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Lot Essay
This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Lucas Samaras Boxes, which is forthcoming from Artifex Press.
“Lucas Samaras’s sculpture has always centered on a notion of transformation that is simultaneously magical and disturbing, seductive and irritating, and almost always visually irresistible. Samaras’s best objects are like magnets. Our eyes latch onto them, pore over them, have difficulty letting go; our minds are equally snared by their mesmerizing surfaces and startling juxtapositions of image, form and material” (R. Smith, “Repeated Exposures: Lucas Samaras in Three Dimensions,” Lucas Samaras: Objects and Sculptures 1969-1986, exh. cat., Denver Art Museum, 1988, p. 53.)
“Lucas Samaras’s sculpture has always centered on a notion of transformation that is simultaneously magical and disturbing, seductive and irritating, and almost always visually irresistible. Samaras’s best objects are like magnets. Our eyes latch onto them, pore over them, have difficulty letting go; our minds are equally snared by their mesmerizing surfaces and startling juxtapositions of image, form and material” (R. Smith, “Repeated Exposures: Lucas Samaras in Three Dimensions,” Lucas Samaras: Objects and Sculptures 1969-1986, exh. cat., Denver Art Museum, 1988, p. 53.)