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06 June 2009 - 13 September 2009
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Peter Greenaway is well-known for his work combining images from art history and the language of film. Now after Rembrandt’s Night Watch and Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, the English artist will tackle Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana and its setting of the Palladian Refectory on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Produced in collaboration with Change Performing Arts, the initiative is part of a larger project which includes the making of a film of the same title (The Wedding at Cana) to be given a world preview at the Venice Film Festival.
The Wedding at Cana facsimile offers Peter Greenaway the opportunity for an innovative and original interpretation via a state-of-the-art interplay of images, lighting, music, voices and sounds that will seem to emerge directly from the painting and the walls of the Refectory. The performance – a true multimedia event lasting about 50 minutes – will make spectators relive the episode of the marriage feast at Cana where Christ accomplished his first miracle, as narrated in the Gospel of John. Greenaway will point out to the public the painting’s scores of characters, from the servants preparing dishes, to the banquet guests, to the guests of honor – Jesus Christ and his mother Mary – seated at the center of the painting’s architectural composition, in an on-going crescendo culminating in the narration’s crucial moment: the miracle of water turning into wine.
In order to truly bring to light this extraordinary painting depicting a throng of over one hundred figures, the British moviemaker will make use of cutting-edge multimedia technology provided by Mediacontech, Italy’s main independent service provider, leader in solutions for the creation and management of content for digital media, museums and cultural industry.
The public will access the event in groups and at a specific time (every hour, on the hour) to share a unique and fascinating experience which – involving theater, art and moviemaking – places Peter Greenaway amongst the greatest artists who experiment unflaggingly with new means of expression for the new millennium.
http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Peter Greenaway is well-known for his work combining images from art history and the language of film. Now after Rembrandt’s Night Watch and Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, the English artist will tackle Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana and its setting of the Palladian Refectory on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.Produced in collaboration with Change Performing Arts, the initiative is part of a larger project which includes the making of a film of the same title (The Wedding at Cana) to be given a world preview at the Venice Film Festival.
The Wedding at Cana facsimile offers Peter Greenaway the opportunity for an innovative and original interpretation via a state-of-the-art interplay of images, lighting, music, voices and sounds that will seem to emerge directly from the painting and the walls of the Refectory. The performance – a true multimedia event lasting about 50 minutes – will make spectators relive the episode of the marriage feast at Cana where Christ accomplished his first miracle, as narrated in the Gospel of John. Greenaway will point out to the public the painting’s scores of characters, from the servants preparing dishes, to the banquet guests, to the guests of honor – Jesus Christ and his mother Mary – seated at the center of the painting’s architectural composition, in an on-going crescendo culminating in the narration’s crucial moment: the miracle of water turning into wine.
In order to truly bring to light this extraordinary painting depicting a throng of over one hundred figures, the British moviemaker will make use of cutting-edge multimedia technology provided by Mediacontech, Italy’s main independent service provider, leader in solutions for the creation and management of content for digital media, museums and cultural industry.
The public will access the event in groups and at a specific time (every hour, on the hour) to share a unique and fascinating experience which – involving theater, art and moviemaking – places Peter Greenaway amongst the greatest artists who experiment unflaggingly with new means of expression for the new millennium.
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