OSCAR RODRIGUEZ LASSERIA

“I am consistent with our roots.”

Oscar Rodríguez Lasseria, 1980

“The source of my art is in the popular elements that surround me. First in the culture my father gave me, then in the folkloric elements in the area where I live, then in the very mixed Latin American influence with both local and Afro-Hispanic influences.”

Oscar Rodríguez Lasseria, 1980

 

Oscar Rodríguez Lasseria (Florida, Camagüey, 1950) studied at the School of Art of Camagüey and the National School for Art Instructors. He is a graduate of the Interamerican Academy in the United States with specialties in drawing and painting. His work in ceramic art has succeeded in consolidating a personal style, supported by his friend and teacher, the artist Nazario Salazar.

Lasseria has worked in painting, ceramics in traditional forms, and has made ceramic murals and articles in the Japanese technique of Raku, which in Camagüey has been adapted to the technical conditions and the particularity of the available clay. Recently Rodríguez Lasseria was one of the organizers of the VIII International Symposium of Artistic Ceramics in Puerto Principe in 2012, in which works were made with various ceramic techniques, with the participation of artists in clay and fire from several regions of the country.

Guillermina Ramos Cruz, 2012

Agradecemos a la Fundación Ford por su apoyo para este proyecto /

/ Thanks to Ford Foundation for their support for this project"