September 10 - October 16, 2004

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery will host the first solo exhibition for Esteban Pastorino Diaz in America. Esteban is from Argentina and has been exhibiting his photographs in solo shows since 1997 in Argentina, Spain and Belgium.

There will be three series represented in this exhibit. His aerial series is made with a remote controlled camera attached to a kite. The landscape below looks odd and toy like. A birds-eye view gives a sense that one is looking at a town created by a toy train collector. This play with perspective is similar to works by Demand, Muniz and Casebere, only these objects are REAL. And all the objects could be actual toys that a boy would play with.

Esteban’s architectural studies were photographed at night. These buildings in Argentina were designed by the architect, Francisco Salamone (1898-1959), in the late 1930’s. The heroic Art Deco designs are quite grand and also eerie. There were only three building types that were commissioned: town halls, cemetery portals and slaughterhouses.

The final series, Panorámicas, is very playful like the aerial series. Esteban uses a strip camera in which the combination of speed and camera position creates kinetic panoramas of street scenes. The end result is contact prints of one entire role of 120 film.

Esteban’s photographs are in the following collections: Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; The Castagnino Museum, Rosario, Argentina; The Federico Klemm Foundation Collection, Argentina; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahia Blanca.



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