After The Last Supper
After The Last Supper
Artist
Devorah Sperber
(born 1961)
Date2005
Medium20,736 thread spools, hanging apparatus, ball chain, viewing sphere, and stand
Dimensions84 1/2 x 348 x 108 in. (214.6 x 883.9 x 274.3 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.4
Accession number
2010.4
On View
Not on viewLabel TextMy work focuses on the intersection of art, science, and technology and their influence on the art of seeing. I am interested in how the human brain makes sense of the visual world and “reality” as subjective experience.
-Devorah Sperber
After The Last Supper is a life-size reconstruction of Leonardo da Vinci’s 1498 mural in the dining hall of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. Like Leonardo, Sperber is interested in human perception, representation, and the science of perspective, all of which are underscored by the inversion of this famous image, which rights itself when viewed through the lens positioned in front of the work. Using everyday materials associated with handicraft instead of the original painting’s “high art” media, the artist has created a reinterpretation for our time of one of the most famous images in the history of art.
