Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea is pleased to present The Last Supper, the second solo exhibition by Gavin Turk at the gallery, nine years after his first show in 2017. The exhibition renews the gallery's dialogue with one of the most significant figures in British contemporary art.
Through a new series of paintings and sculptures, Turk questions what gives value to an object. Faded flowers, abandoned containers and everyday packaging are the protagonists of a reflection on the transience of things and the fragility of their meaning.
In the floral paintings, flowers appear and dissolve through layers of colour, slowly fading into the canvas. Having passed their moment of greatest vitality, they are no longer simply objects to be observed, but traces, almost memories of something that is no longer there: silent witnesses to the passing of time.
At the centre of the exhibition is the monumental painting that gives the exhibition its title.