Original painting:
The Enigma Of A Day by Giorgio De Chirico
Tableau Vivant:
Tableau Vivant: “Trapped”
Video:
Inspiration:
Our group started off thinking how to transfer the setting of this painting into a real-life environment. Then, we got this idea of using cardboard to rebuild everything that was in the painting and altered time to make everything come back to life again. We drew out the model in photoshop and precisely calculated out each measurement. We used laser cutter to cut out all the pieces and started to assemble everything together with glue guns. After we finished the set, we started to photograph the set we built in different directions and power of lighting, while we were adding colors to it. We tried to mimic the passing by of day times by altering light sources. As day and day passes, the city lights up itself with colors and starts to glow under the “sunshine”, creating a peaceful harmony throughout time under dead silence. What we considered the most creative part of our recreation was that one of our group mates(Amyra) became the statue in the painting. She showed up after the city was enlighten by colors and she stood there with a forever freezing position, like if she was being trapped in the time. This combination with real human bing inside the frame emphasized the real involvement and communication we had with this painting. Imaging a real person being trapped in this empty environment alone and living in this same limited space days by days, her reaching out hand held in the air crying out for help, but no one ever responded. I believe our audience can further sense the loneliness and the desperation of people living under World War I from this tableau vivant, and that’s what makes our recreation so essential and meaningful.
Process photographs:
Amyra as Statue, cropped and edited in Photoshop
Photo shot set up
Photo shot process
Gluing with glue guns
Laser cutting
Measuring and planing out
Cutting chipboard
Building process
Photographing process
Painting process
Editing process
