Lucas Di Pascuale, Awarded the 2025 Braque Prize

An artist, professor, and editor, Lucas Di Pascuale has spent more than two decades developing an artistic practice in which drawing plays a central role as a discipline and a collective space for research, experimentation, and pedagogy.

Drawing projects the imagination. They may result from deep observation or free expression. Drawing is practiced in intimate contexts and taught in group settings.

One of the artist’s lines of work focuses on what he considers the “marginal practice of drawing.” This involves images that recover annotations, graphic marks, and small drawings made in the margins of paper. He carries out these drawings in the margins of his own work and cuts them out with scissors as if they were a pencil or pen. These images have rarely been exhibited.

The project created for the Braque Prize consists of two parts that complement each other. It turns drawing into a laboratory of the sensitive world around us and charts the back-and-forth within the artist’s creative process. First, a grouping of marginal drawings is exhibited. In this series, the artist attempts to classify and group the drawings into categories (e.g., elongated forms, trees, houses, circles, cones, triangles, and patterns, among hundreds of possibilities). Second, a video montage is projected in which these families “appear in action” within the artist’s more widely circulated production.

Lucas Di Pascuale was selected for this edition of the Braque Prize by an international jury and also received the Audience Mention. His project, La Isla de la Juventud (The Island of Youth), will enable him to complete a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

With a history spanning more than sixty years, the Braque Prize is a collaboration between the Embassy of France in Argentina, the Institut français d’Argentine, and the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) through MUNTREF. The federal award celebrates the diversity of local art scenes, supports established artists, and promotes work at the intersection of art, pedagogy, micropolitics, art history, and visual culture. The prize aims to strengthen institutional ties between countries and uphold art as a transformative poetic force.