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« Elans », Jacques Lasserre
Paintings and sculptures
It is a pleasure to welcome for the first time Jacques Lasserre, a native sculptor from the Landes, deeply rooted in his homeland, often exhibited and celebrated there, and recognized far beyond for the quality and the almost musical rhythm of his forms. A journey through his work, from the Roman Legionnaire of the Dax Fountain, to fiery nudes, and on to solemn totems and sober yet powerful animals.
En savoir plus sur Jacques Lasserre :
JACQUES LASSERRE, Sculpteur.
(Né en 1945. Vit à Narrosse, dans les Landes)
Intègre l’école des Beaux Arts de Bayonne à l’âge de 15 ans, dont il sera diplômé quelues années plus tard.
Jacques Lasserre fut également élève de l’école des Beaux Arts du Havre, et de Paris, en 1966, où il suivra les cours du sculpteur Louis Leygue.
Expositions
1974 : Centre culturel, Dax
1976 : Galerie du 14 juillet, Paris
1977 : Galerie d’art municipale, Dax
1981 : Galerie Sken, Biarritz (avec Pascal Convert)
1983 : Espace Cardin, Paris
1984 : Atelier Marie Lorraine, Bordeaux
1985 : Galerie Perspective, Bayonne
1987 :Bardos – Sculpteurs français et espagnols
Galerie d’Art municipale, Dax
1988 : Mistinguett Galerie, Phoenix, USA
Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau
1989 : Centre d’Art contemporain, Mont de Marsan
Couvent des Récollets, Cognac (avec Marcel Saint Martin)
1990 : Musée Bonnat, Bayonne
Rochefort, 1er prix de sculpture
1991 : Galerie d’Art municipale, Dax (avec Stéphane Hazera)
Galerie Ginou Larrouilh, Biarritz
1992 : Palais des Festivals, Biarritz
1994 : Centre culturel Dax (avec Lydie Arrickx)
1995 : Musée Ingres, Montauban
Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau, exposition « Le proche et le lointain »
1996 : Galerie Start, Bordeaux
Le Carré, Musée Bonnat, Bayonne
1997 : Le Patio en septembre, Anglet
1999 : Villa Béatrix, Anglet
2000 : Centre culturel, Dax (avec Benoit et Michel Lasserre)
2002 : Galerie d’Art municipale, Dax
2003 : Bayonne Art Contemporain, Musée Bonnat, Bayonne – La sélection Jean-Jacques Lesgourgues
2003 : Rencontres Expressions, Crypte Sainte Eugénie, Biarritz
2005 : Bardos en été
2007 : La Carré, Musée Bonnat, Bayonne
2011 : Musée de Borda, Dax
Musée de Guéthary
2015 : Musée Despiau-Vlérick, Mont de Marsan
2019 : Crypte Sainte Eugénie, Biarritz
2023 : La Benoîterie, Arbonne
2025 : Galerie du Moisan, Vieux Boucau
Acquisition d’œuvres par le Musée des Beaux Arts de Pau, et par les municipalités d’Anglet et de Narrosse
2026 : exposition au Fonds Labégorre, Seignosse, avec Serge Labégorre
100% Labegorre
Paintings and sculptures
“The painter of the human soul”
“His subject, from the very first day, has been man, and there is no need to be distracted by his era in order to address it. What matters to him is sensitivity to the human substance. He needs to preserve its traces.” When you light a glance, all of humanity looks at you. ». »
Christian Seguin. Grand reporter, Sud Ouest Dimanche – 2014
« Deux frères »
Hommage à Bernard Ponty, painter and writer, cousin of Serge
ÉVÈNEMENT : SAMEDI 16 MAI 2026 – VERNISSAGE ET CONCERT
Vernissage de l’exposition à 11h30, autour d’un brunch et en présence de la famille de l’artiste.
Suivi d’un concert classique à 15h dans la grande salle du fonds Labegorre avec la violoniste Pascale Meley, de l’Orchestre national de Paris, et la pianiste Jeanne-Marie Ponty Fourel, Professeur au Conservatoire de Montreuil.
Pascale Meley et Jean-Marie Ponty Fourrel, nièces de Bernard Ponty, interprèteront :
S Bach – Sonate n° 3 BWV 1016
Clara Schumann – Drei Romanzen op 22
Robert Schumann – Drei Romanzen op 94
Claude Debussy – Sonate
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En savoir plus sur l’exposition :
Bernard Ponty was Serge’s first cousin. A writer, painter, and philosopher, he passed away in 2020. The bond between Serge and Bernard was so clear, so evident, so timeless from their youth onward, that it is a joy to finally open the walls of the Fonds’ great hall to this brother in spirit. Companion in every challenge, every project, every journey—especially those summer holidays that brought the whole family to Capbreton, Hossegor, or Seignosse in the 1960s and 70s.
100% Labegorre
Paintings
« I am not a friendly painter " admits Serge Labégorre, who for forty years has been painting portraits of seriously ordinary individuals. " Banality has its greatness ", it is also at the heart of our daily or historical dramas, repeated in each new generation, that the painter draws the permanence of the gazes and the disintegration of the bodies that he gives form."
Gérard Gamand, extract from “Serge Labégorre, heavy looks”, Azart Special Edition No. 3, 2005
« La grandeur du modeste » Serge Labégorre passe l’été avec Jean-Pierre Ruel
Paintings
Jean-Pierre Ruel paints the modest habitats of the countryside, the mountains and the beings who stay there or brush against them, with infinite love, an extreme quality that is at the same time trembling and alive. A great painter, with solid, warm, reassuring work, like a good corduroy garment, a fine wine... A solid and sumptuous work, grand, at the service of all that is modest. And which has its grandeur.
100% Labegorre
Paintings
"Serge Labégorre takes a lucid look at his contemporaries, whose painting serves as an uncompromising mirror of a paroxysmal vision. This unique approach has an epic dimension."
Lydia Harambourg. Critique d’art. La Gazette Drouot, septembre 2015.
« Témoins et sentinelles »,David Daoud et Valérie Fanchini
Paintings and sculptures
French-Lebanese painter David Daoud continues to question our lives, the world he inhabits. In the latest monograph dedicated to him, Ibrahim Maalouf writes: " He doesn't just paint faces, bodies and landscapes; he sculpts emotions, identities, collective stories that resonate with our own humanity.… ».
As for Valérie Fanchini, sculptor, she declares: " Working with various materials such as earth, plaster, bronze or steel first, glass has grabbed me since 2004 and I have not let go. » …/… « Glass is captivating for a sculptor because it allows you to work on the interior of the volume by making light play an even more fundamental role. It is an ambivalent medium, a liquid/solid, a present/absent, a fragile/solid, an interior/exterior. » A first in Seignosse for these two young and beautiful artists, eagerly awaited.
100% Labegorre
Paintings
The work of Serge Labégorre masterfully contradicts the thesis of an agony in the history of Western art. Indeed, the radical upheaval of Picasso, Céline or Joyce, the telluric brutality of Pollock, the near muteness of Beckett or Rothko, the impulsive universe of Simenon, seem to prefigure the advent of an irremediable nihilism. But there is Labégorre, a painter inspired by souls in pain, but not dead, that the usual qualifier - expressionist - defines very imperfectly."
Denis Tillinac, April 2014. Extract from “Now, there is Labégorre”, preface to the book “Origines”, published for the inauguration of the Labégorre Fund in Seignosse, in November 2014.
Lumières, Serge Labégorre avec Lucie Geffrey
Paintings
Lucie Geffrey, a young painter from Aquitaine, is almost a regular at the Fonds Labégorre. Her depiction of great truth, of great affection for what lives, fights, moves, and dies, is always a pleasure for the eyes as well as for the heart. Exhibition pending validation at the time of writing
« Dans un monde de mystères » par Serge Labegorre et Frédérico Alagna
Paintings
DATE A DÉFINIR EN 2026
Frédérico Alagna, a multifaceted artist and an insatiable man—at once painter, sculptor, and also a musician of great talent, like the entire Alagna family—returns to Seignosse after a first experience alongside Delphine Lahens and Jean-Marie Salanié, for a one-on-one encounter with Serge. We will be able to admire his work on faces, sculpted in different materials, filled with gravity, wavering between pain and prayer. A descent into the self, or a supplication.
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