Portfolio Chiara Menini

CHIARA MENINI

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CHIARA MENINI +393465795250 chiara.menini@gmail.com

INDEX HANDICRAFT: - WINTER’S QUEEN, headgear - POLLY PEACHUM’S COSTUME - JEWELRY SET DESIGN MODELS: -

BOHEME ASTRA, EX CINEMA TURANDOT APARTMENT RESTORATION

ANIMATION: - DI COSA VIVE L’UOMO? - THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE

WINTER’S QUEEN HEDGEAR, 2015

Headgear made with recycled materials (cloth, paper, wood, glass...) for Verona Carnival Ride in February 2015.

The concept was “The four seasons�, so I represented the Winter, inspired by traditional fashion of italian Reinassance

POLLY PEACHUM’S COSTUME COSTUME, 2016

Wedding costume with headgear realized with recicled material (cloth, gears, washers...)for the character Polly Peachum in “The Threepenny Opera”, academic theatrical costume project.

In my interpretation of the opera, the events are set in London's sewage galleries, all the characters live in a putrid and unhealthy environment, to visually highlight the grotesque and the rotten of their criminal souls.

The costumes and the make up are inspired to ‘20s fashion.

JEWELRY

Handmade necklaces in Victorian style, built with scrap metal, watch gears, reacycled materials. On commissions.

BOHEME - opera by Giacomo Puccini SCENOGRAPHY PROJECT, 2015

up: 1:25 scale sketches of the three scenes: attic, Latin district, customs on the left & under: 1:33 scale models of the set with light test

I realized a timeless collocation, with industrial and hospital aesthetics, and pipe decorations characterizing every scene. The choice of the white aseptic surfaces of the Latin neighborhood and the customs and the use of symmetrical and minimal geometries represents the ambients “outside� of bohemians’ life, the cold and schematized environments of the rich class, as opposed to the attic of Rodolfo, a poor but warm and lived room.

I got inspiration to movies like Brazil and Metropolis.

The materials of the model are: paper, straws, poliplat, cloth.

ASTRA, EX-CINEMA URBAN INSTALLATION MODEL, 2016

The model is made by wood, cardboard and papier-mache above: picture of the cinema below: sketch of the model

The aim of this Urban Architetcture project is the revaluation of a non-place of the territory through a structural installation.

The ex-cinema Astra is a rich historical movie house inaugurated in 1937, now closed for years and left in a state of degradation.

The installation concerns only the exteriors, the Veronese marble facade and the square,with the purpose of revaluing the building with an exhibition of posters that have made Verona’s history cinema.

The coil film on the top is melting in drops made by removable solid resin, to show the “death” of the cinema as space and concept.

In the square, metal benches with same shape.

on the left: 3D models of the project with the software Cinema 4D (Daniela Poli)

TURANDOT - opera by Giacomo Puccini SCENOGRAPHY PROJECT, 2017

3D models made in Sketch-up, rendered in Kerkythea, edited in Adobe Photoshop.

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Thought for the roman theatre Arena, in Verona, my scenographic interpretation of the opera Turandot, is based on traditional chinese symbology: yin-yang, for the man-woman dualism; the circle, perfection and sky (it also has a functional reason, to take advantage of the Arena spaces); the moon, feminility and death (Turandot); the water that turns blood, change and mystery. In the opera there is the reccurence of number 3, to which I assoociated the colurs white (hope), red (blood) and black (Turandot). The set is completed by a serie of ledwalss transmitting the scenery in animation.

APARTMENT RESTORATION INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE PROJECT, 2017

Renovation school project of a real apartment in Gent, Belgium, 98 m² on three floors, 150-200 years old. The project provides for the complete renovation of the interiors, including the distribution of spaces. The style is inspireded to factories and industry, the elements that compose it are aluminum, rough cement, gears, pipes, and large windows overlooking the sunset.

3D model made in Sketch-Up and rendered with Kerkythea.

Maps and sections realized in Autocad.

DI COSA VIVE L’UOMO? THEATHRAL SHOW, 2016

For the opera “Di cosa vive l’uomo?” realized by ABAVR’s Set Design student, I cured the whole setting.

The show was staged on June the 22nd, at Teatro Nuovo, in Verona, under the supervision of Art Director Paolo Valerio.

Considering that the show was made at no cost, I opted for a two-dimensional scenography, entirely made in cardboard and color, as well as equipment and props. To complement the "real" set, a rear-projection video backdrop, a cut-out animation depicting the environments. Black-and-white sketch scenes, rather than realistic color images, underline exaggeration and fiction.

The whole opera looks like an expressionist comic, in which characters interpret the caricatures of themselves.

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE - a tale by Oscar Wilde ANIMATED SHORT FILM, 2017

Short animation movie in stop motion and cut-out animation made at KASK - Gent.

The film represent a monologue by a student in Oscar Wilde’s tale The Nightingale and the Rose.

The puppet is made by wire, paper and sponge.

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