Luca Lazar

Intermedial, Painting, Video, Installation

Luca Lazar (Lasareishvili) was born in 1957 in Tbilisi/Georgia. He completed his studies at the Academy of Arts of Tbilisi, gained experience as an actor and assistant director and later went to Moscow, where he converged with the artist group "Hermitage".

In 1988 he came to Paris and then, due to the invitation of the Museum of Fridericianeum, Kassel, to Germany in 1989, where he lived and worked until 2002 in Cologne.

Since 2003 he lives and works in NY City.

Since 1984, he exhibits in numerous international museums and galleries and received scholarships and prizes, e.g. the Ursula Bickle art Prize in 1995 for his installations. Since 1997, he is a visiting professor of the European Academy of fine arts at Trier.

Luka Lazar's meditative approach to painting is based on the knowledge that he could gain through his media and video works in the 1990s. The unreality of the perception of inside and outside, of time and space is shown in his video installation "Left-right time - or the dream of flying" from 1997 - the "Moving Stills". In this picture of the room, he brought time in reciprocity with the reality and relativity of the inside and outside apparently to a halt. The boundaries between painting and media art are fluent and the two media cross-fertilizing. Here the new painting series "Moving stills" by Luca Lazar tie in. His special technique of concrete painting repeals the spatiality of the static image linked to size and shape of the canvas and bestir perception.