Juan Hitters: New photo exhibition "CONCRETO"

lunes, 21 de abril de 2014

New photo exhibition "CONCRETO"

A new photo-exhibition by Juan will be opening next Wednesday, April 23rd, at Federico Churba's showroom. Juan met Federico a couple of years ago when they were both handled the Cayc/Parex-Klaukol "Ventanas al futuro" prizes. Some months ago, Juan had to portrait Federico for a story on Argentina to be published in Wallpaper Magazine. Federico invited Juan to put up an exhibition at his space, as he though Juan's work would make a good blend with his pieces. The show is called CONCRETO and consists of 10 large (110X110 cmts) prints, all direct takes, no digital manipulation, of humidity stains found by Juan inside a tunnel in Sydney, 2013. The show is backed by the Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires and will be open until May 30th. The Ambassador Holmes will be attending the opening. The fine prints were made on Epson Cold Press cotton paper.

What's on the CD player this week

New film about Architect César Pelli

What's on the CD player this week

"Sound City": real to reel. Dave Grohl has put together many wonderful musicians and directed a documentary film called Sound City. The movie is about the sheer joy of playing and recording plain (or not so plain) rock music starring Chris Goss, Joshua Homme, Rupert Neve, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Rubin and Paul Mc Cartney to name just a few. The soundtrack is a true marvel, similar in a way to Slash's first solo album. It has been on steady rotation since I came back from Sydney.

Keith Jarrett at Teatro Colon

Tonight Keith Jarrett is improvising on the piano at Teatro Colon. It has been nearly three decades since I listened to "The Köln Concert" for the first time. The experience was revealing. It is probably one of the albums I have enjoyed the most. I clearly remember once driving with friends along a deserted road someplace in Uruguay while listening to Keith play the old Bösendorfer in Cologne. The compact cassette sounded awful, but I could do nothing but wonder: listening to this beautiful music recorded many years ago, in a far away city, while driving through this lonely country, was magic! Well, life has been good to me, and gave me the opportunity of contributing to ECM on Keith Jarrett's "Testament" album cover, a recording of two improvised concerts in Paris and London. This was a couple of years ago. Tonight I will be listening to the man himself, no state of the art recording or crappy cassette, just an incredible musician playing the piano. You bet I am looking forward to this experience.