Untitled (Spoon)
Lucas Samaras American, born Greece
Not on view
After receiving a gift of Sculp-Metal in a can in 1955, Samaras later used this claylike material to make a proto-minimalist, floor-based object as well as several wall-mounted reliefs that encase disquieting objects—exposed razor blades, pins, or mangled cutlery—all of which became familiar components of his work. "For me," he wrote, "there is a curious struggle between the rough, undulating Sculp-Metal surface and the pricking intrusion."
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