Aldo Sessa “Reflections of New York City”
Throckmorton Fine Art
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Now in his seventies, Sessa is widely hailed in his native Argentina and in neighboring South American countries. His work has been shown throughout the region, in both museums and galleries. In a bid to introduce Sessa’s work to a wider audience, Throckmorton is showing 25 of Sessa’s photographs of New York City. The images are all black-and-white, beautifully developed gelatin silver prints.
Sessa’s work is comprised of images from Argentina, from Buenos Aires prominently, but also from isolated rural areas of the expansive country (which has just 15 percent less territory than India, yet a population of only 40 million). For the last four decades, though, Sessa has regularly traveled to another “port” facing the Atlantic Ocean: New York. Here he has labored, producing images of New York that are creative and innovative. He sees the city from “another angle,” noticeable, for example, in his unique photograph of the Statue of Liberty. Sessa’s images of New York are, despite his “maturity,” fresh and youthful. Sessa succeeds in making us look again—and more appreciatively at familiar icons of New York.
[mage: Aldo Sessa, Twin Towers, NYC, 1991, Gelatin Silver Print]
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from September 19, 2013 to November 09, 2013