Reviews 19/11/2006
BCN Week Magazine
The world around us is nothing but a product of our imagination. Keeping this in mind, photographer´s Patricio Cassinoni shows Barcelona as a city-in-the-making, marked by the endless construction and re-urbanization projects. His photos show a city of concrete where things have turned upside down, a city that functions against natural law, where human life is minute and insignificant when put side-by-side with the large-scale monumental constructions that are supposed to be the walls in between which human beings have to exist and interact. His work transmits a feeling of instability, of discomfort, and to some extent pessimism, and one can´t help wonder if he is only referring to the urban landscape or to the direction that contemporary culture is taking.
His vision focuses more than anything on the latest urban renewal projects epitomized by the Diagonal Mar and Forum area. He doesn’t, of course, refer to the bustling Raval or picture-perfect Eixample, which was what Barcelona was once conceived to be like and in which most of us live at the moment, and focuses instead on the future. His photos refer to projects that represent the vision that architects and the City Hall have of the future urban landscape, which are only visible at the moment in a small part of the city and where only the upper, chic crust of the Catalan society live. These urban visions still don´t affect the majority of the population, but even so it is a direction in which the city is moving, and that is of a lot of importance in itself.
Fotografias Patricio Cassinoni
Base Elements Gallery
by Malina Lambrache
BCN Week Magazine
The world around us is nothing but a product of our imagination. Keeping this in mind, photographer´s Patricio Cassinoni shows Barcelona as a city-in-the-making, marked by the endless construction and re-urbanization projects. His photos show a city of concrete where things have turned upside down, a city that functions against natural law, where human life is minute and insignificant when put side-by-side with the large-scale monumental constructions that are supposed to be the walls in between which human beings have to exist and interact. His work transmits a feeling of instability, of discomfort, and to some extent pessimism, and one can´t help wonder if he is only referring to the urban landscape or to the direction that contemporary culture is taking.
His vision focuses more than anything on the latest urban renewal projects epitomized by the Diagonal Mar and Forum area. He doesn’t, of course, refer to the bustling Raval or picture-perfect Eixample, which was what Barcelona was once conceived to be like and in which most of us live at the moment, and focuses instead on the future. His photos refer to projects that represent the vision that architects and the City Hall have of the future urban landscape, which are only visible at the moment in a small part of the city and where only the upper, chic crust of the Catalan society live. These urban visions still don´t affect the majority of the population, but even so it is a direction in which the city is moving, and that is of a lot of importance in itself.
Fotografias Patricio Cassinoni
Base Elements Gallery
by Malina Lambrache