Maskull Lasserre
March - Sept, 2023
Maskull Lasserre
This spring, Arsenal art contemporain is delighted to welcome Maskull Lasserre until October 2023. He will take part in the NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) fair in September.
About
Maskull Lasserre's sculptures explore the unexpected potential of the everyday through associations of risk and seduction. Elements of nostalgia, allegory, humor and the macabre are incorporated into his works, which induce strangeness in the familiar and provoke uncertainty in the expected. The artist conceives and constructs objects as physical thought-experiments, mechanical meditations and instruments for shaping thought processes. His work is the product of a query or conundrum that he attempts to resolve through its translation from mind into matter. Lasserre's work is subtly autobiographical. From his childhood in Africa, to experience as a musician, boxer and war artist, he conflates, with uncomfortable elegance, things which ordinarily coexist: war and art, the lyrical and the macabre.
Born in 1978 in Canada, Lasserre spent part of his formative years in South Africa before returning to Canada. He holds a BFA in Visual Art and Philosophy from Mount Allison University (Sackville, New Brunswick) and a MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). Lasserre's work has been exhibited in numerous institutions like the Museum of Art and Design in New York (New York, United States) and is represented in collections in Canada and internationally.
To know more about his work, read his interview