{"id":1,"date":"2013-03-07T20:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.positiveweb.it\/yta\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-01-13T15:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T14:07:42","slug":"ciao-mondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yt.omni.ge\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Manana Gunia\u2019s Virtual Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born and grew up in Georgia\u2026<\/em>
\nLives and works in Italy\u2026
\nDreams and creates in the virtual theater\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

Manana Gunia, the Georgian set designer, ten years ago went for study to Florence, the town of her dreams (the scenography chair of Florence Academy of Art, the course of virtual scenography) and tied her creative work with the virtual theater.<\/p>\n

She scored a first great success with her work created as far back in Tbilisi. This was the virtual setting and costumes for William Shakespeare\u2019s play \u201cThe Tempest\u201d: in 2002 at the International Competition of Artists in Florence \u201cXX Premio Firenze\u201d Centro Culturale Firenze-Europa \u201cMario Conti\u201d<\/a> she was awarded the Gold Medal in the nomination \u201cDigital Arts & Multimedia\u201d. The work was presented in frames of the international exhibition, at Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento.<\/p>\n

In this successful work performed in 3D graphics the artist created the metaphoric image of magician Prospero\u2019s world, the main character of the play: the metaphysical drawing of the mysterious \u00a0island is created with the machine similar to the ship board\u00a0 which when rotating turns first into the esplanade, then \u2013 into the altar and into the ship under canvas. In addition to the machine very important is the background \u00a0multimedia projections, created with the replicas of works of famous artists (Michelangelo \u201cThe Creation of Adam\u201d, Salvador Dali \u201cCrucifixion\u201d) or abstract video art. The costumes of characters represent the organic continuation of the setting. Their architectonics is monumental and is based on the cult images of the renaissance architecture. At the same time, following the character\u2019s nature (Antonio, Prospero), the modified architectural details \u201cknitted\u201d in the costume structure are read as the postmodernistic quotes.<\/p>\n

The next important experience for Manana Gunia was the diploma work at the Academy of Arts \u2013 the scenography of the modern composer Francesco Traversopera \u201cOrestes\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 presented by director Massimo Mattioli in the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence <\/a>at the classic music festival \u2013\u201cMaggio Musicale Fiorentino\u201d. In this performance the artist succeeded to apply a new experience and to display the modern musical work in frames of the minimalistic aesthetics.<\/p>\n

The logic completion of the Florence stage was the diploma work of the Florence academy of Arts \u2013 the virtual setting of the television performance based on Edward Bond play \u201cThe Sea\u201d. The artist expressed the psychological drama image with the elements of a detective story by\u00a0 her typical manner, where the setting expresses the passions of characters but not \u00a0the concrete environment: the heavy sea of fear with fan-shaped waves\u2026 in the episode of corpse identification the\u00a0 series of soulless robotized figures attaches the monotonic rhythmicity\u00a0 to the composition and creates the estrangement feeling\u2026 the naked male dummy set in the Lenin\u2019s cult attitude and elevated on the piano in the mirror-like endless steppe represents the apotheosis of craziness.<\/p>\n

In this work we see the wonderful combination\u00a0 of the artist\u2019s Georgian and European\u00a0 traditions of art education and experience of the different\u00a0 national scenographic languages.<\/p>\n

Noteworthy is that due to her distinguished properties in 2004 Manana Gunia was invited as a teacher to La Scala Academy of Theater Art of Milan<\/a> where she held the course of Virtual Scenography.<\/p>\n

Further creative searches of Manana Gunia are based on the interest in the opera art: the costumes for Zakaria Paliashvili\u2019s opera \u201cAbesalom and Eteri\u201d are performed in 2D and 3D graphics. Their structure is based not so on the Georgian national garments but on the architectonics of the ancient Mesopotamian sculptures. The national elements exceed the narrow folklore character and are generalized. The details of those costumes represent both the Georgian pagan archetypical symbols, Kolkhic items and the samples of Christian art, ornament, replicas of Khakhuli icon and Tamar\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n

The last work of Manana Gunia, the virtual setting for Gioachino\u00a0 Rossini\u2019s opera \u201cThe Silk Stair\u201d, was presented at the artist\u2019s solo \u00a0exhibition devoted to the International theater Day\u00a0 in Tbilisi, on March 27, 2012 (organized by the Valerian Gunia Union of Young Theatric Artists \u2013 YTA Union and Theatre\u00a0 Society of Georgia).<\/p>\n

Rossini interpretation represents the certain stage in the artist\u2019s creative work \u2013 the opposition of the purposeful sketchiness of the setting to the hyperrealistic elements \u2013 the historic sightseeing of Venice, natural water in Canal Grande, grandiose Murano chandeliers \u00a0creates the dualistic mood. The traditional comic environment of the opera buffa is substituted with the cold and generalized city of Utopia: the closure of the play space, classic proportions of architectural elements, maximum elegancy and laconism of forms resembles the classic tragedy. The transparent background-screen is also dualistic by its dual function: the artist uses the Magic Mirror Backdrops for counter-projection of the video art and the parallel reflection of the setting.<\/p>\n

It seems that this last scenographic experiment reveals the artist\u2019s current world-view \u2013 fatalism and aesthetic voyeurism.<\/p>\n

At\u00a0 present Manana Gunia lives in Milan. She works in the sphere of multimedia, advertising and exposition design (among other things she designed the Georgian student pavilions Prague International Quadrennials<\/a> of\u00a0\u00a0 2007 and 2011) and creates experimental projects in the virtual theater.<\/p>\n

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Tbilisi, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n

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