Marking the tenth anniversary of his untimely death and as part of the re-hang of its collection, EM\u03a3T presents a SPOTLIGHT on George Lappas (1950\u20132016), featuring works from the museum\u2019s collection as well as selected loans. Lappas was one of the most important contemporary Greek artists of his generation, making a decisive contribution to sculpture and conceptual art in Greece.<\/p>\n
The artists radically redefined sculpture in Greece. He played a key role in shifting the field away from traditional representation toward more contemporary, conceptual, and multilayered forms of expression, connecting the Greek art scene with international developments in contemporary art.<\/p>\n
Lappas\u2019 multifaceted body of work is defined by a sustained investigation of sculptural form as a kind of three-dimensional drawing in space. It investigates the threshold between two- and three-dimensionality, as well as the shifting relationship between architectural and illusory space, through a research-driven, experimental practice that spanned sculpture, photography, movement, light, and scale. Drawing on cross-cultural references that ranged from ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Mayan art to 20th-century art history, and key moments in recent political and social history, his work unfolds in a liminal field between opposing registers: the personal and the collective, the private and the public, the artwork and the viewer, the local and the global, East and West.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is held as part of EM\u03a3T\u2019s Spotlight<\/em> program, which aims to present artists from the collection in greater depth, offering the public the opportunity to delve deeper into their work. The exhibition features works from the EM\u03a3T Collection, alongside additional loans that encapsulate some of the central questions underpinning his entire artistic career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marking the tenth anniversary of his untimely death and as part of the re-hang of its collection, EM\u03a3T presents a SPOTLIGHT on George Lappas (1950\u20132016), featuring works from the museum\u2019s collection as well as selected loans. Lappas was one of the most important contemporary Greek artists of his generation, making a decisive contribution to sculpture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":95762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,1,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95771,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95769\/revisions\/95771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}