This Friday 18 October, two new samples may be taken in the Latin American space Photo Library (BLOOD): "Dark West", de Bryan Schutmaat y “Looking for the masters in Ricardo´s golden Shoes”, the Catherine Balet.

First and curated by Pablo Cabado, "The Dark West" consists of two projects in the mythical western region of the United States. The most recent of these series, tentatively titled "Vessels", It was photographed in the desert area of ​​the region.

Performed entirely in black and white, these photographs include intimate portraits of travelers and wanderers finger highways, who live along the interstate system. The series also consists of landscapes and diverse images of objects that reflect a country in danger, amid the ravages of the great environmental deterioration, economic dispossession and social abandonment. Under these premises, Schutmaat has as objective to capture the human capacity to resist.

On the other hand, the collection “Looking for the masters in Ricardo´s golden shoes” Catherine Balet collaboration with collaboration of Ricardo Martinez Paz, It will be exhibited in the halls 2 Y 3 enclosure located on Godoy Cruz 2620. Bale based his work on a personal experience that began in 2013, durante el famouse festival fotográfico "Photographic Encounters".

There Ricardo Martinez Paz, of 73 years, whose resemblance to Picasso's amazing, he sat forward some bread. Wearing a shirt and striped sailor look was something elusive. Catherine Balet looked at him and immediately thought of the famous photograph of Picasso Robert Doisneau. She took her camera and immortalized the exact moment to unleash their irresistible desire to go further. Then they followed two and a half years of intensive work, that led these two friends to explore the entire history of photography, from the first self-portrait of Robert Cornelius in 1839 until today selfies.

Gaston Deleau, CEO of FOLA, said that "the samples close programming 2019 They are very important to us, as we will have the presence of both artists visiting for the first time our country, "adding: "In the case of Catherine Balet sample packs a lot of pictures that recreate much of the history of photography with reinterpretations of classics like Warhol, Mapplethorphe, Nan Goldin, Doisneau, Sanders y Hokney, among many others".

While the sample Bryan Schutmaat exposes "a frontal way American society, Upcountry, through portraits and very raw and realistic landscapes in remote villages where mining left its traces ".