Laso

The idea was born in 2015 during the K-Live festival. It was while filming an artist squaring a wall with a chalk tracer that Laso decided to create a whole minimalist pictorial language with the rubber band as the only tool. Laso immediately gives a name to this new technique: Slap Painting. In 2016 Laso began a series of Urbex and Land Art photography which he published on Instagram. Slapping consists of slapping straps, tensioners and elastics dipped in paint cans to instantly form abstract explosions.

“Slapping is first and foremost experimenting. Talk without explaining anything. It is not a conceptual form, but it inexorably ends up becoming one because it is a method which connects many subjects: sound, writing, thought, appropriation, chance, gesture."

Following in the footsteps of the abstract artists of the last century, Laso updates the question of the role of the artistic gesture, its contingency, its deconstruction. A game with matter and reality that takes on meaning at the heart of a universal anthropological principle: leaving a mark, here and now.

Shlack!