Artist and film maker Peter Greenaway... A visonary and on a passionate pursuit to bring creative awareness back to a visually confined generation.
His New York installation will be showing at the Park Avenue Armory starting December 3rd, 2010.
Leonardo's Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway, resides within a full scale replica of the Refrectory of Santa Maria Della Grazie that served as home to the original da Vinci master piece.
Within the complete repica of the Santa Maria... Greenaway digitally reproduced the orginal Last Supper.
The experience is tranformative for viewers as the digital production takes observers through a process breaking down visual layers of the original work by Leonardo Davinci.
As quoted from "W" magazine December 2010 issue: "Greenaway's impassioned crusade to deepen visual lieteracy among what he calls 'a laptop generation of people who believe there's no cinema before Quentin Terantino nor painting before Jackson Pollack."
Why am I enthralled at works by Peter Greenaway?... (Other than the obvious soaring installations with manipulations of light, sound, and theatrical greatness) He is challending a generation of people to see again and to even revisit the great works of art produced long before our time of current creativity.
He transfigures traditional painting and has used the gadgeted details of a world so sensory driven to media, and produced a reverberating experience from the mind of a great master.
His approach is fresh and new to a world numbed by expected yet somewhat delightful cinema.
Creating experiences is the most engaging thing about art. In this he has succeeded. Every sense should be awakened and heightened...
If I am not creating great "works of encounter" for viewers then I am no longer a visonary artist... but a mere fabricator of material. I refuse this type of small thinking... and even in my most humble image there will always be huge visual implications... Every piece matters and every great work of art can serve a purpose.
What a delightful installation from Peter Greenaway.
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