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Aldo Sessa
Argentina, 1939
Person TypeIndividual
Argentina, 1920 - 2014
BiographyBorn in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1939, he started his long career of creative work in drawing and painting at the "De Ridder" Atelier at the age of 10; he later specialized in graphic arts, graphic design, audiovisual techniques and photography. His works are included in private collections and in museums in Argentina and around the world. In 1976, the Argentine government honored his painting entitled "Before the Beginning" (a 6 x 2 meter tryptic) by selecting it for donation to the United States government on the occasion of the U.S. Bicentennial, for permanent exhibition in the Lyndon Johnson Space Center of NASA in Houston, Texas. Another tryptic, "Creation of the Universe" (5.10 x 2.10 meters), was donated to the Galileo Galilei Planetarium of the City of Buenos Aires in 1978. In 1980, his painting "Humorum" (2.40 x 1.60 meters) was selected for the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. In 1989 Sessa held a retrospective exhibition in the National Museum of Fine Arts, entitled "The Art of Photography". This show was taken to Villa Victoria, Mar del Plata, Argentina, and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile. In 1992, he was invited by the Israeli government to tour their country, and in 1994, he organized an itinerant show of the photographs, entitled "A Hundred Snap-shots of Israel". In 1994, he set up a megaexhibition entitled "The Argentines", 400 portraits of celebrities, which drew 250,000 visitors to the Palais de Glace Museum in Buenos Aires. He was named Honorary Member of the Argentine Federation of Photography, Member of the National Academy of Fine Arts.He collects antique cameras and photographs. He has performed more than 250 exhibitions and published 40 art books.