Cassio vasconcellos biography

Life and work Vasconcellos was born in São Paulo, Brazil.
Cássio Vasconcellos is a Brazilian photographer.
Born in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, in 1965, Cássio Vasconcellos studied photography at the Imagem-Ação (1981).

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The series “Collectives” reveals a contemporary look of life stories from a globalized world seen through mosaics of constructed images. The observer is faced with large panels of aerial photos if seen from afar appear to be textures or geometric forms that if inspected closely, surprise the viewer with a richness of details that compose a daily urban lifestyle in consumption patterns.

The work on view reveals the enormous quantity of products and lands that humans beings use for living on our planet. All the images, made of hundreds of different pictures that together create imaginary landscapes, depicts the reality featuring huge areas that humanity needs each time more to aim all steps of the consumption chain. VERDE exhibit the big demand for food showing large areas used for plantations and CEASA presents the complex operation to distribute the food. Our society produces immeasurable quantity of disposals and ARIZONA shows us an unbelievable boneyard composed of old aircrafts. The work COLETIVOrepresents a nightmare scene of what it’s happening in all big cities in the world

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cássio vasconcellos

Cássio Vasconcellos (b. 1965, São Paulo, Brazil) began his career as a photographer at the beginning of the 1980s. Though he previously gathered extensive experience as a photojournalist, his artistic work is characterized by fictional imagery, which he derives from elements of reality. His work blurs the boundaries of photography as a genre, creating, instead, an imaginary iconographic vocabulary geared towards a critique of contemporary society. Notably, the artist’s use of aerial photography allows for the manipulation of scale and image, which he uses to challenge the viewer’s perception of reality. Vasconcellos has published several monographs of his work, including Brasil visto do céu [Brazil seen from the sky], Editora Brasileira, 2017; Panorâmicas, DBA, 2012 and Noturnos São Paulo [Nocturnes São Paulo], 2002.

Cássio Vasconcellos’ photography highlights our society’s excessive consumerism, the abundance of products that flood our everyday-life, the uniformit

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