Art is never finished, only abandoned.

When I first saw that there was a dome of Leonardo Da Vinci's exhibition erected outside Science Centre, it triggered my curiosity to check it out. After watching the interview with Pascal Cotte (the inventor of Lumiere Technology who revealed the original colours of Leonardo's Mona Lisa masterpiece) on Channel News Asia, it further confirmed my thoughts that this exhibition is not one to be missed.

Previously what I knew of Leonardo is that he's the father of flight and my knowledge of his works was restricted to Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Virgin of the Rocks and the Virtruvian Man, but he accomplished way more than that. He was an artist-scientist-anatomist-strategist-engineer-inventor (prolly one of the first people who held multi-hyphenated titles haha!) and the exhibition was a showcase of his brilliance. He's touted as the world's first modern mind and I think he had developed both his left and right brain really well.

There were highly-detailed drawings of the human anatomy, interactive stations to try out, life-size replicas of his inventions on display and this is just the tip of the ice-berg.

The highlight of the whole exhibition for me would be the secrets of Mona Lisa. Using modern photographic technology, Pascal Cotte was able to (virtually) restore the painting to its former glory. And what can I say, the original art piece is stunning. :)

There are 25 secrets of the Mona Lisa and I'm leaving you with one:
When you look at the portrait, she isn't actually gazing at you but behind you (no matter if you move right or left).

Intrigued? Go take a look for yourself, this is the best $15 spent :)