Artist Maskull Lasserre Carves Imagined Skeletons into Souvenir


Maskull Lasserre a sculptor who recarves discarded sculptures

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.


Recarving by Maskull Lasserre Colossal Art, 10 Picture, Art Moderne

(Toby Melville/Reuters) Saturday, following a "locals only" day, Dismaland opens to the general public. Previews reveal a bombed out Cinderella's castle, where you'll find a Banksy sculpture of the.


Maskull Lasserre recarves sculptures to reveal their skeletal system

Maskull Lasserre Hells Gate Humpback ~ all images © Maskull Lasserre unless otherwise indicated ~ Lasserre's sculptures and drawings explore the unexpected potential of the everyday through allegories of subject, material, and utility.


Maskull Lasserre Artist Talk Art Gallery of Grande Prairie

January 12, 2024 Grace Ebert "The Third Octave" (2023). All images © Maskull Lasserre, shared with permission Behind the hammers and pins of most upright pianos is a hard mass of spruce, maple, or mahogany, what artist Maskull Lasserre ( previously) refers to as a "secret volume of solid wood."


Fable by Maskull Lasserre Design Miss

In a towering, totem-style sculpture titled "The Garden," Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre ( previously) compresses a collection of 18th-century botanical texts between two parallel planks of Douglas Fir.


Strangeness in the familiar sculptures by Maskull Lasserre toner

Carved chair and axe, 26 x 23 x 37 in. Maskull Lasserre September 1, 2013 by Krystina Mierins Toronto Centre Space Maskull Lasserre creates technically accomplished sculptures that achieve a delicate balance between familiar, everyday objects and fragile, often macabre forms.


Banksy Brings Maskull Lasserre to Dismaland

Maskull Lasserre (Calgary, 1978) spent his formative years in South Africa. He holds a BFA in Visual Art and Philosophy (Mount Allison University), and an MFA (Concordia University). Maskull's exhibitions include Banksy's Dismaland, and Swept Away (Museum of Art and Design, New York). His visiting artist positions include those at the Broad.


maskull lasserre chisels giant tree trunk down to a precariously frayed

Maskull Lasserre Maskull Lasserre , 2020 Arsenal Contemporary Art New York US$15,000 Discover and purchase Maskull Lasserre's artworks, available for sale. Browse our selection of paintings, prints, and sculptures by the artist, and find art you love.


Artist Maskull Lasserre Carves Imagined Skeletons into Souvenir

Artist Maskull Lasserre is known for his inventive installations that "induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in the expected." For Schrodinger's Wood, a suspended tree sculpture, Lasserre has expertly carved a large and lumbering tree trunk into a delicately detailed piece of frayed rope.


Maskull Lasserre Canadian art, Conceptual art, Environmental artwork

Maskull Lasserre was artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute in 2014-2015. Lasserre came to Broad via Canada, where his work is represented in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Government of Canada, and the Royal Bank.


Maskull Lasserre Wood Carving Art, Wood Art, Steampunk Robots, Junk Art

Safe and steel, 1.45 m x 1.01 m x 1.01 m. Maskull Lasserre, Overture (detail), 2013. Steel, hydraulic cylinder, hardware, violin and bow, 1.93 m x 106 cm x 95 cm. by Bryne McLaughlin In March 2010, Montreal artist Maskull Lasserre travelled to Kandahar province in Afghanistan as part of the Canadian Forces Artists Program.


Maskull Lasserre Exhibit Opens January 12th Art Gallery of Grande Prairie

Maskull Lasserre is a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1978. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York (Bowery) have featured Maskull Lasserre's work in the past.


Maskull Lasserre On Knockout Sculptures, Dangerous Artworks, Boxing as

Maskull Lasserre is the Mike Tyson of the Canadian art scene: a soft-voiced killer with an unstoppable left-right combination. On one hand, he seems like the sweetest, most unassuming person you're ever likely to meet. On the other, he's the maker of spellbinding, disturbing objects of steel, wood, bronze and stone, powerful ciphers for our.


Maskull Lasserre recarves sculptures to reveal their skeletal system

Maskull Lasserre PORTFOLIO > Outliers (Collection of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec) Outliers (Trace) (continuing 2012; Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, New York) Animal tracks are reproduced onto the soles of shoes that are worn to leave prints in urban areas, presented here at Articule, Montreal, QC.


Maskull Lasserre recarves sculptures to reveal their skeletal system

Maskull Lasserre has brought new life, or death in this case, to old computer manuals with his amazingly intricate sculpture of a human skull. Lasserre's work explores "the unexpected potential of the everyday through allegories of value, expectation, and utility."


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Maskull Lasserre . Home; PORTFOLIO. Third Octave; a study of eighths with mathematical biology and speculative realist texts as shims. Carving as a redistribution of consciousness. Abscissa and Ordinate ; Below What Work of Dirt Does Not Struggle Starlight? A small excavated poem.

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