<p>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. Lasserre says that his work is shaped by the objects he encounters, and that his work can therefore be be viewed as art by accident rather than by intent. He conceives and constructs objects as physical thought-experiments, mechanical meditations, and as instruments for the shaping of thought processes. His work is the product of a query or conundrum that he attempts to resolve through its translation from mind into matter. He recognizes the kinship that his approach to art shares with that of research science, which also clarifies and postulates through models, and develops through manipulations of the material world. 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 should not ordinarily coexist: war and art, and the lyrical and the macabre. This is the first monograph dedicated to Lasserre's practice.</p>

Maskull Lasserre: Pendulum (French and English Edition)

Arts & Photography

Farquharson, Rachel Anne

History & Criticism

McClure Gallery

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Maskull Lasserre: Pendulum (French and English Edition)