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- Enseada
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- Carnaval
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- Praia do Peba, Alagoas
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- Piscina/USP
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- Rodovia dos Imigrantes
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- Ponte Rio-Niterói
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- Rodovia dos Imigrante #2
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- Rio Tietê
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- Campo dos Goitacazes
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- Marataízes, Espírito Santo
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- Dunas do Rosado, Rio Grande do Norte
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- Salino de Grossos, Rio Grande do Norte
About Aerials #2
In Aéreas #2 (2007-2014) what guides the lenses of this self-proclaimed “air junkie” is his passion for art. Instead of the bird’s-eye view of Aéreas #1, here Vasconcellos’ works with the right angle of a helicopter view. He frames a sunny beach mushroomed with colorful umbrellas; a busy highway diagonally cutting the Mata Atlantica forest; the Rio-Niteroi bridge over Guanabara bay in contrast with the silver-grey texture of the rippled sea below; a samba school in Carnival with its joyful group like neat yellow dots over the asphalt; the bottom of a public swimming pool transformed into a gigantic geometric Concrete art canvas…
Cynthia Garcia
Art Historian / Art Critic
