Luz Castillo, Aldo Sessa y Pedro Roth.
In celebration of the anniversary of Pinta BAphoto, a tribute event was held on Saturday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. in the FORO space to honor the distinguished careers and contributions of cultural manager Luz Castillo and artists Aldo Sessa and Pedro Roth.
This recognition highlights the tireless work, continuous dedication, creativity, and enthusiasm of these three outstanding figures who have left a lasting impact on the national art scene to this day. Their work continues to inspire generations of artists, historians, curators, critics, and art enthusiasts.
Luz Castillo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1935. She graduated from the University of Economic Sciences and later studied visual arts with Ahuva Slimovicz and Eduardo Médici. She also studied theater with Hedy Crilla and dance with Ana Itelman. Additionally, she conducted research in philosophy and spent 25 years in the field, teaching, writing, and thinking while raising her children.
In the 1990s, Castillo opened her own art gallery in Belgrano, which later became ArtexArte. Over five years, this 250-square-meter gallery hosted numerous significant artists. In 2000, the gallery moved to Villa Crespo, where it remains today. The 1800-square-meter space, spread across four floors of 450 square meters each, offers vast opportunities, with multiple exhibition halls, a video room, a reading room, a specialized library, and a conference hall.
Pedro Roth was born in Hungary in 1938. He graduated with a degree in Cinematography from the University of La Plata and began his career as a photographer in 1960, with his artistic career starting in 1973. Roth has held numerous exhibitions in Argentina and abroad. He documented the most important artistic movements from the 1960s onward, creating a unique historical archive in Argentina. His works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Centro Cultural Recoleta, MAMBA, Buenos Aires Jewish Museum, Caraffa Museum, MACRO Museum of Rosario, Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, Ibero-Latin American Institute of Berlin, and the Torteneti Museum of Budapest. He has published the books Urban Thought and Rural Thought, and has participated in various artist collectives such as Cruz del Sur, Cantamessa, Borobio, and Inchauspe, and is currently part of the Estrella del Oriente collective. Roth has received numerous awards and recognitions in Argentina and internationally.
Aldo Sessa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1939. He began his artistic career at the age of ten at the De Ridder Workshop. He later specialized in graphic arts, design, audiovisuals, and photography. In 1958, he started contributing photographic works to the rotogravure section of La Nación newspaper. Sessa was the last photographer to document Ejercicio Plástico: The Mural of Siqueiros by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros at the Los Granados estate in Don Torcuato in 1990. A year later, he was named an Honorary Member of the Argentine Federation of Photography and an Academician of the National Academy of Fine Arts