Artist: 

Francisca López

Curator: 

Rafael Cippolini

Francisca López's exhibition can be described as a form of visual meditation and communion with the works of Hungarian photographer Bandi Binder (1917-2006) and American painter Sally Dietrich, his partner. Works upon works, where visions multiply in an effect that the painter and astrologer Xul Solar defined as "the invasion of an intimate, yet collective sea".

Francisca López

Born in Buenos Aires in 1974, Francisca López lived in Caracas between 1977 and 1984. In 2005, she moved to Barcelona for five years and then to Berlin, where she stayed until 2013. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.

Since 1998, her photographic work and artistic research have been deeply focused on Hungarian-born photographer Bandi Binder, with whom she shared a profound friendship during the final years of his life.

She is also committed to the promotion and preservation of Binder’s archive, in collaboration with his widow, American painter Sally Dietrich.

Bandi Binder

Endre "Bandi" Binder was born in Hungary in 1917 and passed away in Argentina in 2006. He lived and worked alternately in Argentina, Uruguay, and the United States. A self-taught photographer, he excelled in portraiture and later in nude photography, aligning with the rise of female liberation in the 1960s.

The pop and psychedelic movements of the years he spent in San Francisco and Los Angeles left a strong mark on his style. He experimented with unconventional photographic techniques, which is why many of his vintage photographs are unique prints. Between the 1940s and 1990s, he dedicated himself to capturing portraits of traditional Argentine and Uruguayan families vacationing in Punta del Este.

Rafael Cippolini

Born in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province, in 1967, Rafael Cippolini has developed a unique writing style since his early publications in the late 1980s, blending essay, chronicle, fiction, and cultural criticism.

Since the late 1990s, he has worked as an independent art curator. He was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (2013–2014).

Between 2007 and 2011, he actively maintained the blog Cippodromo, a reference for online essays. His current website is RFLC Web.

In 2017, the Konex Foundation awarded him a Diploma of Merit as one of the five best visual arts journalists of the past decade in Argentina.