Juan Carlos Lasser

1952 - 2007

Argentine artist, born in Darregueira, Buenos Aires Province. He studied at MEEBA (Association of Students and Graduates in Fine Arts).  He presented over 450 exhibitions -group and solo- in Argentine and abroad.  He was awarded with more than forty prizes in Argentina.

He was Director of Assembling and Director of Art in different installations and artistic participant works.  He acted as Juror in more than 60 opportunities.  In Argentina and abroad , many critics wrote about him in different newspapers, Fine Arts magazines and books.  His works are represented in Museums, Foundations and Collections in Argentina, Mexico, USA, Greece, France, Germany, Korea, Spain, Russian and Belgium.

Juan Carlos Lasser's art is highly self-extracting.  His artistic identity, developed over more than thirty years of work, places him within both subjetive and expressive abstractionism.

Lasser's self criticism is also evidenced in the evolution of his painting.  He has followed a consistent path, taking risks with every change, without disregarding the dictates of his personal search.  In this respect, it should be noted that he has made no concessions of any kind.

Juan Carlos Lasser    2006 Argentina Juan Carlos Lasser Darregueira Serigrafía 54 X 44 cm

Fermín Fèvre.

"An idea that I have been developing over the last few years is the one about constructing and recreating an individual landscape, an inner landscape that arises from life experiences,  emotions and experiential encounters both with the nature as well as with the urban landscape.  Therefore this encounter refers to the relation between man and the natural word, to its unpleasantness.  And it so happens that in some works, one world or the other prevails.

The straight lines, the constructions, the directions and certain order, expose the transformations of which man is capable of undertaking, sometimes attacking nature, some others producing great beauty with his ability to create.

The great natural rhythms and their constant mutations are exposed in contrasting fields in which a series of violent clashes, like the Cosmos itself, fracturs the landscapes and splits the images.  The color, at times high and luminous and at others saturated to the maximun, is simultaneuosly an emissary of the world of the artist as well as a provoking element of possible and renewed readings through the personal experience of the viewer.

The possibilities that oil offers to produce, when correctly treated, an ample registry of transparencies wich are similar to those that can be reached with watercolor, allowing for subtle atmospheres to pierce through, such as the ones that evoke the gentleness and perfection of certain outstanding experiences.  At the same time and in contrast, there are opaque and densely charged areas, vigiriusly defined situations in the pictorial field, which accentuate the implacable force, some times that of nature, other times that of man." 

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