Colin Warren: the blog

Amongst a number of other things last week, we managed to get to Peter Greenaway’s multi media installation of Leonardo’s The Last Supper which is part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Quite an amazing experience to see a faithful replica of the masterpiece that is then augmented by light and sound. The music did distract at times but managed to convey a certain feeling to the piece. The projections that ‘manipulated’ the painting were technically amazing and provide a range of effects (with large computer aided projectors) that at times turned the work into 3D and added depth as well as backlighting to the painting. At times I felt that the painting came alive and caused moments of deep reflection on the subject of the work – so for me, quite moving.

The audience stood around while the 20 minute show played out and there was a table centre piece set up and covered with white plaster replicas, and a projection on the back wall which was also interesting.

Definitely worth a look for $10 – I could go back for another viewing to pick up some of the things I may have missed first time round. There’s a ‘making of’ video on Google videos if you wanted to follow it up further.