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Marisol Escobar (American, born France, 1930), Self-Portrait Looking at The Last Supper, 1982–84, Painted and drawn wood, plywood, brownstone, plaster, aluminum

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous fresco The Last Supper is the basis for Marisol’s contemporary sculptural assemblage. In this monumental thirty-foot-long construction (matching the fresco’s length), Marisol faithfully translates the illusionistic perspective of the painting into three-dimensional form and space. The fresco’s ambiguities (between reality and illusion and plane and volume) resonate in the sculpture, where our perception constantly shifts between two dimensions and three as the seated figures are neither fully rounded nor consistently flat.

The central figure of Christ is beautifully chiseled from a block of salvaged New York City stone, while the rest of the figures and the table items are assembled from more than a hundred painted and drawn pieces of wood. Looking serene and ashen, and already otherworldly in spirit, Christ’s physical solidity provides the visual and emotional anchor for this dramatic scene. Seated across the room from The Last Supper, a single wooden figure representing the artist herself scrutinizes her handiwork. Her watchful presence reaffirms the point that art is about looking, evaluating, and reinventing what one sees.

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