MIlano, Jan 30 (askanews) – an investigation into the creative process that is the basis of the films, as well as performance and choreography, but also a reflection on the “zero degree”, as Roland Barthes would say, of visual cultural construction. Observatory of Fondazione Prada in Milan hosts the exhibition “A Kind of Language: Storyboard and Other Renderings for Cinema”. An exhibition dedicated to the sketches and drawings that then prepare the final work.
“I think the storyboards – said the curator Melissa Harris in Askanews – represent collaboration at the most wonderfully human level. They show how someone can have an idea and make it from an visual point of view, transforms it into a sort of language to share it with other people involved in a wider project “.
Storyboard on display
The exhibition, fascinating also for a wider audience than the one that normally attends the Observatory, presents, for example, the storyboard of Disney masterpieces as “fantasy” or “Snow White”, but also of “in search of Nemo”; There is the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”, as well as the sketches for Charlie Chaplin’s “great dictator”. But also the schemes for the choreography of Cunningham goods and the performances of Joan Jonas. And, remaining in the context of contemporary art, Matthew Barney’s drawings-sculpture for “Cremaster 1”.
“They are very important documents – added the curator – because they show the different ways in which the mind works and how to go from a mental image to a real image for, in different ways and with different techniques. It does not matter with which tool you work, but I love the celebration of the imagination, and for me the storyboard represent this: the behind the scenes of a final product that we know, but we do not know how we have come. They show us the original idea and the way it then evolved, because storyboards are also tools to solve problems “.
However extremely fascinating, storyboard are intended for use, replication, they are stages of a processing, therefore objects, but also abstract tools in their own way, which must give shape to ideas. “This is an exhibition on the creative process -concluded Melissa Harris -. When I proposed it we didn’t know how it would become: there are no works of art in the classic sense of sculptures or paintings. They are objects, but even they are not, there are tangible elements, but we also talk about something experiential, something that changes, something that is thought and vision put into practice “.
For the exhibition, a dedicated storyboard was also created by the artist Pablo Buratti, who welcomes visitors at the entrance of the exhibition space and also tells the Observatory.
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