Inside
the oven that was used, during the Passover, to cook unleavened
bread, Caravaggio places his Lo stupore è nuovo ogni giorno (Amazement
is New Each Day), recalling the amazement at the arrival of the manna in the
desert, the memory of which is renewed each year in the act of consuming unleavened
bread. A sheet of Murano glass with shattered edges is perforated by the pattern
of the stars on the day of the artist's birth. By covering the surface with
marble quartz, the artist recreates the pattern of this constellation on the
floor. Lifting the pane of glass, as if it were a shell, renews the amazement
of the origin, of the birth, of the creation of a new scenario. |
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