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Klearchos Loukopoulos was one of the pioneers in the reception and establishment of modernist sculptural trends in Greek art. His realistic efforts in the interwar years gave way, post-war, to anthropocentric sculptures distinguished by their archaic abstraction, with obvious influences from Mycenaean figurines. During a "transitional period" between 1955-60, we find that he turns a new page in his work: using mainly metal, he is gradually led to more abstract and, subsequently, constructivist pursuits with solid geometric compositions, structured with purity, rigour and simplicity. The work "Composition" belongs to the phase of his work up to 1972, in which solid metallic volumes are precisely structured one after the other, in a composition whose starting point is constructivist, while the curves of the work give shape to the few gaps in between. His case clearly combines the archaic tradition with the modern one, something to which there was a shift in the Greek art scene of the 20th century anyway. And his legacy was very important: he represented the country in many international art events (e.g. 28th and 33rd Venice Biennale in 1956 and 1966, 5th Sao Paolo Biennale, 3rd Alex