“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 folk- loric 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 Nation- al School for Art Instructors. He is a graduate of the In- teramerican Academy in the United States with special- ties 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 paint- ing, ceramics in traditional forms, and has made ceram- ic murals and articles in the Japanese technique of Raku, which in Camagüey has been adapted to the technical conditions and the particu- larity of the available clay. Recently Rodríguez Lasseria was one of the organizers of the VIII International Sympo- sium 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
