Lucas Samaras
Subtitle: me, myself and...
Contributors: Pace Gallery
Publisher: Pace
Published: 2020
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781948701266
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: Pace Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of more than seventy new works by Lucas Samaras, marking the artist?s thirty-fifth solo exhibition at Pace since joining the gallery in 1965. In his new body of work, Samaras appropriates and transforms imagery from his personal archive of family photos using commercial software, producing alternately haunting and humorous compositions that meditate on the role of mythology, mortality and fantasy in our inner lives. Samaras?s exhibition of recent photographic works will be presented alongside a selection of his pioneering sculptural objects from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as iconic works from later decades, and is accompanied by a catalogue containing a new text by the artist.0For more than six decades, Samaras has engaged in a provocative and influential investigation into the nature of selfhood. His new works derive in large part from black-and-white family photographs dating from his childhood in Greece in the 1940s, during the time of the Greek Civil War, as well as from later decades of his life. Together, these personal photographs track Samaras?s own history alongside the evolution of his protean body of work, continuing a longstanding investigation into the expanded field of self-portraiture.00Exhibition: Pace Gallery, New York, USA (17.01-22.02.2020).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Pace Gallery, New York, from January 17-February 22, 2020