Some people still believe that revisiting a classic is tantamount to desecrating it. There are still those who condemned this as an impure act. But the conservative and shortsighted. Reinterpreted as a fresco The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is nothing but a re-reading. The fruit of the genius of Leonardo is still there, unchanged. Change the only way to observe it. Better, to live it. And Peter Greenaway, with its installation in the beautiful Caryatid Room of Palazzo Reale in Milan, put simply use his skill to help the viewer to do so.
lights and sounds lead into and instantly knocked out . The observer becomes a spectator. The viewer becomes an actor. The vision becomes osmotic participation. The space between the viewer and the work disappears.
The problems of painting ... show the enigma of the body, and this justifies them enigma. Since things and my body are made of the same cloth, that the vision must face them in some way, or even that the visibility of things manifest to accompany him in a secret vision: "Nature is all ' inside, "says Cezanne. Quality, light, color, depth, which are there before us, are there only because they awaken an echo in our body because it welcomes them inside ... ... equivalent formula carnal presence that things arouse in me.
The Eye and the Spirit , Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1964.
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