Mario Cascardo
Mario Cascardo is a researcher and artist based in Rio de Janeiro and holds a PhD in Visual Arts from the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais da Escola de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro. In 2022, he completed a doctorate thesis on the dialogue between Vilém Flusser and Samson Flexor and released the movie “Diálogo” (31', Arquivo Vilém Flusser SP). Cascardo is also a videographer and music composer with several works released in the last 15 years, including eps, albums, soundtracks, videoclips and short movies. Since 2023, he is a collaborator in the Laboratório de Estudos da Imagem e do Imaginário of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Labim-UERJ).
Articles of Mario Cascardo
Gesto das Pedras: da fenomenologia flusseriana às coisas de Wanda Pimentel
This essay explores the enigma of gestures through the works of Vilém Flusser and the Brazilian painter Wanda Pimentel by starting from the paradoxical assumption that a rock can perform a gesture. Some paintings from Pimentel’s series Envolvimentos (Entanglements) and Montanhas do Rio (Mountains of Rio) reveal a sort of ambiguous expressiveness of legs, rocks, windows, clothes, and other objects. They seem to be endowed with that which Flusser called the “artificiality” of gestures.
