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In âThe Last Soup,â Lady Kunst (Jacqueline Delaye) orchestrates a bold and provocative reinterpretation of one of the most recognizable icons in art history: Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. The artist not only pays homage to the masterpiece, but subverts it with contemporary iconography, opening a critical dialogue about consumption, scarcity, and the trivialization of the sacred in the modern era.
The background of the composition is a vibrant and stylized reinterpretation of the famous painting, where the apostles and Christ remain recognizable, but with an intensified color palette that gives them an almost pop or comic book feel. This stylization already hints at a distance, a reproduction of the image in the collective consciousness. However, the most striking intervention is the presence of two identical figures in the foreground, flanking the sacred table. Dressed in tank tops and fedora hats, and with an expression of determination or distrust, these figures hold bottles of detergent or cleaning products.
The juxtaposition of the sacred with the mundane, and even with the utilitarian and chemical, is at the heart of the satire. The âlast supperâ is transformed into the âlast soup,â suggesting a scarcity of the essential or a subsistence based on the artificial. The detergent bottles could allude to symbolic âcleansingâ or âpurificationâ in a world polluted by consumerism, or even to the trivialization of rituals. The duplicated figures, with their determined faces, seem both guardians of this new âsupperâ and cynical participants.
âThe Last Soupâ is a masterpiece of appropriation and cultural criticism. Lady Kunst uses the visual language of classical art to comment on the present, inviting us to reflect on image overload, the environmental crisis, the distribution of resources, and the way spiritual values and basic needs are altered in our society. It is a dinner of conscience, where what is consumed is not bread and wine, but a bitter truth about our world.
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âMy work is a mixture of apathy, courage and desperation. In order better represent the political issues of the society, I had created the fictional figure of Lady Kunst.â
Jacqueline Delaye has a multidisciplinary background based in social studies and arts. She studied Social Anthropology in Mexico city. Cinema and Tv in Barcelona and Art and Culture Management in Paris. She worked as a video artist and documentary filmmaker around Europe.
| Dimensions | 1 × 75 × 50 cm |
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| The last soup | Limited edition, 3 of a kind pieces I Authenticity Certificate numbered and signed by the artist I Fine Art HahnemĂŒhle II Digital photo I 80 x 45 cm ( outside dimensions 90 x 55 cm ) 5 cm white border 325g/m2 |