Francisco Vasconcelos is a Portuguese photographer based in Berlin.
Influenced by the Multiverse theory his works opens us the door to an intense journey through ones mind by over-exposing layers of our surroundings and unraveling an unique vision of the world.
Note that no Photoshop is used in any of his pictures.
Directed by Isabela Falcão Vaz
Artist: Francisco Vasconcelos and csxlab.org
Music: Pedro Ferraz and Orlando Rocha
Multiverse paintings: Francisco & Isabela
Biography:
Francisco c.p. Vasconcelos (*1978 in Porto) is an architect and photographer. He studied architecture and phenomenology and currently works at csxlab.org as well as BIM manager at the office NN - Arquitectura e Planeamento in Porto, Portugal. He has won several photography awards and has international exhibitions in his portfolio. He continuously works on research devoted to issues in architecture and phenomenology. Following his photographic project Multiverse, Francisco has lived, worked, researched and experienced cultural forms of “reality” in Greece, the Netherlands, Germany and Japan.
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Matter, architecture and drift.
[Some notes around a photographic series by Francisco Vasconcelos]
"This is the image outside the time and space he wanted now, he was not sure how that would be achieved, but he was determined to succeed"
Italo Calvino, I Racconti
In a tale he called "The Adventure of a Photographer," Calvino describes the fictional account of an artist he dubbed a philosopher-skeptic, a character who is confronted with the popularity, meaning, and purpose of the photographic medium. The obsessive desire to portray everyday life realizes that the object of desire for its lens rests, in the end, on the disappearance of that same object. That is, we never position ourselves in the "real" presence of the photographed object, because between reality and the image there is an ontological impossibility that is determined by the construction of representation and art.
It is here that, I believe, we can verify the series of photographic works of Francisco Vasconcelos that he called decisively Multiverse. In fact, the concept of the meta-universe proposed by physics as a hypothetical set of multiple chained universes characterized by the notion of space, time, matter, and energy, as well as the laws of physics and their variants, delimit an arc program in Vasconcelos' work that seems to redirect the look of a photographic project that presents itself through a double proposition: on the one hand, to question the medium of photography still as a solid and effusive testimony of the fabric of Euclidean reality in its understanding of the form and of apparent space, in an oscillating ideology between presence and absence; On the other hand, and here his work is poignant, using the simple technique of multiple exposure opens the way to a number of possibilities from which he aspires to "create" new forms and visions of the truth and consistency of what the lens can not fail to capture. It is as if Vasconcelos was rescued from the very record of photography - and therefore from the freezing of things that he sees and experiences - the possibility of this becoming a double origin, instituting a set of images that define an assumed position in which the reality that surrounding us can be measured in its completeness. For this, the artist presents a series of works in which he defines multiple points of view, kaleidoscopic visions of the world (we see water, trees, buildings, asphalt) that interconnect in an intermediate sense, something between the real and the fractal, always showing visions the natural and human presence through the construction in architecture where the delimitation and the contour of the objects are reconstructed from their arbitrary existence, points of composition and pressure that Vasconcelos balances with rigor and a work of intense production. Paradoxically, it is with the possibility of double exposure and discontinuity of this initial matrix that this series of photographs intends to reconstitute an original flow that has been used in the world, giving us, as observers, a shattered vision, but because it is chipped, inventive, restoring the act of seeing, or as Walter Benjamin correctly wrote: "achieving purity of look is not difficult, it is impossible."
by HUGO BARATAVISUAL ARTIST / CURATORIAL PROJECTS / CULTURAL MEDIATOR
Timeline
01-09-2021 / Present. : Raul Sousa Cardoso Arquitectura, Marco de Canavezes
01-12-2019 / 01-08-2021: NN - Arquitectura e Planeamento, Porto
01-01-2014 / 30-11-2019: Architect & Photographer Freelance | csxlab.org, Berlin (Germany)
01-04-2017 / 30-10-2019: AKP - Architekten Kauschke und Partner Berlin
Principal Architect and Archicad / BIM Instructor
2019 - Bärensteinstr., Berlin | Centro Clinico e Residencial para Idosos
2019 - Märkische Allee, Berlin | Centro Comercial e Hotel 2018 Lieberenz Event
Hotel Wolfstein
2018 - Shurgard Self- Storage Flottenstraße, Berlin
2018 - Shurgard Self- Storage Wandsbeck, Hamburg
2017 - Shurgard Self- Storage Nalepastraße, Berlin
01-01-2011 / 30-11-2014: Architect & Photographer Freelance | csxlab.org, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
01-09-2009 / 28-01-2010: Kiyokazu Arai Architects, Tokyo (Japan)
- Wind Kenchiku competition
- Seniour housing competition, Novato California
- Expo 2012 Yeosu, South Korea Pavillion Competition
21-05-2009 / 26-08-2009: Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo (Japan)
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (concept, model making, 3D Model & Viz)
- Making Architecture (Publication directed by Toyo Ito)
- House K, Tokyo, Japan
- House T, Tokyo, Japan
- JWEST Hotel Project, Tainan, Taiwan
- Gondwana Circle Competition, S.F., USA
01-10-2006 / 01-08-2007: Architectural Theory Research, Thessaloniki - Hellas
01-10-2005 / 21-05-2009: Foundation of csxlab.org
Freelance photographer, Porto
01-10-2003 / 01-08-2008: Freelance 3D & CGI, Porto
01-10-2002 / 01-08-2005: V.J. - Monkeyville Collective, Porto
- Resident VJ’s at Bazaar Club, Porto
Solo Exhibitions
2017
-"Multiverse" & "Praha Visionscopes" at Noize Fabrik - Berlin, Deutschland
-"Multiverse" at Cooperativa Árvore - Porto, Portugal
2015
- Unterdeck at (A)VOID Gallery Praha, Czeck Republic
Group Exhibitions
2023
-"Leixões" em Porto ao Porto - FAA Galeria, Porto
2018
-"Multiverse" - Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin Odyssee 2017/18
2017
-What makes you ___? Club der Republik - Berlin, Deutschland
2016
-PORTO ART FEST - Porto, Portugal
-”Earth Line” - Exposição Colectiva dos Sócios da Copperativa Árvore no Museu Nacional
Soares dos Reis - Porto, Portugal
2015
-”Black Light - MaxDurante” Video- Greenhouse goes Upper Ground, Berlin
2013
-International Meeting on Multimedia and Photography
( Francisco + Elena Raupova), Coimbra
Awards
-2016, Porto ART FEST - Photography Award
-2009, Inov.ART - Internship for research in the fields of Architecture & Phenomenology in
Tokyo, Japan
Publications
-2021, Detail.de - #30 A Passion for Collecting: Francisco Vasconcelos on his collection of issues of Detail (Interview)
-2016, DJ Mag Itália - Interview with Max Durante (Photographs)
-2009, DAMMnº22 - Sou fujimoto article by Cathelijne Nuijsink (Photographs)
-2009, Bueprint UK Nº287 - Sou fujimoto article by Cathelijne Nuijsink (Photographs)
Works List
Event Photography 2005-2020
2020
2020-11-15 | Nato Kids (Escola de Dança)
2019
2019-03-01 | MNGRM Live, Rummeslsbucht Berlin (De)
2019-12-21 | Companhia de Dança Renato & Ligia
2018
2018-02-09 | Collapsed universe (De)
2018-03-23 | Way to Wonderland (De)
2018-04-12 | Shortcutz (De)
2018-06-15 | Forrest Explosion (De)
2018-07-07 | Stolz und Demut
2018-07-12 | 24th Antaris Project
2018-08-04 | Stolz & Demut
2018-09-01 | Stolz & Demut III
2018-09-08 | Wem gehört die Stadt?
2018-12-01 | 20Jahre OV Silence (de)
2017
2017-01-01 | B-Painted at Odyssee 2017 (De)
2017-01-14 | Lisa Sparreboom (De)
2017-02-02 | Captain (De)
2017-03-10 | Progressive Calling
2017-03-24 | What makes you ____ ? (De)
2017-04-14 | Interstellar (De)
2017-05-26 | Fledermausland (De)
2017-06-04 | kdk Berlin 2017 (De)
2017-08-01 | spielwiese (De)
2017-08-12 | Humpty-Dumpy 2017 (de)
2017-09-30 | Rummelsbucht (De)
2017-10-07 | Spirited Away (De)
2017-10-17 | Octoblast (De)
2017-10-21 | D2 Yaam (De)
2017-12-01 | Seven Chakras (De)
2017-12-02 | Apokalipstik (De)
2016
2016-01-08 | Popol Vuh (De)
2016-01-20 | Phonograph at Farbfernseher (de)
2016-01-28 | Alexandro Duran
2016-01-29 | Jana Photoshoot
2016-01-29 | The Pack - Max Durante (De)
2016-01-29 | Wo_Land at ACUD (De)
2016-02-05 | IONO 10Y (De)
2016-02-10 | Movie Meets Media (de)
2016-02-13 | Day Experience 13 (De)
2016-02-25 | GH Jazz Jam Session (De)
2016-03-04 | Panta Rhei nº2
2016-03-12 | Signs II
2016-03-14 | Bonobo Jam (De)
2016-03-16 | Nina AKANina
2016-03-20 | Progressive Calling
2016-03-26 | Contact by Sunday RP
2016-03-27 | Sunday Dance (De)
2016-04-02 | Orbital Exp Bday Psy Bash (De)
2016-04-09 | Life Celebration Festival Teaser Berlin
2016-04-16 | Frühlingszaubertraum (De)
2016-04-24 | Glück Im Ohr (De)
2016-04-29 | Hexentanz (De)
2016-05-06 | IOVAN Geburtstag in Juice HH (De)
2016-05-07 | Mamas Orbital PsyBash
2016-05-14 | KdK 2016 - essentiaXperience (Hippieschaukel) (De)
2016-06-02 | Psychedelic circus Ope Air 2016 (De)
2016-06-23 | Proggy at Magdalena (De)
2016-07-15 | Antaris Projekt (De)
2016-07-29 | Max at Krake (De)
2016-08-00 | Freqs of Nature 2016 (De)
2016-08-02 | Down The Rabbit Hole with Butch & Skream (De)
2016-08-13 | Levitation Elements (De)
2016-08-20 | New Healing Festival (De)
2016-08-21 | Humpty Dumpty OA (de)
2016-09-23 | Fick Shui at GreenHouse (De)
2016-10-01 | Intact Expanda (De)
2016-10-22 | The New Vibe at mBia (De)
2016-10-28 | Progressive Calling III
2016-11-03 | Wir Sind Heimat! by Fick Shui (De)
2016-11-11 | Camakavum 2016 (De)
2016-11-12 | FULL MOON Cabaret (De)
2016-12-07 | Radius 2 presentation at OYE (De)
2016-12-21 | 15 Years Souls Of Fire (Pt)
2015
2015-01-10 | Day Experience 8 (de)
2015-01-18 | Progressive Calling RAW
2015-01-24 | Sayakadelika (De)
2015-02-14 | Warp 13
2015-02-25 | New Faces at Tresor berlin (De)
2015-03-07 | Camakavum (De)
2015-03-14 | Platteau Rolling Disco (De)
2015-03-20 | Che Alex (De)
2015-03-27 | Progma BDay Bash (De)
2015-04-04 | Birthday PsyBash (De)
2015-04-15 | Nica Iliuchina at Tempelhof (De)
2015-05-02 | Sunday Rotation (De)
2015-05-09 | Mamas Psyco Electro Mutterstag (De)
2015-05-31 | Day Experience 9 (De)
2015-06-27 | Day Experience 10 (De)
2015-07-07 | Techno Workshop R19 (De)
2015-07-10 | Orange Sun Open Air (De)
2015-07-25 | Bonobo Flash Jam (De)
2015-07-25 | SUMMER DANCE OF ELEMENTS (De)
2015-08-07 | Day Experience 11(De)
2015-09-03 | Music Meets Media (De)
2015-09-26 | Atra Scientia @Yaam (De)
2015-09-29 | Nica Iliuchina @Home (De)
2015-10-05 | Max Durante
2015-10-10 | Illuminania (De)
2015-10-17 | Camakavum (De)
2015-10-20 | Psy - London (En)
2015-10-30 | Progressive Calling 2 Years Celbration
2015-12-09 | Orbital Keller Christmas (De)
2015-12-12 | GreenHhouse Band (de)
2015-12-27 | GreenHouse Open Door Days (De)
2015-12-31 | Odyssey 2015-16 (De)
2014
2014-01-14 | Stop Studio Sessions Souls Of Fire (Pt)
2014-01-19 | Octopussy Armazém do Chá (Pt)
2014-01-24 | Vigo Crew Jam Sessions Souls Of Fire (Es)
2014-02-01 | Su B-day (Pt)
2014-03-02 | Glunderdome (NL)
2014-02-16 | Vigo no Porto Souls Of Fire
2014-03-15 | ZKU Experimental (De)
2014-03-16 | Egorythmia Area61
2014-04-06 | Orbital Experiences Berlin (De)
2014-04-19 | Yaam - Juggle Ina East (De)
2014-05-05 | 5th Of May Psy-Wageningen (NL)
2014-08-02 | Talamasca at Psychedelic Theatre (De)
2014-10-11 | Planet Illuminania (De)
2014-12-07 | Bonobo Burlesque (De)
2014-12-20 | Klopfgeister R19 (De)
2014-12-21 | Stratos XBerg (De)
2014-12-30 | Youth Culture SoundSystem at Griffons (Pt)
2013
2013-02-03 | Ganja Tree Köln (De)
2013-02-24 | Save our souls (De)
2013-03-10 | Fela Kuti Tribute (Pt)
2013-03-31 | Köln (De)
2013-03-22 | Jungle at Muziek Maastricht (NL)
2013-04-01 | Luna Club Wuppertal (De)
2013-04-13 | Tribes Gathering Belgium (Be)
2013-04-20 | LBB Floorwarts (NL)
2013-04-29 | Lexi in the sky with diamonds (NL)
2013-05-05 | Liberation Day Wageningen (NL)
2013-05-19 | SunSplash Koln (De)
2013-06-15 | Köln Luna Club (De)
2013-06-23 | Live & Let Psy 2013 (NL)
2013-08-04 | Free Party Valongo (Pt)
2013-08-17 | Octopussy Crew (Pt)
2013-08-22 | Cabeça de GPS (Pt)
2013-09-27 | Sandrine B-Day (Pt)
2013-10-06 | Maus Habitos (Pt)
2013-10-08 | Papangu (Pt)
2013-10-19 | Volle Maan (NL)
2013-10-26 | Shangri La Amsterdam (NL)
2013-11-24 | Mahareta Label at Pand14 Amsterdam (NL)
2013-12-13 | Digital Meltdown NL
2013-12-28 | Psy Hard Club (Pt)
2012
2012-07-26 | BOOM Festival (Pt)
2011
2011-01-20 | Hypnotic Dreams III - samaveda (Pt)
2011-01-28 | Romano B (Pt)
2011-01-30 | Centeno
2011-02-05 | Plano b (Pt)
2011-02-14 | Universoul Industria Porto (Pt)
2011-03-05 | Marc Hype
2011-03-08 | Baile Tranquilo
2011-03-26 | Pow Pow
2011-04-01 | Plano B
2011-04-02 | Clubbing Casa da Musica (Pt)
2011-04-09 | Zona 6 (Pt)
2011-04-16 | Grandmaster Flash
2011-04-19 | LP RATUS + ROMANO
2011-04-24 | Negralha vs BNegão
2011-04-30 | Joao Brasil
2011-05-07 | Queima das Fitas Coimbra
2014-05-25 | Marcelo D2 TSB
2011-08-13 | Romano Contagiarte (Pt)
2011-08-31 | Romano Altar (Pt)
2010
2010-03-14 | Aniversário 1ª Linha
2010-03-28 | Souls Of Fire Clérigos
2010-05-02 | Souls Of Fire Queima das Fitas, Porto
2010-05-02 | Alta Baixa
2010-05-29 | BB King (Pt)
2010-06-10 | Fitei MTS (Pt)
2010-10-04 | Mala at Gare (Pt)
2010-10-05 | Plano B McFerrin
2010-10-16 | Reggae Nation III
2010-10-31 | Alta Baixa 2
2010-11-13 | DUB INC
2010-11-20 | Skatalites
2010-11-20 | Porto Japan week (Pt)
2010-11-23 | Ritchie Campbell
2010-11-27 | Beat Torrent
2010-12-24 | Industria Baile Tranquilo
2009
2009-07-04 | Zen Mechanics by Solstice japan (Jp)
2008
2008-03-01 | Ibla RatusFarai (Pt)
2008-03-08 | Psy Porto Rio (Pt)
2008-03-09 | Espinho Souls Of Fire
2008-05-13 | Nuno Forte na Gare (Pt)
2008-05-16 | Souls of Fire (Pt)
2008-05-16 | Senhor de Matosinhos Souls Of Fire)
2008-05-17 | Pow Pow
2008-06-14 | Neverland Beach Party (Gr)
2008-08-03 | Herbie Hancook (Pt)
2008-08-16 | Viana do Castelo Souls Of Fire
2008-08-16 | Drum and Bass alfandega (Pt)
2007
2007-01-07 | Snowboy
2007-01-12 | Nuno Forte + Dinis
2007-01-19 | Rui Vargas
2007-01-20 | Headman
2007-01-27 | Back2Future Plano B (Pt)
2007-03-30 | Nuno Forte + HiFidel Cartel
2007-05-17 | Senhor de Matosinhos Souls Of Fire
2007-05-20 | Quinta de Santiago LP (Pt)
2007-08-19 | Souls of Fire
2007-09-16 | pitch
2007-10-20 | Direct Connection. (Gr)
2007-12-02 | Infinite Livez Casa da musica (Pt)
2006
2006-09-23 | Greg Wilson (Pt)
2006-10-05 | D-Nox Porto Rio (Pt)
2006-10-06 | Back2Future
2006-10-07 | Bazaar (Pt)
2006-10-08 | Industria Club
2006-10-08 | Asian Dub Foundation (Pt)
2006-10-13 | Jacksen + Kaspar
2006-10-14 | iDuna (Pt)
2006-10-14 | Idjut Boys
2006-10-20 | Nuno Forte + Dinis
2006-10-22 | Wunmi Industria (Pt)
2006-10-27 | Jacksen + Miguel Amaro
2006-10-28 | James Trouble
2006-10-28 | PSP Porto Rio (Pt)
2006-10-28 | Estado Novo Souls Of Fire)
2006-11-01 | Sister Nancy (KINGSTON JAMAICA) 31_10_2006 (Pt)
2006-11-03 | Nuno Forte Porto Rio (Pt)
2006-11-03 | Nuno Mendes Bazaar (Pt)
2006-11-04 | Groove Armada (Pt)
2006-11-10 | Rui Murca
2006-11-11 | Tim Sweeney
2006-11-24 | Eric Duncan
2006-11-25 | Maurice Fulton
2006-11-25 | Psy-Porto Rio (Pt)
2006-11-30 | Dancing Days
2006-12-01 | Video Clip Souls Of Fire
2006-12-01 | Mario Porto Rio (Pt)
2006-12-01 | Back2Future
2006-12-02 | Cari+Marcos
2006-12-02 | Ed Rush (Pt)
2006-12-07 | PSP Porto Rio (Pt)
2006-12-09 | Horace Andy (Pt)
2006-12-09 | ICUBE
2006-12-14 | Inverse Cinematics
2006-12-15 | Centeno_Bar-Tenreiro_club
2006-12-16 | mr.cheeks
2006-12-17 | Youth Culture no Marés do Aterro (Pt)
2006-12-31 | Pitch New Year
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Original Portuguese:
Matéria, arquitectura e deriva.
[Algumas notas em torno de uma série fotográfica de Francisco Vasconcelos]
«Este é o retrato fora do tempo e do espaço que ele agora desejava; ele não estava certo como seria alcançado, mas estava determinado a ter sucesso»
Italo Calvino, I Racconti
Num conto a que chamou “A Aventura de um Fotógrafo”, Calvino descreve o relato ficcional de um artista que apelidou de filósofo-cético, personagem que se confronta com a popularidade, o significado e o propósito do meio fotográfico e que, através de uma vontade obsessiva de retratar o quotidiano, se apercebe que o objeto de desejo da sua lente assenta, no fundo, no desaparecimento desse mesmo objeto. Isto é, nunca nos posicionamos na presença “real” do objeto fotografado porque entre a realidade e uma sua imagem existe uma impossibilidade ontológica que se determina pela construção da representação e da arte.
É aqui que, penso, podemos consubstanciar a série de obras fotográficas de Francisco Vasconcelos a que chamou determinantemente de Multiverso. De facto, o conceito de meta-universo proposto pela física como um conjunto hipotético de universos múltiplos encadeados e caracterizados por conterem em si mesmos as noções de espaço, tempo, matéria e energia, assim como as leis da física e as suas variantes, delimita um arco programático no trabalho de Vasconcelos que parece redirecionar o olhar a partir de um projeto fotográfico que se apresenta através de uma dupla proposição: por um lado, questionando o meio da fotografia ainda como testemunho sólido e delineador do tecido da realidade euclidiana na sua compreensão da forma e do espaço aparente, numa ideologia oscilante entre presença e ausência; por outro lado, e aqui o seu trabalho se revela pungente, ao utilizar a técnica simples da múltipla exposição abre caminho a uma série de possibilidades a partir das quais ambiciona “criar” novas formas e visões da veracidade e da consistência daquilo que a lente não pode deixar de captar. É como se Vasconcelos resgatasse do próprio registo da fotografia - e como tal do congelamento das coisas que vê e experiencia - a possibilidade desta se tornar uma dupla origem, instituindo um conjunto de imagens que definem uma postura assumida na qual a realidade que nos circunda não pode ser aferida na sua completude. Para isso, o artista apresenta uma série de trabalhos nos quais define múltiplos pontos de vista, visões caleidoscópicas do mundo (vemos água, árvores, edifícios, asfalto) que se interligam num sentido intermédio, algo entre o real e o fractal, mostrando sempre visões do natural e da presença humana através da construção em arquitectura onde o delimite e contorno dos objetos são reconstruídos a partir da sua existência arbitrária, de pontos composicionais e de pressão que Vasconcelos equilibra com rigor e com um trabalho de produção aturado. Paradoxalmente é com a possibilidade da dupla exposição e da descontinuação dessa matriz inicial que esta série de fotografias pretende reconstituir um fluxo originário que se ferra no mundo, aportando-nos, a nós observadores, uma visão estilhaçada, mas porque estilhaçada, inventiva, diligente e reconstituinte do ato de Ver, ou como acertadamente escreveu Walter Benjamin: «o chegar à pureza do olhar não é difícil, é impossível».
por HUGO BARATA
VISUAL ARTIST / CURATORIAL PROJECTS / CULTURAL MEDIATOR
FORMAÇÃO:
2008-11 MESTRADO EM ARQUITECTURA - ULP
“The Architect as Artisan of Matter.”
Uma abordagem Ética do uso da matéria em Arquitectura sob uma perspectiva Fenomenológica.
2009 ARCHITECTURE + PHENOMENOLOGY, KYOTO 2009
Call to Papers on Architecture and Phenomenology at Kyoto Seika University 2009 - 1 Week Presentation and Discussion