The New York Times has a review by Roberta Smith of
The Wedding at Cana, a site-specific movie by Peter Greenaway, who has taken over the abbey at San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice to recreate the famous painting that originally hung there, but was taken by Napoleon in 1797 and shipped, in pieces, to the Louvre.
Like the original, the clone measures nearly 24 feet by 33 feet; it appears to include even the seams of Napoleon’s segmentation. It was painstakingly created pixel by pixel and installed in the restored refectory— a Palladian design— on 11 September 2007, 210 years to the day after its removal...
Mr. Greenaway’s plans or hopes for the future include Picasso’s Guernica, Seurat’s Grande Jatte, works by Pollock and Monet, Velázquez’s Meninas, and maybe even Michelangelo’s Last Judgment.
Rico says the review played up Greenaway's art pieces, and totally ignored his other movies, like
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, which is a much different genré...
The New York Times has a review by Roberta Smith of The Wedding at Cana, a site-specific movie by Peter Greenaway, who has taken over the abbey at San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice to recreate the famous painting that originally hung there, but was taken by Napoleon in 1797 and shipped, in pieces, to the Louvre.
Rico says the review played up Greenaway's art pieces, and totally ignored his other movies, like The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, which is a much different genré...
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