Seven individual installations made from bronze, stainless steel, rock and rope. The collection of artworks is called “Lacuna, or a missing piece”. “Gravity as Thief and Protector” depicts a ladder reaching up towards the sky, resting on a stainless steel moon. Several lower rungs on the ladder are missing and perched towards the top is a raven with one of the rungs in its talons.
Maskull wanted interactive and publicly accessible sculptures for the new Oceanfront area—something other than building jewellery which public art sometimes tends to be. It’s an extraordinary site and it called for an extraordinary approach to populate it with a physical manifestation of culture and history. All of these pieces point out to the landscape, into the community and to the history and possible futures rather than being static destination pieces that talk about themselves. The collection of artworks is called “Lacuna,” which Maskull describes as “a missing piece”. It’s the pause between words that meaning inhabits, the empty space that’s filled with whatever people bring to it. Maskull looks at these as illustrations for an unwritten fable.”
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Maskull Lasserre has a BFA (Visual Art and Philosophy) and an MFA (Sculpture) from Mount Allison and Concordia Universities respectively. He has taught drawing and sculpture at the California College of Art, Concordia, York, Quest, and Emily Carr universities. His work appears on Canadian coinage and has been exhibited internationally at Banksy’s Dismaland, and the Museum of Art and Design in New York amongst others.
