The last Supper

2026, Bronze Sculpture 50 x 50 cm, Edition of 3 + AP

This work extends the transformation of the ordinary into the revered. While Cattelan deified the perishable banana into canon through taping it to a wall, here the transformation is inverted with a croissant made bronze; historically a material reserved for monuments, memorials, and the preservation of cultural memory. In doing so, it traces a path from the disposable to the permanent, questioning how and why certain objects are granted endurance while others are designed to disappear.

The title invokes the rituals through which everyday materials can acquire extraordinary significance. Bread becomes sacrament, objects become relics, and the ordinary becomes worthy of preservation. In this sense, the work asks whether cultural value resides in the object itself, or in the stories we choose to tell about it.

Within the wider series, the work returns to the question of value being created through context and designation. Here, that proposition is pushed further. The temporary object is no longer merely elevated by association; it is granted the physical permanence of the classical tradition - and like the relics of the ancients, may outlast the civilisation that created it.