Lucas Lasnier Aka PARBO is a part of the pioneers in the Argentinian local street art movement. Born in Mar del Plata and raised in Buenos Aires, this graphic designer and visual artist has his performances expressed in various cities of the world. From Miami to Berlin, Brasil to Mexico and Paraguay, his detailed and colorful work took place on many urban facades. « I started to paint on the streets in 2001 in Buenos Aires, mostly with spray cans, painting tags, graffiti through ups and stencil. At that time we were going through a very hard social and economical crisis and the public space was the perfect place to express any type of message and thus be able to change in some way all the social unrest that people were suffering. The street was free to tell what we wanted to say, it was the ideal support to leave a mark », he says.
« My artworks dives into a two-way highway, between life and death, consciousness and perceptions fields, red and blue if it were a circulatory system that pumps the mixed and abstract graphic universe, with figurative realistic symbolism. From inside to outside and vise versa, my work connects and swings from the street to the studio, in a way as a muralist I represent consciousness and spirits organically and in constant movement as a liquid mass that invades every possible space », he adds.
« At my studio, my work is completely linked to the ostracism and imprisonment of the artist in his stage of sublimation of the desire to tell a story in a pictorial way. This ostracism is expressed through the covered faces and these fabrics that turn the individual into a dead nature, hiding in its interior all this universe of energy and movement that the artist wishes to explore outside the real world ».
Found more about his work on his Instagram page : @lucasparbo.
