Lucas SamarasAmerican, 1936–2024Dinner #2
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- 3 days ago
- In this state since
- Sep 25, 2026
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the sculpture
Since the early 1960s, Lucas Samaras has made self-depiction the focal point of his practice. Active in painting, sculpture, assemblage, and performance art, Samaras has frequently invoked Surrealist-inspired motifs and ideas in his art, with many works possessing unnerving or even threatening qualities. Dinner #2 contains no human figure. But a human presence is strongly implied by the subject—a peculiar dinner setting. As viewers, we become involved in the work by our reaction to this unsavory-looking meal, a concoction of bent and broken bits of glass, plastic, and metal. “I’m never interested in ambiguous response, ” Samaras has said. “Rather a positive negative . . . touch or not touch, the quality of seducing-repelling.”
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 77.47
In the catalog
Sources
- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © 1962 Lucas Samaras / Pace Gallery. All rights reserved.
