The painting is a silent poetry and the poetry is a blind painting, said Leonardo Da Vinci.
It is in this idea that "Spolvero. The Revealed Last Supper" finds its place: presence and absence, visible and invisible, dusting and relief. A circular system that subtracts the work to then return it through collective and multisensory fruition. A multisensory work that overturns the perspective of the "Last Supper," exchanging the role between those who see and those who do not see.
Realized by the artist Lucrezia Zaffarano, the graphic designer Matteo Carbonara, and the filmmaker Andrea Sartori, the project is also a tribute to what is never seen, but exists even before the "visible" work: dusting is in fact the preparatory drawing, that "before the work" that has been chosen for its correlation with the braille alphabet. The dusting is already the image that will never be visible, that "before" always present, an absent presence. The installation is among the winners of the "Milano da Vinci" competition, launched in December 2018 with the aim of rewarding the best ideas of young creatives under 35 capable of telling the innovative spirit of Leonardo da Vinci through the use of new media. The winning team of the competition was able to benefit from the valuable support of the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti, a partner of the competition, whose teachers accompanied the transformation of the project from artistic idea to multimedia installation, thus enhancing its expressive potential.
The exhibition "Spolvero. The Revealed Last Supper" is realized by Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Fondazione Stelline, and Comune di Milano.