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Two views of Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway.
DEC 3: Peter Greenaway
December 2010
It’s rather cheeky of Peter Greenaway to call his work
“post-Avatar,” but in a way he’s right. Since 2007 the
British filmmaker and multimedia artist has been creating 3-D visual
feasts by combining holograms, lasers, and digital technology with Old
Master paintings. His latest, Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by
Peter Greenaway, arrives in New York on December 3, kicking off the
first season of programming at the newly renovated Park Avenue Armory
and anchoring a six-week celebration of Italian design to mark the 50th
anniversary of the Milan Furniture Fair. Greenaway’s Last Supper,
originally shown in Milan but reworked for the armory’s soaring
Drill Hall, includes a digitally reproduced “clone” of the
painting set inside a full-scale replica of the Refectory of Santa Maria
Delle Grazie, home to da Vinci’s original masterpiece. It’s
all part of Greenaway’s impassioned crusade to deepen visual
literacy among what he calls “a laptop generation of people who
believe there’s no cinema before Quentin Tarantino nor painting
before Jackson Pollock.”
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