one of the official inaugurations of this event that will last until September 30th. Other locations for the exhibitions are: The Nacional Fine Arts Museum (1473 Del Libertador Avenue), the Borges Cultural Center (525 Viamonte St.), the Recoleta Cultural Center (1930 Junín St.) and the House of Cultura of the Buenos Aires City Government (575 Avenida de Mayo), among others.

There will be 101 official exhibitions in museums and cultural centers around the country, as well as 50 supports from art galleries and art spaces which exhibit their own artists with free subject. Some of the outstanding exhibitions are:

Discoverings. Exhibition of the three prize winning artists of the 15th Edition of Light Festival: Florencia Blanco, Cayetano Arcidiacono (Italian-Argentines) and Leopoldo Plentz (Brazil), in the Recoleta Cultural Center.

Brassaï (Hungary - France). For the first time in Argentina, one of the fathers of universal photography, Gyula Halåsz, better known as Brassaï, 150 pictures in the National Fine Arts Museum, since August 3rd.

Invasion 68: Prague. Exhibition on the work of the Czech photographer Josef Koudelka in the Art Space of the OSDE Foundation in Buenos Aires (658 Suipacha St., 1st Floor), since August 5th until October 2nd.

Origin. Work of the Brazilian photographer Fifi Tong depicting 15 years of work on family portraits of Brazilian people. Families that came from Germany, China, Japan, India, Congo, among others. In Borges Cultural Center from August 4 to August 20.

More information on the exhibitions in the website: www.encuentrosabiertos.com.ar