THREE LOOKS OVER MAR DEL PLATA - PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEO MAR

Curated by the director of the Bellas Artes, Andrés Duprat, this exhibition brings together three singular, lucid and significant views on the city of Mar del Plata at different times in its historical evolution: the 1950s, by Annemarie Heinrich; the decade of the 80’s, by Ataúlfo Pérez Aznar; and 2001, by Alberto Goldenstein.

“Each one of the series,” says Duprat, “portrays aspects of daily life in Mar del Plata that, unfailingly but without intending to, have as their background key moments in Argentine history: Social tourism promoted by the first Peronism in the 1940s and 50’s and the visibility of the working class (Heinrich); the passage from dictatorship to democracy in the 1980s (Pérez Aznar), and the political and economic crisis of 2001 (Goldenstein)."

“The set of photographs by these three artists reveals the metamorphosis of the city, the transformations of the urban landscape and the changes in social customs. However, it also allows us to verify continuities, the unalterable, that which manages to transcend time such as geographical invariants: the beach and the sea”, adds the curator.

For his part, the National Minister of Culture, Tristán Bauer, reflects: “Those who attend the exhibition will contemplate these works that display the views and sensitivity of the authors, and I am sure that as they leave the museum behind and immerse themselves in the city again, they will rediscover it, see it with new eyes, evoke those pasts and modify their perception of the present thanks to their lived experience”.

ANNEMARIE HEINRICH (Darmstadt, Germany, 1912-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005). She is an outstanding photographer, born in Germany and nationalized in Argentina, who throughout her 60-year career addressed various topics and managed to establish a photographic language and a style of her own. She made productions for film, theater, radio and photonovela, and was one of the most recognized professionals in Argentina. In the 1940s and 1950s, she photographed the most important personalities in show business. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the country and abroad. Her works are part of the permanent collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the National Museum of Cinema and several international museums. She was declared an Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires and, during her career, she obtained outstanding awards and distinctions.

ATAÚLFO PÉREZ AZNAR (La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1955). He is a Geography professor graduated from the National University of La Plata, where he also studied History at the School of Humanities and Cultural Anthropology. He founded, in 1980, Omega: the first specialized photo gallery in the country from which he has developed an uninterrupted and intense activity of photographic dissemination. This activity has been channeled both through teaching, which he has exercised at Omega since 1981, as well as in talks and conferences in different parts of the country and abroad. He taught courses at the National University of La Plata. In 1996, he created the Photogallery of the Dardo Rocha Passage in the city of La Plata, which he directed until 2006. His works are included in the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Museum of Fine Arts of Salvador, Bahia , Brazil, and the Photo Library of Cuba.

ALBERTO GOLDENSTEIN (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1951). He studied at the New England School of Photography in Boston, United States. In Buenos Aires, he participated in the Photography Clinics of the Cultural Center of the City of Buenos Aires (now Recoleta). From 1995 to 2019, he directed the Photogallery of the Centro Cultural Rojas. There he exhibited new and established referents of contemporary Argentine photography. In 2001, he produced the series "Mar del Plata", and exhibited the first edition in "Al sur del sur", at the Casa de América in Madrid, and in 2002, at the General San Martín Theater Photo Gallery. His work is part of the collections at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Castagnino Museum of Rosario, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), and important collections of the country and of the outside.