Ultima Cena (Last Supper)

The Last Supper

A minimalist, symbolic reinterpretation of The Last Supper where the twelve apostles are represented by fish. Jesus is the predestined sacrifice and – at once – the Saviour, whose flesh is consumed. The sequence of embossed golden dots refers to an allegedly embedded musical code in Da Vinci’s masterpiece. (M. De Giorgi)

The last supper: the night when Jesus was betrayed. But the last supper also reminds us that we likely would have betrayed him too. We are in good company: Peter betrayed him too. The Last supper is a call to a hermeneutics of the self – to remember all the times we have been mimetically violent to our neighbours. But there is also hope in the last supper – hope that is expressed here, through the symbol used by early Christians: the fish, ichtus (as an acronym for Iesous Christos Theous Uios Soter). We use the Cross as symbol; but we find atonement through the Cross not because a jealous God needs the blood of his son to avenge his honour; rather, because Jesus reveals the truth of forgiveness. It is through this divine forgiveness that Christ is “soter”, saviour. (D. Bubbio)