exhibition
Alana Kennedy
Orpheus Diningroom Project MMX
Alana Kennedy, artist, cook & gastronome reopens her 2009 project (Marsilio Ficino Temporary Diningroom Project – tormentati i sensi) as Orpheus Diningroom ProjectMMX, a doubling and continuing homage to the Florentine philosopher and mystic Marsilio Ficino.
The dining room concept evolved out of a search for a context in which to present a cycle of paintings informed by the lavish flower field foreground in Botticelli’s Primavera.
Kennedy visited Florence two years prior to make sketches directly from the original work. MFTDPMMIX – tormentati i sensi, evolved into a lavishly decorated living, functioning diningroom serving Hesperidean inspired delicacies for an entire lunar cycle (28 days).
An unbroken innocent wonder leads into an underworld where the muse – as a muse might – reverses the process that formed MFTDPMMIX – tormentati i sensi ODPMMX – an underworld diningroom – wherein to dine is not merely to eat.
