Raph-rent, (Raphael/Laurent)

acrylic on canvas, 200 x 130 cm,

© Laurent La Gamba

2001

Self-portrait with brush and cigarette,

acrylic on canvas

200 x 120 cm

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

© Laurent La Gamba

2001

Self-portrait, acrylic on canvas

acrylic on canvas

200 x 120 cm

© Laurent La Gamba

2001

Can't you shave, acrylic on canvas,

130 x 130 cm

© Laurent La Gamba

2001

Laurent La Gamba,

Works on canvas - Portraits and Self-portraits (1998 - 2001)

80 pages 

ISBN: 978-1500758356

Artist Laurent La Gamba tries to explore the subversive potential of consumer society to produce satirical canvases. It’s a symbiosis of precarious ego fictions and pictorial discovery of he fundamental instability of self. The artist is playing with consumer emblems and marketing to draw an ironical point of identification with the character photographed. For the artist the self-portrait genre is an instrument, delivering a complete range of self-representation. The portraits and self-portraits melodramatize and reimagine the artist's own physiognomy displaying a kind of modern existential heroism turned into absurdity or sometimes social and political criticicism. The figure as a neurotic and obsessive pattern is absolutely predominant in all his work. His interests lie in showing how identification processes can go both ways, from one extreme to the other and sometimes how different identities can coexist forsome time before a path is chosen.

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