After the Mona Lisa 2 - Sewing Feature

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After the Mona Lisa 2, by Devorah Sperber The North Carolina Museum of Art has recently chosen an installation by contemporary New York-based artist Devorah Sperber titled "After The Mona Lisa 2." This work comprises 5,184 spools of Coats Dual Duty thread as the "color palette" to re-create a detail from Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting. Sperber has transformed one of the most well-known works in the history of art by inverting and enlarging it over 200 times to 85 by 87 inches. Viewing the work through an acrylic sphere that is part of the installation mimics peripheral vision, turning the image right side up and shrinking it back to a recognizable size. In her work Sperber explores the reproduction of images in the digital era, links between art and technology, and visual perception - how the eye and brain make sense of the visual world. After The Mona Lisa 2 will be formally gifted to the Museum in September and installed this fall in the modern and Contemporary Gallery. For more information, please visit the NC Museum of Art online at www.ncartmuseum.org - for information about other exhibitions and to view additional works by Devorah Sperber, please visit her website at www.devorahsperber.com.