PALMS
About Cássio Vasconcellos
Cássio has been a photographer since 1981 and has had his images exhibited over 200 times in twenty countries. Some of his recent exhibitions are “Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 2017); and “Collectives”, Today Art Museum (TAM), Beijing (2013).
Cássio’s photographs are in Brazil’s main private collections as well in museums such as the MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil), and abroad in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, France) and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH, Houston, US)
Deep in the tropics
In the early 19th century, the European fascination with South America produced a spate of dense, mesmerising landscape paintings. Rooted in this visual history, Palms reclaims the tropics as a site of mystical beauty. The photographs are at once a precise botanical study and a lush evocation of tropical atmosphere
