LUCAS MOLTRASIO

Art & Creativity

Lucas Moltrasio is an unusual and multifaceted contemporary artist. He has maintained a constant exploration since his adolescence, reinforced by his formal beginnings in Visual Arts at the IUNA, going through the Torcuato Di Tella University, various workshops with artists and theorists, and currently creating Contemporary Art in his studio in Gachi Prieto. His works transcend conventional media, and range from plastic arts to machine construction, through literary composition, the creation of board games, sculpture with unusual materials, and audiovisual creation.

Born on July 30, 1981, in Argentina. She studies Visual Arts at the National University Institute of the Arts (IUNA) and takes courses and workshops with artists and theorists, such as Marcelo Cohen, Graciela Speranza, Florencia Battiti, Diego Bianchi, Mónica Girón and Alejandra Roux, among others. Between 2004 and 2008, he almost completely left painting and dedicated himself to writing a semi-autobiographical novel titled The Unnecessary Case of OCD and DACC, whose content still vitally and permanently besieges his art. Tomás Cabalsa is born.

He resumed painting in 2009 with a particular assembly technique: painting and superimposing transparent celluloid plates. He begins to cut and paste his drawings and assemble his works as if they were board game boards.

In 2012, he obtained the Thinking with the Eyes scholarship under Marcela Gasperi and developed his Dictionary of Arbitrary Paradigmatic Relations. In 2015, he carried out the Research and Project Monitoring Program at the Gachi Prieto gallery and participated in the distance work clinic with Claudio Roncoli, with whom he began to define the painting style of Tomás Cabalsa, his most premature alterego. During 2016 and until now, he does a personal work clinic with Andrés Waissman and works mainly on the stories of his fictional artists, with special emphasis on Marcos Vincic, the young inventor of board games. In 2017, he was selected to participate in Cavallero Juventus and held a group exhibition in the space. There he briefly presents his theory on industrial therapy and creates a machine to take away Juan Cavallero's fear. Thus Federico Koch was born.

In 2018, he participated in a group exhibition curated by Alfredo Aracil and had his first individual exhibition at the Borges Cultural Center entitled Disorders illustrated, with the help of ZINK creative industries. In it he presents his first fictional story about the history of the painter Tomás Cabalsa. He begins to divide his works and ideas into different alter egos that become characters. They are the ones who, starting this year, are beginning to put a face to their concerns.

Through his plastic work, his stories and his playing cards and board games, he presents us with fictional stories based on his own sensitive experiences, anxieties, disorders and theoretical developments and those of the artistic school to which he belongs, always maintaining an intense closeness to the movements. popular artistic works, with a clear atmosphere of underground culture, a sincere and awake palette, a certain disruptive primitivism in its pop colors, its icons, its playful representations, its imagery, and a raw and tangible mordancy that never ceases to surprise.

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