Essay on Contemporary Artist: Roberto Lazzarini

Robert Lazzarini

Robert Lazzarini is an American artist who lives and works in the city of New York. He has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1995 and he is included in major collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

At first he was a sculptor, Lazzarini is best known for using and making common objects that have been subjected to multiple distortions and uses of abstraction which have the effect of confusing visual and space, or rather complicating the space of pictures and the space of things and even the projections of the work. Lazzarini also changes the physical surroundings in which these objects are seen—the ground to the object's "figure"—which adds to the confusing effect that the work aims to project on its audience. His works offer no ideal point of view and that is how it amazes its viewers to walk around the work, Lazzarini's sculptures trace their lineage back to the 1960s because of their sense of minimalism and to the introduction of phenomenology into art. All of Lazzarini's sculptures are created out of the same materials as the things on which they are based; for example, the skulls (2001), which Lazzarini first exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, were created out of real bones that were put in a cast.

Some of his works:

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