TALK with Peter Greenaway ‘The missing nail.A Vision by Peter Greenway for Cassina on Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper’
Durata: 11 min
Lingua: inglese
“Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper is curiously unlooked at nowadays.”, from this reflection starts the particular work of the well-known English director Peter Greenaway. Who conducts a research of the constructive codes, the hidden symbols in the objects and in the musicality incarnated in the gesture of the disciples. And then he comes to a discovery unnoticed by the majority of people: a small void in the canvas .““A small void vacated by a missing nail. Where is that missing nail now 521 years after da Vinci finished the painting?”asks Greenaway and gives his disconcerting answer in the movie. After watching the movie, you won’t look at the painting with the same eyes anymore.
11 min
Lingua: inglese
“Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper is curiously unlooked at nowadays.”, from this reflection starts the particular work of the well-known English director Peter Greenaway. Who conducts a research of the constructive codes, the hidden symbols in the objects and in the musicality incarnated in the gesture of the disciples. And then he comes to a discovery unnoticed by the majority of people: a small void in the canvas .““A small void vacated by a missing nail. Where is that missing nail now 521 years after da Vinci finished the painting?”asks Greenaway and gives his disconcerting answer in the movie. After watching the movie, you won’t look at the painting with the same eyes anymore.