The Last Supper

Mixed media on canvas

Using the format of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, Torres transforms the subject and creates his own narrative. Torres presents a new perspective that expands the vision of the known to what can be. Spread out the flayed sacrificial central figure represents the last meal. Its torn apart corpse covers the table in blood and carnage remaining volatile with squirting blood and flinging flesh dispersing throughout the scene. The central figure rising above in the traditional position of Christ is now Torres' iconic figure, the “Frowning Cat”. The toast is being made and the ceremony is in full force as the bottle is raised while flesh and blood stains the mouths of all. As the viewer examines the “guts of the painting”, a grotesque scene, one finds an inventive space where the drama of the paint reveals the phantasmagoric narrative which ensues. The beautifully painted surface draws us into the turbulent depths. Comparing the subject and its interpretation to the act of painting, we can see a parallel in radicality and anarchy. Yes, even Christ was a rebel for his time.