Introduction
The event that recently finished was the last one for MiMA in 2009, a photography workshop with a great artist that has been creating for over a decade, with the help of new technologies, blending human faces with the features of beasts and fierce creatures, to create hybrid creatures, sexless and ethereal that seem immaterial. MiMA hosted great artist Daniel Lee, well known and appreciated on an international level, featured in many important contemporary art museums and present at many editions of the Biennale di Venezia.
Presentation of the event
On the previous Thursday, a press conference took place at the City Library in Verona, organised in collaboration with the Council for Culture of Verona, with the presence of artist Daniel Lee, MiMA's President Elisabetta De Strobel and journalist Giancarlo Beltrame, who interviewed the artist. Moreover, for a whole week in the Spazio Nervi of the City Library there was a viewing of some of the most impressive works of the artist, together with a presentation of MiMA association.
In the classroom
During the day of the workshop a presentation video was shown of the author's main works, as well as his artistic path and evolution.
Later, Lee and the technical staff helped the many students present at the workshop – among whom there were the winners of the Photo Competitions “It's your water” MiMA for Onirica and “Science becomes Art” for Telethon – through the creation of a photographic work. Starting from the shots with different models, only one shooting was finally chosen. Once they chose the most suitable for editing, the students followed step-by-step the “metamorphosis” that the artist applied to the pictures by using Photoshop.
Once again Lee proved to be a versatile and innovating artist. The author of creations such as “Manimals” (photographic morphings between humans and animals) transformed one of our interns at MiMA into a cat-like creature. At the end of the day, after several post-production sessions, the creations of our artists/students were printed, exhibited and commented. It was interesting to see the diversity of the various works, and how each work was based on a different concept.
A massive use of photo editing, that through the use of computer gives a shockingly new meaning to the concept of identity, once unchanging and enduring, also showed that technology does not deny imagination, but it even enhances it.
The final session saw everyone gathered in the classroom for the group photo, the delivery of questionnaires and the attendance certificates.
Acnowledgements
In this occasion a special acknowledgement goes to the Councillor for Culture Erminia Perbellini and to dr. Gabriele Ren for giving us access to such prestigious spaces such as the City Library of Verona; we thank dr. Agostino Contò, Managing Director of the Library, for the support to this event. Again in this occasion MiMA's initiative received the sponsorship from Zevio Town Council, Province of Verona and Regione Veneto. We thank prof. Giancarlo Beltrame for his presence and his selfless passion; thanks to all MiMA staff for the commitment they put into the two days of intense work, devoted to the attendees and the author, in order to grant a standard of excellence in every single detail of this cultural and learning opportunity.
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Responsabile comunicazione: Stefania Bozzi stefania@mima.cc +39 045 6050601 Press: Michela Ferrari michela@mima.cc +39 045 6050601 Presidente: Elisabetta de Strobel info@mima.cc +39 045 6050601 Comitato scientifico (Presidente): Rosanna Checchi rosanna@fotografia.it +39 02 715939 Comitato scientifico: Maurizio Marcato info@mauriziomarcato.com +39 045 6050601 Comitato scientifico: Paolo Namias paolo.namias@fotografia.it +39 02 715939 Comitato scientifico: Giancarlo Beltrame giancarlo.beltrame@larena.it +39 045 8094823