Dionisio Gonzalez

Dionisio Gonzales is a young photographer from Spain. Even though at first glance his photos might seem like simplistic views of the depicted Brazilian favelas, there is more to them then what meets the eye. Upon these vast setting of spontaneous disorder arise issues of contemporary differences, Not those issues that address mere rhetoric poverty, not just bare depictions of piled up barracks; these are architectural collages of all sorts and kinds. Dream-like growth that spontaneously envisions the contradictions of the present. Buildings that seem set in the wild west, houses that remind of Carlo Rossi, odd hyper-structures that recall the deconstructivism of Gehry or Libeskind, all shamelessly stand side by side. Gonzales magically transforms the poor outskirts of the city into a complex, diverse and visionary place.
The sedimentation of cultural differences seems to catalyze a stratification of architectural diversity: we may see it as paradise, an urbanist as his biggest nightmare.