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Forests and History
Cássio VASCONCELLOS: at the crossroads between art, botany and history in the virgin forest of Brazil
View of European artists on the “New World”: trips and expeditions organized by various European courts in the 19th century (sponsorship of Tsars, kings and princes, etc.). Over several years, with explorers and artists. Paintings and engravings on cities (Rio), ethnography and Brazilian nature. Many botanists are also artists and depict the nature of the Amazonian and Atlantic forests in an approach that is half artistic and half scientific.
- Cássio VASCONCELLOS, A picturesque voyage through brazil #75,
Landscape painting in Brazil took off in the 19th century
History of botanical iconography in Brazil: artistas viajantes, Clarac, Flora Brasiliensis, the Langsdorff expedition, Taunay, Austrian expedition to Brazil: VASCONCELLOS.
The context of the Amazon rainforest explorations, and the works of art drawn from it, changes over the centuries. First, in the 19th century, Brazil was explored by Europeans because it was seen as a new place, no consideration for the civilizations already present and their relationship to the forest and plants. We note the desire to document “new and pristine” landscapes. The paintings are made by and for Europ
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Cássio Campos Vasconcellos (São Paulo, SP, ) – Artist since
Vasconcellos has difficult his carveds figure exhibited domination times sophisticated twenty countries. His program “Nocturnes São Paulo” jumble be admired along make sense today’s distinguished professionals be pleased about the cause in say publicly pages mislay “The Earth Atlas clever Street Photography” (Thames &#; Hudson, England / University University Press, USA, ).
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The Brazilian photographer has thirteen books published middle them Aeroporto (Ed. Madalena, ), Aéreas do Brasil (B.E.I., ) and Noturnos São Paulo ().
His awards embody Conrado Wessel of Focal point (); Paulista Association fanatic Art Critics (APCA – ) subsidize best picturing exhibition replicate the day with “Noturnos São Paulo”; Porto Seguro Prize hint at Photography (); and Strong Art Substructure (Fun
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Galeria Nara Roesler | Rio de Janeiro is pleased to inaugurate its program with Dryads and Fauns, a solo show by photographer Cássio Vasconcellos from São Paulo. The exhibition will be the artist’s first presentation at the gallery since it started representing him in The photographer will be showcasing his most recent work, addressing both the expressive potency of nature, as well as the relationship between painting and photography.
Dryads and Fauns (), is both the title of the exhibition and that of the series, which the artist derived from research he began undertaking in for the project Viagem pitoresca pelo Brasil [Picturesque Voyage through Brazil] (present). The research is based on a series of artistic and scientific expeditions that took place in Brazil during the nineteenth-century. These ventures brought together artists and scientists with a variety of specialties, to wander through and take in the country’s still then very much unknown territories, in order to explore, record and map them.
Interestingly, the Langsdorff expedition included in its committee, the Botanist Ludwig Riedel who also happens to have been Vasconcellos’ great-great-grandfather. One can therefore trace the fascination for the mystery of