The mirror is the instrument par excellence in Samaras\u2019s art, and the artist\u2019s own reflection is his privileged model. Lucas Samaras is a metic; a triumphant metic, of course, as he has secured a prominent place in the history of contemporary American culture. Yet, deep inside him he is a castaway living in self-imposed exile in the invented little island of his art. It is there that he creates his own personal homeland, his own community by multiplying his reflections on the surface of Narcissus\u2019 lake. And in the same way that water is never still, the reflection is often fragmented, wrinkled, ageing. The anxiety of time transforms the artist\u2019s image into Dorian Gray\u2019s portrait. Thus, the exhibition of Lucas Samaras at the National Gallery of Greece takes on the character of a therapeutic return.<\/p>\n
Exhibition Curator: Katerina Koskina
\nExhibition Coordinators: Efi Agathonikou and Artemis Zervou, Curators at the National Gallery of Greece<\/p>\n
Sponsor: John F. Costopoulos Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
National Gallery, 06\/04\/2005 – 30\/06\/2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48248,"template":"","class_list":["post-48823","ekthesi","type-ekthesi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n