cassio vasconcelos
 intervention
 location
 critical text
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 artist statement
 urban situation
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 interventions
 arte/cidade - zona leste
 
arte/cidade
 


The panoramic is one of the most achieved forms of panoptic vision. Being able to see everything.

Today, encompassing vision evidences the problematic of apprehending the great dimensions of metropolitan landscapes.

The gaze only registers scenes of limited reach, circumscribed by obstacles, directed by immediate experience. It cannot extend itself over the horizon.

It is not by chance that the aerial pictures of São Paulo east region, made by the same photographer for the project’s catalogue, bring surfaces covered with zinc roofs and cut by train tracks and expressways. An endless ocean, practically indiscernible.

Cassio Vasconcellos works with fragments of a panoramic view. They must be placed at different distances, developed in different sizes. From one point of view only they constitute the ensemble. Scale is the question presented here.

But each frame can also be observed separately. The suggestion is given: today observation of the city imagetic register implies work. The image does not give itself anymore to contemplation, but constitutes an analytical material. It can be electronically manipulated, be associated with the data, inserted in devices of location and research.

When new procedures of remote sensing and GIS place as central the question reading data, Cassio Vasconcellos decomposes the structure of the panoramic perspective, the basic form of the photographic image of urban landscape.

Will satellite pictures be able _ with its regional reach, capable of zooms each time more accurate of the urban territory _ in allowing to a bigger apprehension of its configuration and dynamics?