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Lucas Samaras Represents Greece

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53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

Curated by Matthew Higgs, Lucas Samaras will present the multi-installation “Paraxena” in the Greek Pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale from June 7 to November 22, 2009. The exhibition for the Greek Pavilion brings together works from three recent series (2005-2009) of photographic and video works, juxtaposed with a discrete group of works from the mid 1960s. The three recent groups of works – from the “Nexus,” “Chairs,” and “iMovie” series – have not been widely seen outside of the USA.  They will be shown alongside a major video installation “Ecdysiast and Viewers” (2006), which is on loan from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The “Chairs” and “Nexus” series are photographic works which further extend Samaras’ radical use of photographic technologies (a dialogue that began in the late 1960s with his first experiments with Polaroid technology.) Both photographic series originate in images taken during Samaras’ walks through New York City. They present a kind of hallucinatory urbanism.

The exhibition features Samaras’ most recent work, but does so in a way that sets up conversation across four decades of his practice, establishing a historical context for the new work.

For more information please visit: http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/6647