{"title":"Lucas Samaras","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucas Samaras (b. 1936, Kastoria, Greece; d. 2024, New York) worked across sculpture, painting, photography, performance, and video over six decades, consistently using his own body, face, and domestic environment as unstable material. His early boxes and assemblages, made from pins, mirrors, and found objects, established an aesthetic of surface disturbance and psychological charge that would persist across every medium he subsequently entered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1960s Polaroid manipulations — in which he physically altered the emulsion of self-portrait photographs while still wet — through large-scale pastel works, digital prints, and late video installations, Samaras repeatedly turned self-image into a system of distortion, display, and return. The body was never simply depicted; it was processed, multiplied, fragmented, and recomposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItems in this section include exhibition posters, catalogues, invitation cards, and other printed matter produced in relation to Samaras’s exhibitions at PaceWildenstein, New York, and other institutions. These objects record the administrative and promotional surfaces through which his work entered public circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lucas-samaras-imovies-pacewildenstein-new-york-2006","title":"LUCAS SAMARAS — iMovies, PaceWildenstein, New York, 2006","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaceWildenstein, New York, 2006. Original exhibition poster, offset lithograph, printed in colour, 71 × 51 cm. Originally folded; now stored unfolded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced for Samaras’s 2006 PaceWildenstein exhibition \u003cem\u003eiMovies\u003c\/em\u003e, which presented new short films and a 25-channel video installation. The key work, \u003cem\u003eEcdysiast and Viewers\u003c\/em\u003e, placed a film of Samaras undressing alongside 24 filmed responses from viewers watching him. The work was later accessioned by MoMA in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamaras had long used his own body, face, studio, and domestic space as unstable material. From the early boxes and Polaroid manipulations through performance, photography, film, and digital media, his practice repeatedly turned self-image into a system of distortion, display, and return. \u003cem\u003eiMovies\u003c\/em\u003e sits at a later point in this trajectory: the artist no longer appears only as subject, but as a recorded event processed through viewers, monitors, software, and gallery promotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poster is not simply an announcement. It is a flattened relay of the exhibition system: artist, audience, gallery, reception date, address, title, image, documentation. The viewer portraits on the left become part of the image economy. The artist appears through his own performance, but also through the administrative design that carries the show into circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA promotional object for a work about looking. A poster that turns viewers into evidence. A gallery support that preserves the exhibition after the installation has disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition with visible fold lines, light handling wear, surface creasing, and minor edge and corner wear consistent with storage and circulation. Original period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PaceWildenstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53875048841554,"sku":"SAMARAS-PACEWILD-INV-2006","price":295.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Samaras_Lucas._Show_poster_iMovies_._1990_73c72bdf-e98d-4811-ac75-2ff4e5b9cad0.jpg?v=1782754019"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/lucas-samaras.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}