A current Holiday “happening” is a presentation of visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s latest epic, a 40-minute immersive multimedia work based on Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece “The Last Supper.” Marking the first US presentation of the artist’s installation at New York’s Park Avenue Armory’s soaring drill hall offers Greenaway an unparalleled space to present this series of dynamic audio-visual effects to stimulate new ways of seeing Leonardo’s masterpiece.
Using digital media and new technologies to interpret a well-known masterwork in a contemporary context, Greenaway pushes the boundaries between painting and film that will have special appeal to a tech savvy audience. The installation includes a meticulously detailed clone of the painting set within a full-scale replicate of the nearly 4,000 square ft. apse and cupola of the Refectory of Santa Maria dell Grazie in Milan home to the original work.
“Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway” is the fifth installment in an ongoing series “Ten Classic Paintings Revisited” which looks at classical and Renaissance paintings using 21century technology. Fans of Greenaway’s acclaimed and controversial film “The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover,” will not be disappointed in the artist/filmmaker’s latest venture.
Through January 6, 2011, http://www.armoryonpark.org/, (212) 616-3930.
