OPUS MAGNUM in Live Performers Meeting XX Edition 2019. ROMA (Italy) / animation Mask

Opus magnum or Great Work is an alchemical term for the process of creating the so-called philosopher's stone, attributed to ancient chemical processes that would allow the transformation of lead into gold. Alchemy as a proto-science, also sought to cure all diseases and discover the source of eternal youth. In its essence, Alchemy would be a symbolic philosophical school that takes the resource of allegory to establish its objectives. Therefore, to transform lead into gold means to evolve the human being from its first stage, natural, to another spiritually superior through the teachings left by Masters or Gods superior in the past. In a hermetic way, the alchemical treatises give instructions to obtain the greatest wisdom that a human being can achieve, being the spiritual understanding among human beings some of its most important points for the final transmutation. My visual work tries to show these ancient postulates through an allegorical and metaphorical treatment, using animation as a method of self-interpretation. "At the beginning we unite, then we corrupt, we dissolve what has been corrupted, we purify what has been dissolved, we gather what has been purified and we solidify it. In this way man and woman become one. " (brief treatise on the Philosopher's Stone, 1778) 【 Site and Building Information 】 MATTATOIO Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, 00153. Rome ■ Ex Mattatoio website: https://www.mattatoioroma.it Google Map (https://bit.ly/2YhLKW3) Building Size：24 m(Wide)× 15 m(Height) ■ Visual: Roman Gomes ■ Music: Eze Canosa ■ Produced by：LPM Audio Visual Performing Artists Meeting ■ Assisted by: Flyer new media with the help of Video Mapping Mexico, Linux Club and FLxER.net. ■ LPM website: https://liveperformersmeeting.net ■ LPM Artistic grid: https://bit.ly/2Kichi7 ■ LPM Opus Magnum schedules: https://bit.ly/2J2B6Og ■ Opus Magnum website: https://bit.ly/2QBsEHE