Lot n° 54
Estimation :
8000 - 12000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 9 750EUR
JONATHAN LASKER (NÉ EN 1948)
In complex Regions, 1998
Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas.
H_31,7 cm L_39,4 cm
Provenance:
- Sperone Westwater gallery, New York
- acquired by the current owner from this gallery
- private collection
Jonathan Lasker
Born in 1948 in Jersey City, Jonathan Lasker studied in New York at the School of Visual
Arts. He continued his studies of visual art at the famous California Institute of Arts, better known as CalArts, located in the suburbs of Los Angeles. In the 1970s, it was the bastion of young conceptual artists, a generation that considered painting dead and that it was at most a naive activity.
Jonathan Lasker, who sees painting as evidence, rebelled against the prevailing conceptualism. Inspired, among others, by two professors, Richard Artschwager and Susan Rothenberg, he breathes new life into painting by introducing an often monochrome texture to basic pictorial elements such as line and colour. This new vocabulary was inspired by minimalist painters such as Frank Stella, Brice Marden, and Robert Ryman.
On canvas, Lasker develops a formal language. There he arranges as superimposed places of tangible marks, distinct from each other, in which he often assembles primary or secondary colours. His colours are vivid, intense and contrasted. They can form a path of flowing lines or, on the contrary, a trace that digs itself into the material creating an accumulation of paint on the edges. This impression of impasto or fluidity creates very different temporalities in the reading of the painting. Controlled and structured, his compositions oscillate between intuition and analysis. Lasker seeks a pictorial system that justifies itself, bringing the viewer to the limit of the instantaneous reflex of identification with figuration.
It is interesting to consider the titles of his paintings; The Boundary of Luck and Evidence, Life without thought, or Illusions of the self. They underline the parallel
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