Backlighting Photographs by Juan Gatti

The Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, in collaboration with the local government of Madrid, presents the exhibition entitled Backlighting by Argentinean artist Juan Gatti. With a total of 350 photographs of different sizes and techniques, the show will remain open to the public until March 17, 2013 at the Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori and at the Planetarium "Galileo Galilei."

The exhibition is structured in three parts. The first one is the anthology and includes the most representative works from the last thirty years across the various disciplines developed by Gatti. Its purpose is to review this designer's rich universe through the several fields he has worked in; from fashion photography, editorial photography, design applied to objects, graphic design, poster design for films, design pieces for film credits, art direction for fashion magazines and other projects in which he has developed his creative work.

The second part of the photographic Backlighting project involves Gatti's more personal work that, for the first time in his career, is conceived without the application of any other medium. Here the artist relies on the aesthetic of the photogram, where the images appear neatly cut over a black background to conjugate a unified universe in which light appears and gives meaning to form.

The exhibition is complemented and ends with audiovisual work shown at the Planetarium with the title of Backlighting, Sound + Vision. The first two parts of the exhibition are exhibited at the Museo Sívori, while the third part is shown at the planetarium.