The study of flight, of birds in particular, recently permitted man to invent machines that we named satellites.
They scan the topography of the earth from the sky to perfect its cartography
and because of them, we now have formal proof of the earth's flatness.
These devices emit intermittent signals that apparently can be heard
when we approach the western abyss, where water meets with fire.
Few are the birds who reminds us of angels
Singing, eunuchs, their melodies over the chasm's edges.
The city reveals that twelve dozens of black ink filled amphoras would have sunk at sea
during the great transportation of the decade,
leaving the shadows of the ambitious floating over the throne.
To the kingdom comes back the abandoned knights
Snoring, exhausted, under the triumphal arcs.
May the Bad Mannered wins
And blessed be the half-wits!
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Triomphes obliques | Ivan Lassère
With the appropriation of icons from the history of painting, and of the imagery created by scientific popularization tools, Ivan Lassère creates images that play with anachronism.This combination invents a kingdom drifting between a fantasized past and a hypothetical future, inviting the observer to search into an undefined space and time.The construction with painting of a virtual space, of a fiction shaped by the artist, is voluntarily approached with an unfinished idea, allowing mistakes and reworking, which will be the marks of its genesis.
Ivan Lassère studied Fine Arts in France, England and Canada. He has worked with several galleries in Bordeaux (France). He moved to Quebec in 2008 where he completed a Masters inVisualArts at UQÀM in December 2010.He currently lives and
works in Montreal.
Ivan Lassère participates in our MAPPE program. This program supports emergent artists with the direction of their artistic careers through providing exhibitions, career management, and further dissemination of their work to the public and throughout the media.
Image:
Quatre cavaliers (detail), mixed media on canvas, 51 x 51 in, 2011
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