Gino Battiston

Photographer, cinematographer, video artist. Focuses on experimental hybrid forms between fiction and documentary. Studies in film, digital photography, direction, dramatic arts, sound engineering, and immersive audiovisual technologies. With over 30 years of professional experience in both the artistic and advertising fields, performing roles as a director and educator. Since 2001, has participated in various national and international exhibitions and fairs, including: the Marcelino Botín Award in Santander, Spain (2004), FRI-ART at the Fribourg Contemporary Art Center, Switzerland (2006), the “Low Key” exhibition at the Marcelino Botín Foundation in Santander, Spain (2008), TRIBECA at the ARCO 08 Expanded Box International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain (2008), and the Madrid Mirada Exhibition at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain (2008). Additionally, in 2009 participated in Culture, Poverty, and Megapolis, curated by Kevin Power in Santander, Spain. As a digital artist, has been selected in numerous virtual and physical exhibitions, including: FullDome Workshop grant selection, Galileo Galilei Planetarium, BA, Argentina (2015), NFTLiverpool, UK (2022), NFT.NYC, New York, USA (2023), photographic collaboration with LIFE Magazine, NY, USA, MAD Fair, Madrid, Spain (2023), and NFT-Roma, Italy (2023).

Monotypic photographic work exploits the optical and chemical resources of analog art, based on organic developing agents such as wine, seeking the unique and unrepeatable, exhibited in spaces such as the Emiliano Guiñazú Museum of Fine Arts, Mendoza, Argentina, 2005; ECA Contemporary Art Space, Mendoza, Argentina, 2004; Central Bank of Ecuador, Presley Norton Museum, Quito, Ecuador; among others. His philosophical approach to the arts involves various presentations and workshops for professional artists, teenagers, and children in the field of applied philosophy, including the direction of the permanent forum of Emerging Art at the ECA Contemporary Art Museum, Mendoza, Argentina, 2004; Director and coordinator of the theoretical-practical seminar: Signs of Latin American Image-Time, ARCIS University, Valparaíso, Chile, 2007; and Alliance Française, Quito, Ecuador, 2013; his theoretical-practical course focuses on modern forms, introductory to Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical thesis on audiovisual art.

Began visual career as a photographer in 1998 with exhibitions at the ECA Contemporary Art Museum and the Emiliano Guiñazú Museum of Fine Arts, Mendoza, Argentina, selected for the official Vendimia Award 2004-2005. Exhibited works of Coevo & Coloquio series in 2009 at the Emiliano Guiñazú Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, and the Central Bank of Ecuador, acquired as stable heritage of the Presley Norton Museum. In 2010, exhibited a photographic mural commissioned in homage to renowned painter Orlando Pardo at the Emiliano Guiñazú Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina. Collector and user of antique cameras, black and white photographic work is defined as pictorialist – neo-pictorialist monotypic.

Specialized in hybrid forms of documentary cinematography, inaugurated cinematographic career with the Marcelino Botín Foundation Prize/Bursary, Santander, Spain, 2004, for the original idea, assistant direction, camera, and sound of the documentary video art Contagion, exhibited at the Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain, 2005; FRI-ART Contemporary Art Center, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2006; CT Contemporary Art Center, Ticino, Switzerland, 2006; TRIBECA ARCO Expanded Box Fair, Madrid, Spain, 2008; among other international destinations. His first solo short films, Director’s Children, Desiring Machines, and Desert Instance, were acquired in 2009 by the Central Bank of Ecuador, as part of its stable heritage and as representative works of contemporary Latin American video art.