Introduction

Painter and sculptor, François Lassere “ soul seeker ” defines himself above all as a plural artist, which makes him so unique. While most of his colleagues identify themselves through their own style and technique, the hallmark of their creations, his work is anything but monolithic and academic. He stands out by mixing, on his canvases, different elements (a porcelain from the Louvre with a broken pot) , specific techniques (brush work vs. knife) and contrasting styles (hyperrealism, abstract, etc.) , supposed to oppose each other which, associated pictorially, find a unique balance and an unusual harmony to become one and sublimate the canvas.

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This is how “ Oppositionism ” was born, an artistic movement which naturally reveals the contradictions sleeping within us, which each being must tame. This same mosaic and oxymoronic approach led him, like an obsession, to explore both animal power, witness to his paleontological work, and the sensuality of women.

Imperiously, the two magnetize and come together in the form of bronzes, all unique which is extremely rare in the speculative era of series in large numbers, to give body and life to feminine hands, an expression of softness and voluptuousness, which come, as a final provocation, to support and endure, the strength of a tiger's skull or the sharp claw of a dinosaur. When symbolism , subversion and aesthetics combine to express the concern and poetry of the world!

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François Lassere doesn't care about artistic codes and conformism. At the risk of causing weariness and boredom in him! In his lair, in Charroux , one of the most beautiful medieval villages in France, the Auvergne artist is never as fulfilled, inspired and creative as when he puts himself in danger. What drives him, makes him move forward, is to shake up preconceived ideas, go beyond the limits of the material and free himself from established rules. He likes to be where you don't expect him, needs to innovate on materials to discover areas that are still virgin, integration of precious stones in bronze, insertion of stained glass windows in the canvas... Create a work, whether it is a canvas or a bronze, is, for him, much more than a human and artistic adventure, an exploratory challenge. The next one? A bronze painting with, in the center of the canvas, a bronze bas-relief.

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A work that leads to only one path, one outcome, that of touching the soul of each person. Like a “soul seeker”, François Lassere is an artist who opposes and disturbs through the complexity of his works, only to arouse emotion and bring out in us an often poorly tamed inner duality.

Like popular African-American music which bears the same name, “ SOUL ART ” (or “the art of the soul”) , more than a movement or an artistic signature, is an art of living , a way of experiencing art, which imposes itself on it to raise awareness. At the crossroads of humanity and contemporaneity, of animality and sensuality, it gives free rein to our soul, complex by essence, to this deep nature which is specific to us towards which the artist takes us.

takes us where the raw power and turpitudes of man rub shoulders with his sensitivity and his part of dreams that are too often buried.

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“Talent is the audacity that others don’t have.”

François Lassere dares every day to put his soul at the heart of his work to speak to that of others.