Mise en scène

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Francine LeClercq’s Last Supper Untitled is based on the famous fresco, The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and gives the viewer a sense of participation.

The inferred meaning of the title, “mise en [s]cène”: the act of stage setting, or more pertinently: the surrounding of an event, with a bracketed “s”, is a virtual gloss laid on Leonardo Da Vinci’s La Cène (French) more commonly known in English as The Last Supper.

Nearly the same size as the original mural in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, the work consists of six suspended boxed panels washed in white gesso on projecting steel brackets attached to a wall built to counter act the weight and serve as a backdrop.

The connection to the Last Supper is immediately evident by the cutout on the panels leaving the contour of the narrative in place, the work is hence summoned in absentia. The life size contour of the humanoids at eye level together with the resulting shadow cast on the wall is a vacancy that is simultaneously occupied by the actual and the fictive, the real presence of the spectator and the story of the narrative.
A table is placed in front of the work with a canvas on which visitors are free to draw and write with the provided oil sticks. Placed at the protagonist’s position is a casing with an ip camera, while the inverted pair of gloves attached to the casing alludes to Christ’s hands, they allow visitors to move the camera, a view from the work out which is transmitted in real time on the internet. The documented images and the canvas produced by the work itself are archived for future installations.
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“There is no white picture. And there is no old picture.
It is always a question of current experience and current perception.”
Rainer Borgemeister

My work has found its ground in the process of painting and the “idea” of painting, with a deeper focus on a complementary dialogue between materiality, content, the exhibition space, and the encounter with the viewer.
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Francine LeClercq completed her education in interior architecture and fine arts with honors from the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg/ France. Recipient of the Ritleng Prize, she was invited to collaborate on works with the International architect/artist/designer Gaetano Pesce in New York. Her art work is grounded on the thematic of perception and the tectonics of painting and has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. She has had the privilege to see her work selected by eminent curators such as Peter Blum/Peter Blum gallery, James Cuno/Art Institute Chicago, Lynne Warren/ Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Maxwell Anderson / Whitney Museum, Janne Siren/ Albright-Knox Gallery and Perttu Ollila, to mention a few. She has lived in New York City since 1992, where aside from painting, she practices architecture and design with Ali Soltani.
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Francine LeClercqin teos on ollut aiemmin esillä yhden kerran Yhdysvalloissa. Leonardo da Vincin kuuluisaan freskoon Viimeinen ehtoollinen pohjautuva mise en [s]cène antaa katsojille tunteen osallisuudesta. Näyttelykävijä voi pöytää kiertäessään sijoittaa itsensä apostolien paikoille tai työntää kätensä pleksikotelossa sijaitseviin käsineisiin ja toistaa Jeesuksen kädenliikkeet hänen jakaessaan ehtoollista opetuslapsilleen.