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1. STAGE LIKE AN IMAGE OF THE WORLD JE JU KW t dl T mh ell 1 J LUC AERA Le h er Lascenecomme image du monde V ra Ptackova he theme of the 1995 Prague Quadrennial PQ the search for a staging space was SO broad that it left the choice of which aspect of visual dramatic expression to focus on scenery costume or theatre architecture almost entirely up to the exhibitor And for the first time since 1967 this Quadrennial eliminated originally for reasons of space all of the sections and combined all of the exhibit sections into a single show Over the years the problems of the specificity of stage design and its exhibitability led to the creation at the PQ of a new kind of gallery artifact neither a document nor a live performance but a poetic statement about the general conditions of human existence What else in the end was the outright veristic exhibit of the USA by John Conklin at the PQ 87 in which scenic designs were presented within the setting of a stage design studio with every detail in place right down to the dregs at the bottom of an unfinished cup of coffee What else did the Finnish exhibit by Maija Pekkanen at the PQ 91 focus on but the overgrown terrain of our unconscious What else was the neighboring exhibit from the USSR Viacheslav Sokolov but a report on the state of the federation the setting for the stage designs consisted of Socialist Realist architecture c2. L ex cution artisanale des maquettes une Ee est remplace impide le robuste Hamlet de Tony Geddes d montrait le niveau lev des Een ce pays Bien que la culture th trale autoch ai sat cult i ochtone n ait commenc se constit i Ke Ge habe ho appris le catalogue de la PQ 87 elle a t d s ses Edel doleas ee ded Mica E mode de en et la culture des formes la Edi e cene grande ouverture en tant que signe de tout cela classe les cr ateurs n o z landais parmi les ru Sue de la GE d attraction de la section qu un lieu de repos pour prelerence la diversit de la cr ation devant l unit d opinion la d viation dramati de toute la PQ L Asi St i 1 i SH SE GC dies EE l Asie que dans la PQ 95 Encore dans les ann es 70 les Ja PO d deg pa Ice c tre dramatique euro am ricain et tonnaient par leurs solutions Ba eege GE Ge de scenes pour Rom o et Juliette qui transf raient l action du Se d EE GE monde superindustrialis actuel S ils ont commenc la PQ 91 tt RN ee propre culture ils ont pr sent la PQ 95 un retour leur propres sou E E d age E e sable au milieu du carr form par l aire d exposition Ce nes as unt ue du id SE pe D ne pas admirer la puret mais bien un symbole La oie Badio d part des Ge eg e E national Sumo forme utilis e depuis des si cles est l actuelle li ined fae ase od nr LE ir Le seul titre non japonais est Salom de Richard Strauss a e
3. SS Salem pour une demeure i i d Japonaise De m me dail js Eder ou dans le Baladin du monde occidental de Synge le pub DEEN Ge 5 que dans la section e meridional orn de tapis d Orient est remplac par un m isati EE BC ue eles du scenographe cor en Dong Wou Park soulignait aussi d nee Le aa ves a puise dans ses traditions savoir l harmonie le aterrestre D ai SS a s appelle Un R ve P re ailleurs le drame th tralis par ces mini maqu Les secti i P ie c Lene Catalogne et de la Finlande taient consacr es avant tout la cr ati d PQ 95 les Coetu prie ct i de la collection catalane Isidre Bravo avait pr par ode a piu pour la c r monie d ouvert d i ae ure des Jeux ol ae he d de l Exposition universelle S ville La m daille do aed c ue i EE BU Eu a dede ins Olle Carles Padrissa Peter Minshall Chu Oroz La section aum latten Wn qe que les Iestivit s font elles aussi en tant que spectacle partie du th tre Il atten Baie up Ge pas seulement de costumes les grotesques carrosses cr s par Oll t Pad agie du temps auraient r joui le coeur de chaque surr aliste E idol E le silence ettes 26 Anna Kontek m daille d argent a pr sent dans le cadre de la section finlandaise une collection remarquable de figurines pour le Rossignol de Stravinski Elle a transform les chanteurs en figurines par l unit de costume de coiffure et de maquillage par la concepti
4. as required by the statute the white maquette of the Anna Pavlova Classical Russian Ballet Theatre 1993 As the catalogue informs us the construction of this theater is currently in the planning stages Its style announces the return of socialist realism apparently indestructible The reverse face of the gulag The Swedes too cast a shadow over their image of the world in the center of the black circumscribed space of a Plexiglas cube are the handsomely arranged maquettes of thirty different productions thirty dramatic landscapes the work of the stage designer S ren Brunes Two of them have strayed here all the way from the seventies symbolically expanding the temporal element of the exhibit from four years to a whole era Situated above these layers of dramatic fates is a press whose screw slowly bores into a quarter century of effort its movement counterbalanced by the rise of four symbols on the outer sides of the cube shells a bird a bag of blood and a brain The movement of the mechanism was calculated so as to destroy this mini world by the end of the exhibition For practical reasons the press only descended halfway but this was sufficient to convey the idea of a world collapsing not only in its dramatic fates but physically as well felled little figures tilted floors ruined ceilings catastrophic upheaval Here for the first time in the history of the PQ and perhaps in the history of stage design exhibition overall time w
5. from the dramatic swerving of the verticals in Ale8 Votava s stage design for Verdi s Louisa Miller to MiloS Kar sek s phantas magorical masks to Ludmila V rossov s patch work costume designs for Massenet s Don Quixote V rossov s costumes were the most remarkable artifact of the Slovak exhibit and were among the best costumes of the entire exhibition Asia was never more Asian that at this year s PQ In the seventies the Japanese still exhibited mostly European and American drama and astonished viewers with design such as their scenery for Romeo and Juliet at the PQ 75 which displaced the Renaissance drama into a modern industrial superworld If they began to emphasize their own culture more at PQ 91 then this year they presented a programmatic return to their roots The circle of sand in the middle of their square exhibition space is not only an abstract shape whose purity we cannot help but admire but a symbol as well for it is the traditional form of the dojo the ring for the national sport of sumo wrestling This age old symbol simultaneously represents a long tradition and a starting point for Japanese stage designers The only non Japanese work represented is Strauss Salom transplanted from Jerusalem to a traditional Japanese dwelling Similarly the Syrian exhibit replaces the Irish pub of Synge s The Playboy of the Western World with the more exotic eastern atmosphere of room decorated with oriental rugs The diminu
6. de la fin du temps Et ce m me jusqu au spectateur visitant la section de la Suisse assis devant un pupitre ou repose une publication sur Faust clair par un projecteur de th tre il constituait ainsi lui m me aux yeux des autres visiteurs de l exposition dans son v tement personnel et fortuit de tous les jours une pi ce d exposition un artefact Cette ann e l architecture de th tre tait plut t invisible dissimul e parmi toutes les autres objets expos s costumes maquettes de sc nes projets divers etc a l exception de la Belgique et de la R publique tch que o elle au contraire dominait La participation belge tait exclusivement orient e vers l architecture de th tre et la section tch que y a mis l accent principal Les deux ont t r compens es d une m daille d argent Ce qui m a personnellement le plus fortement impressionn e est la conception spatiale de Peter Ruthven Hall section britannique pour la pi ce Toutankhamon la limite de l architecture et de la sc nographie ou se meut d ailleurs la majorit des d couvertes Les acteurs sont dispos s dans un troit d fil sur des passerelles m talliques en rangs superpos s sugg rant ainsi d int ressantes et inhabituelles possibilit s spatiales Egalement curieuse d ailleurs est l architecture du th atre tch que Spir la dont le projet recut d j la PQ 91 une mention sp ciale Cette ann e elle est r apparue sous la forme d
7. le r aliser La PQ est aussi une revue de traditions culturelles nous ne cesserons d tre mus par les diff ren ces entre les mentalit s nationales Les vestes ouatin es russes et les grilles satur es de souffran ces les formes si pures et l esprit hell nique des pieces expos es par la Gr ce dont l unique auteur Giorgos Patsas comptait parmi les artistes profil de l exposition tout enti re Et cette r plique d une salle de th atre rococo avec ses loges tendues de pelouche rouge et de v ritable gazon en guise de parterre qu est ce donc d autre que l ancienne Hongrie et son sang ternellement jeune avec son ambiance plus importante que les objets expos s eux m mes Auteurs Csaba Antal Gyula Pauer Attila F Kov cs J nos S ndor et Nina Kir ly L Allemagne avait pr par une liaison entre le documentaire et l attaque aux sentiments du spectateur Ici aussi apparaissent de nouveaux noms d ailleurs la PQ 95 tout enti re t moigne d un renouvellement important des g n rations La section pr sente seulement quatre auteurs Robert Ebeling Frank Hanig Hartmut Meyer Peter Schubert et cela sur deux tages Le commissaire Kurt Gerling et le sc nariste Frank Hanig ont plac en premier plan la g n ration des quadrag naires disciples de personnalit s marquantes Jochen Finke Achim Freyer Karl Ernst Herrmann Horst Sagert Wilfried Minks Erich Wonder Le style expressif de ces maitres qui mettent souvent l acc
8. to the music of John Cage Bo Holten and Christoph Wilibald Gluck The stairway the exaggerated horizontals and verticals and tbe method of color design attest to their affinity to other perhaps Craigian sources the abstract stage design of the turn of the p d e German exhibits at this year s PQ ver since they began participating in the PQ in 1975 the Dutch have alwa j choice and formal experiment At the PQ 95 they were the first and only EE the newest theater discipline lighting design Reiner Tweebeeks two models 1 4 a model theatre b Steve Kemp demonstrated the spatial rhythm of productions of Racine s Britannicus and Botho Strauss Big and Small The sight of a few spectators standing in a closed room before a silent and empty stage watching the lighting change attests to the intensity of this experience and defies theories about the impossibility of exhibiting stage design This is stage design liberated from the gned a golden horse in a red arena and Romeo the motif of actor and the text and capable of supplying all of the elements of the d j ER ramat x design of the kind attempted by Wassily Kandinsky Gordon Craig and t ee artists of the second half of our century such as Erich Wonder and his A he futurists as well as by bewegte R ume lan MacNeil Rick Fisher B Priestley An Inspector Calls Royal National Theatre London 1992 Photo Ivan Kyncl eee E aces space of the sm
9. tre d origine craigi enne Avec les sc nographies abstraites du d but du si cle Ou encore avec certaines pieces expo s es par l Allemagne Depuis leur premiere participation la PQ en 1975 les Hollandais ont toujours mis sur une 20 eee s lection soign e et sur des experiences formelles A j Apre AP ic la PQ 95 ils ont t les premi E i Te E ird pin th trale le travail du styliste en ee ieee spatial de la mise en sanos r Sur deux mod les 1 4 Th tre mod le de Steve Kemp le state Malgr les th ories qui aff e Britannicus de Racine et de la piece de Botho Strauss Grand et petit places tarissime SC E n Ke que la scenographie ne peut tre expos e quelques B O d fice DEE S c rtr Es scene silencieuse et d serte qui change sous l effet de la sc nopraphic tee EE ar gi usq eher Ge oon provient de l effet d une e toutes tique comme s y essay rent Kandinsky Craig les ituri et A de poli mg tonnamment inspirateurs utilis s s NO teur par le th tre slov ne contem i SES AME ae AA cependant du visiteur de la PQ une E ipiius EE ition de la Croatie planait l ombre path ti et la ES nore path tique de la guerre symbolis e Geer Bee e de la ville d Osijek Drago Turina m daille d argent la PO 3 een D ane cc i ur ion par la puret des formes utilis es de m me que Zlatko Kauzlari js escaliers et de lumi res bris es peut tre proches par endroits des Mente o Xpo
10. Education Project Touring 1993 Photo Viktor Kronbauer gt Hildegard Bechtler A Berg Wozzeck Opera North Touring 1993 lt lan Mac Neill Rick Fisher J B Pristley An Inspector Calls Royal National Theatre London 1992 lt Nettie Edwards Michael E Hall W Shakespeare Macbeth Everyman Theatre Cheltenham 1992 Photos Viktor Kronbauer j Inr e f 46 A Si CH S n non Banham B Brecht K Weill The Threepenny Opera Contact Theatre Manchester 1994 Photo Viktor Kronbauer 14 15 Bee ETT Cep iv i i A Zinovy Margolin F Sagan The Winded Horse The Theatre of the Sowiet Army Moscow 1995 V Hungarian exhibition PQ 95 Photos Viktor Kronbauer Reinier Tweebeeke Rien Be Kkers Jean Racine Britannicus model light Royal The aire Haag 1994 Phot OS Viktor K Vikto Kronbauer 16 Andris Freibergs K Penderecki J S Bach Credo National Opera Theatre Estonia 1994 V Latvian exhibition PQ 95 Photos Viktor Kronbauer a emm AA Jordi and Josep Castells Planas de Cardedeu Joan Josep Guillen Creativo Fridor group Joan Font The Magic of Time Expo 92 Sevilla Photo Julio Carb A Jordi and Josep Castells Planas de Cardedeu Andreu Sanchez Comediants The Fire of Celebration Costumes for the ceremony of the Games of the XXVth Olympiad Estadi Olympic de Montjuic Barcelo
11. Good bye America Et c est Boris actor 8 e D SC le document d une ceuvre r elle n e au cours de ces quatres derni res Bora 11905 ee es de la PQ la blanche maquette du Theatre russe de ballet classique Anna r alisme socialist bar i et ce que dit le catalogue la r alisation Style come back d un Re o m estement indestructible La face cach e du goulag cube en plexiglas 2 ar bauch leur vision du monde au milieu de l espace d limit de noir un PR Tu on soigneusement rang es les maquettes de trente mises en sc ne diff ren paysages dramatiques qui sont l uvre du sc nographe S ren Brunes Deux de ces ma quettes chou es des anne j es 70 tendaient ainsi j ep nelle de quatre ans toute ee EE la composante temporelle origi presse dont la vis crasai j Le fe Se lentement les fruits de 25 ann es d effort avec du sang et un cerv bien que compens l SEN pens e par la re E ds du cube de quatre symboles une coquille un oiseau un sachet mouvement du m canisme tait calcul en fonction de la dur e de ri l exposition la fin de laquelle ce monde en miniature devait tre d truit Pour des raisons prati ques la presse s arr ta mi chemin mais c tait suffisant pour donner l image d un monde dont non seulement les destin es dramatiques s effondrent mais aussi ses caract ristiques physiques Figurines renvers es planchers inclin s plafonds croul s d sordre e
12. all Slovenian exhibit with a huge mock up rock and a window with EL P s a romantic landscape somewhat similar to the Belgian exhibit at the Venice n T made an attractive background for the videotapes which were the main focus of IDIL hey gave an overview of the surprisingly inspired directorial and visual methods of contempor Slovenian t spectator ery an theatre however they also required a great deal of patience from the Croatia exhibited in the tragic shad i i ow of art i resurrection of the theatre DN its wartime experiences which the destruction and Ein g in Osjek came to symbolize The purity of form in D Et Prid d 83 designs attracted the viewer as did Do TE jc som of Bai rway ights perhaps similar at times to the work presented in the German As always New Zealand s exhibit wa like j EIL of form The quality of the hand crafted models manifested of the forms and the broad conce tion of space the New E e width of the staging space as a symbol of domestic EE E ranked Slovakia too o r S among the most remarkable personalities of the exhibition Opened the door to a new generation The architect of the exhibit Ale Votava chose 5 his own stage design for The Incident as the centerpiece of the installation The raked stage with railway wagon benches became both the center of the exhibit and a resting place for the viewers The exhibit presented creative variety rather than unity of opinion
13. architecture was almost completely overshadowed by scenic design and costume except in the case of the Belgian and Czech exhibits where on the contrary it dominated The Belgian exhibit focused exclusively on architecture and the Czech exhibit placed the main emphasis on it Both were awarded the silver medal I was most impressed however with the British artist Peter Ruthven Hale spatial conception for the drama Tutankhamen situated on the boundary between architecture and scenic design precisely the realm in which most revelations make their appearance The actors were positioned in a narrow gulch on steel bridges in lines one above the other suggesting unusual and interesting spatial possibilities Equally unusual was the architecture of the Spir la Theatre whose design received an honorable mention at PQ 91 and which appeared at this year s exhibition as a large scale model Of the projects exhibited the jury was most impressed with the reconstruction of the former E F Burian Theatre now the Archa Theatre Miroslav Melena the creator of the exhibit as well Unfortunately the scenic design of the Czech exhibit although it boasted many reputable names nonetheless constituted an unremarkable and indecipherable whole In no instance did the models and designs join with the architecture in a way that was attractive to the spectator And at long last the Golden Triga of the PQ 95 The exhibition s hi T the ghest honor was b
14. as incorporated into an ideational design as an active dramatic force Death in its various forms has always been present in the exhibits from Poland but this year for the first time it ceased to be the dominant element for it was overshadowed by a new theme the magic of the theatre space The Polish exhibit was created by Andrzej Majewski Krystian Lupa Leszek Madzik Jadwiga Mydlarska Kowal and Zofia de Ines who introduced the motif of insanity into the exhibit with her series of the metamorphoses of Cunegonde K tchen von Heilbronn Rather than showing the reality of our world the exhibit presented its magical image a space negated and multiplied by mirrors a manneristically endless construction elongated by the reflections of translucent and mirrored planes It was a matter of wandering and irreality in which the viewer in his multiplied mirror images becomes as fictional as the objects in the exhibit themselves If anyone Ges eer rule han the fatal attraction of the theatre through its irreality then the ish exhibit signe nieszka Koecher Hense j 2 i i EE y ee and tbe architect Pawel Dobrzycki is surely only The PQ has always constituted a display of cultural traditions and indeed the differences in national mentalities presented here has never ceased to delight us the Russians wadding coats and bars suffused with self absorbed suffering for instance or the pure forms and Hellenic spirit of the Greek exhibit whose lo
15. ction est il litt ralement crit Ils ouvrent ensuite des portes grises pour trouver derri re des classeurs contenant des maquettes de sc nes et d affiches La Grande Bretagne m daille d or collective de la PQ 75 Trige d or des PQ 79 et PQ 91J a de nouveau obtenu une m daille d or Le th me donn avait t clairement et nettement d montr et trait dans les mod les de sept types d espace sc nique et dans les travaux de trente sc nographes La section tait simultan ment un mode d emploi une instruction quant la possibilit de transf rer le principe plastique de mise en scene dans une salle d exposition La plupart des maquettes pouvaient tre consid r facilement de par leur haut niveau de s lection et leur imagination comme des repr sentations de sculptures libres ou de tableaux Le message nonc a souvent la m me force et la forme est beaucoup plus soign e Toutes deux sont dignes d admiration mais la diversit des diff rents styles jointe au nombre d exposants a submerg le T uS spectateur d une foule de d tails quoi que parfaits Mais attention C est de ces d tails que se n exhibition PQ 95 compose le rapport pr sent sur l tat actuel et l orientation de la sc nographie britannique Un gt Swedish exhibition PQ 95 rapport format de poche qui remplirait s il tait grandeur nature une vaste salle d exposition ia A l oppos de l unit de style des d corateurs allemands n
16. ent sur le d tail et sur l effet m taphorique ont remplac les dispositifs form s de grandes surfaces color es de cadres de sc ne aux plans coup s d escaliers aux contours aigus Eclairage en couleur La m taphore est remplac e par un certain recul tendu l gard des acteurs du texte de l interpr tation Comme si la scene se pr sentait avec un nouvel aplomb l aide de ses moyens les plus propres la couleur l espace la lumi re la forme objet de m me que l acteur dans son costume incorpor dans l ensemble plastique de la mise en scene Retour d Adolphe Appia de sa m thode Les styles personnels des participants r v lent une certaine parent les couleurs les angles les formes les escaliers en dents de scie se r p tent Le dor reflets bleu vert est une composante de la sc ne de Hartmut Meyer Przybyszewska L Affaire Danton le rouge est utilis par Frank Hanig dans Mademoiselle Julie et dans le Prince de Hombourg Le concret de la m taphore est remplac par l abstrait mais l agressivit de l expressionisme perdure et cela m me dans l archi tecture de la section Debout sur la grille de fer coupante dans les trous de laquelle s enfoncent avec succ s les hauts talons des dames les visiteurs deviennent de fait eux m mes des acteurs ils montent un escalier sans rampe pour jouir sati t de l angoisse de la descente die Treppe f hrt nur in eine Richtung escalier ne m ne que dans une seule dire
17. estowed the Brazilian exhibit s almost old fashioned installation of designs maquettes and DE di Jos Carlos Serroni who received his degree in architecture and urban design is a visual artist architect and theatre film and television scenic designer The uniqueness of his style derives from his combination of elements from all of these various professions the cinematic depth of illusion created by his spaces the multiple layers of significance of his stage constructions the postmodern SE of styles In his production of Brandao s Zero an intricate intersection encompasses the entire space of the stage in the curve of the twisting traffic lines i i and determ rhythm The atmosphere is thus created out of the clash between the romantic sweep of the ud ee and ee sobriety of the intersection itself and the unbelievability of the construction which towers above the scene is it a high rise building which boxes ora wall of theatre boxes resembling a lunii ETT SOU eae Serroni fills the stage of Andrade s Path of Salvation with a forest of metal pipes interspersed with Ser as tree pron and a few live trees This remarkable joining of abstract and naturalistic erception this ighli j P type of spatial and material collage was one of the highlights of the entire exhibition All of the spatial artifacts of the Prague Quadrennial an exhibition which i which involved the participati of forty countries from every continent will doubtless be d
18. estroyed at the exhibition s End Thus far it has not occurred to any gallery to preserve even the most remarkable exhibits in some depository much less in an exhibition space Exhibited scenic design has yet to be accepted as a field of visual art and as an important statement not only about a concret i world which we inhabit P rete theatrical work but about the e th me conducteur de la PQ 95 tait da recherche de l espace de mise en sc ne concept tellement g n ral que les participants taient libres de choisir le genre d expression plasti A dramatique qu ils d siraient mettre en valeur sc ne costumes ou architecture de cred Et GE dans le cadre d un seul et unique espace car les sections sp cialis es avaient t supprim es dans cette quadriennale et ce pour la premi re fois depuis 1967 m E par ma la priorit une seule section fondamentale P S pei ee CC Les probl mes li s la sp cificit de la sc nographie et sa capacit d tre expos e ont ouvert au cours des ans les portes une nouvelle forme d artefact pour les galeries Ni un document ni un spectacle vivant mais un message po tique sur la mission remplir tendant fr quemment vers des registres humains g n raux Quoi d autre avait finalement t la section plus que v riste des U S A la PQ 87 auteur John Conklin o les projets de sc nes taient pr sent s dans le cadre d un o atelier de sc nographie abondant en d ta
19. ge Un cadre qui devait en 1902 s identifier et s interp n trer de facon phantasmatique avec l action en cours sur la sc ne Les Lithuaniens de 1995 ont plac au premier plan l aspect de la souffrance et les symboles du sacrifice le cheval rouge grandeur nature attach une perche et pendu la t te en bas crucifix de m tal entrelac de pansements de clochettes de cuillers de plomb sur le plancher des pots aux fonds perc s La vision premi re de l auteur d une for t d immenses fleurs d hibiscus panouies blanches roses pourpres jaunes soufre et violettes s est transform e en cette fin de si cle en une rang e de roses noires pineuses et m talliques comme sorties d un tableau expressioniste allemand commisaire de l exposition Helmutas Sabasevicius Gretar Reynisson unique sc nographe et auteur de l exposition de l Islande met l accent sur la vacuit de la r alit contemporaine Il fait entrer en contact le cube central avec des diapositives d espaces sc niques et les attributs sc niques des deux mises en sc ne s lectionn es Chaise seau torchon sang Macbeth Chaise d enfant petit train jouet La Cerisaie Les cadres de l action sont des rampes sans issue l une d a roport avec des bagages l autre de d barras les deux semblent venir de la fin de la vie Je me rappelle la premi re prestation de John Cage Prague au d but des ann es 60 la sc ne vide avec une chelle et un seau parfaite du poin
20. henomenon which best defined the atmosphere of those four years than the years 1991 1995 were characterized by Romantic pathos and illusion and beware by a pseudo idyll often horrible in its results Where can we place the work of Zinovy Margolin of Byelorussia Back in the eighties and even at the PQ 91 he would have bewildered the jury as did many of this year s exhibits which were best appreciated by the visitors This year though he received the silver medal In the sixties the scenery for productions of D rrenmatt s Visit of an Old Lady generally consisted of a sketchy neutral background to the absurd and horrible action of the play Margolin however has chosen an architecture whose inner pathos befits the text As in the above mentioned play by Priestley a house has been placed into the flat empty space of the stage Here however the proportions of the house are manneristically prolonged and its realistic architecture is transformed into an irreal construction surrounded by hunters targets shaped like animals For Dunin Martsinkevich play Idyll Margolin fills the stage with towering golden figures with manneristically elongated proportions The stage design for The Secret Life of Salvador Dal is situated above the black and gold maquette of this production Are Margolin s figures leading us to Dali s world Or are we being transported all tbe way to EI Greco s exaltation The whole Byelorussian exhibit in fact looks t
21. ils jusqu au marc de caf au fond d une tasse Quelle um cible visait la participation de la Finlande la PQ 91 commisaire Maija Pekkanen sinon le SEN E de notre inconscient La section de l U R S S Viatcheslav Sokolov tait elle xs dei cnosse qu un rapport sur l tat de la f d ration o l architecture socialiste officielle fa onnait o i re pour les documents sceniques en carton Ou encore la participation de la D vaquie e PQ 91 ayant renonc la possibilit de concourir possibilit que les EXER D ul accordaient pour la premiere fois rien que pour tenter de th traliser l esp ce M eros id Ha quarante derni res ann es Cette section portait alors les signatures de Bt era Pt kov On voit na tre une nouvelle cr ation plastique souvent Ee E e dans le catalogue comme toute r alit naissante Il faudra dor navant e systema Iquement de leur anonymat les sections ainsi concues Surtout parce qu on les ntr es la PQ Op sous une forme pure Si la PQ doit continuer il semble que de telles ee po Ke d exposition d limit e par une grille Un plancher recouvert d une paisse NEU eder de ees mou sugg rant une sensation de mouill d amolissement parsem e DHEA xi i pier d c ir s de couleur anthracite image de la neige noire de Boulgakov Au m ete ON das de grosses chaussures de travail A la grille pendaient des vestes fens ee ondre Sr SE a oreillettes le visage du goulag intitul
22. na 1992 Photo archive 19 gt Anna Kontek I Stravinsky Nightingale Suomen Kansallisoopperatalo Helsinki 1992 Photo Viktor Kronbauer DE George Tsypin I Stravinsky Oedipus Rex Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto Japan 1992 Photo Viktor Kronbauer V Maya Ravn Ib Michael Kirsten Dehlholm Operation Orfeo Aarhus Musikhus Hotel Pro Forma Copenhagen 1993 Photo Roberto Fortuna Werner Hutterli Faust World Methaphor Object for the Swiss exhibition PQ 95 Photo Viktor Kronbauer 20 2 V Shigeaki Tsuchiya Chizuko Kaga Kurohemon Parco Theatre Tokyo 1993 VV Japanese Exhibition PQ 95 Photos Viktor Kronbauer Kappa Senah R Strauss Salome Kamakura Geijutu Bunka Kaikan Kyoto 1994 KR Ch x ITO ww a es UR F r gt s AA I Pee ere LE 21 DW CR KEN 2 Sab Gre Uu e Josie uidi er NU ue n v lt I Jeoug Sup Yoon Ji il Kim The Order from Heaven Opera House Seoul 1994 V Jos Carlos Serroni J Andrade Path of Salvation SESC Anchieta Sao Paulo 1993 Photos Viktor Kronbauer Jos Carlos Serroni A P Cechov The Seagull Theatre of Culture Centre Sao Paulo 1994 V Jos Carlos Serroni 5 Beckett The Happy Days Villa Lobos Teatro Rio de Janeiro 1995 Photos Viktor Kronbauer des auteurs Pamela Howard Kate Burnett Peter Ruthwen Hall de montrer aux visiteurs profanes les riches possibilit s offertes
23. ne creator Giorgos Patsas was one of the most high profile artists of the entire show And the replica of a rococo stage complete with red plush boxes and a live lawn instead of a parterre comes straight out of old Hungary itself ever young in spirit Here atmosphere becomes even more important than the exhibited works themselves the authors of the exhibit Csaba Antal Gyula Pauer Attila F Kovacs Janos Sandor and Nina Kir ly Germany s exhibit combined documentation with an sensory assault on the viewer The PQ 95 as a whole attests to a generational change and at the German exhibit too new names appear The two story installation represents the work of only four authors Robert Ebeling Frank Hanig Hartmut Meyer and Peter Schubert Kurt Gerling the creator of the exhibit as well as the script writer Frank H nig represent the forty something generation the students of highly significant c ARS in the field Jochen Finke Achim Freyer Karl Ernst Herrmann Horst Sagert Wilfried See SE At the PG 95 however this older generation s the characteristic individual E cs Si arac ge by an emphasis on detail and metaphorical resonance were replaced by Gg SS KR are colored planes slanted arches sharply contoured stairways Colored lighting i x i M by a taut detachment from text actor and interpretation It is as if the stage a oun self awareness were presenting itself through its most intrinsic means color ina ae and the sha
24. o the past elements of Dmitri Mohov s work too particularly the flat painting technique and illusionistic landscapes of his backdrops recall the styles of the late Baroque and Romantic periods Lithuania exhibited a single production Strindberg s The Dream Play directed by Jonas Vaitkus produced by Jonas Arcikauskas Vilnius 1995 a symbolist play about the pain of human beeing Strindberg himself prescribes the usual painted coulisse stage but suggests supplementing the solid coulisses with a changeable backdrop featuring stylized murals simultaneously representing rooms buildings and landscapes This is the setting which in 1902 was supposed to identify with and intersect the action on the stage In their 1995 production the Lithuanians have placed the emphasis on the theme of suffering and the symbols of the victim a life size red rocking horse tied to a pole and hung upside down an iron crucifix tangled ropes bells leaden spoons and cups without bottoms strewn on the floor Strindberg s original vision of a forest of enormous hibiscus flowers in bloom white pink purple sulfur yellow and violet becomes at the end of our century a row of spiked iron black roses reminiscent of a German expressionist painting The exhibit was designed by Helmutas Shabaseviczius Gretar Reynisson the only stage designer and creator of the Icelandic exhibit chose to focus on the emptiness of contemporary reality A central cube sho
25. on d ensemble du personnage dramatique en tant qu artefact Les draperies sculpturales or argent bleu noir et pourpres se r fl chissaient dans les parois galement pourpres de la section produisant quasiment le m me effet que devait ressentir le spectateur au th atre d ailleurs le visiteur de l exposition avait aussi sa disposition une maquette De plus l oeuvre d Anna Kontek est comme intensifi e par les cr ations contrastantes de Jyrki Sepp de conception picturale et graphique faites dans des mat riaux l gers comme l air avec fr missements des franges et des bijoux La couleur le tremblement la lumi re en opposition aux robustes formes plastiques sont comme deux possibilit s essentielles et compl mentaires de la cr ation de costume Les costumes du genre com die musicale cr s par Ivey Long ont introduit la section am ricaine sur le mode nostalgique et s duisant des ann es 20 et 30 L esprit des modeles la structure complexe et efficace des dessins et styles compliqu s des vestons des pantalons des cravates et des bretelles tout cela rapprochait les costumes du gout mani riste d aujourd hui Un humour rafraichissant semblait maner des bons vieux temps Le costume th tral a galement montr cette PO la large gamme de ses possibilit s et de ses multiples fonctions jusque l uvre centrale horrifiquement rotique de la section de Hong Kong quatre figurines en smoking cr es pour le Quatuor
26. onstructed out of paperboard Or the Czechoslovak exhibit PQ 91 which gave up its right to compete an option given to it for the first time by a new statute solely in order to reveal the space in which we had been living for the past forty years At the time Milan Feren k and V ra Pt kov signed their names to this exhibit since then a new authorship has been determined although like any new reality it is often listed incorrectly in the catalogues Perhaps next time such exhibits will be stripped of their anonymity once and for all particularly since we encountered them in their pure form at the PQ 95 and if the PQ continues it seems likely that their numbers will only increase 2 1 Tim Hatley Simon McBurney Mark Wheatley The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol Theatre de Complicit 1994 Photo Wilfred Nicholson What was the significance of the Russian exhibit this year The twenty square meters of exhibition space were circumscribed by a fence of bars the floor was covered with a thick layer of plastic foam to create a feeling of slushiness and strewn with bits of anthracite paper evoking Bulgakov s image of black snow In the middle of the space lay a pile of workers shoes and the bars of the fence were stuffed with gray wadding coats and hats with ear flaps the face of the gulag with the title Good bye America And all of this was the setting for the documentation of an actual work created in the past four years
27. ous sommes ici les t moins d une pluralit de styles faisant partie du programme L une des causes en tait d ailleurs le d sir vident hj te Ke E Photos Viktor Kronbauer 8 1 Zofia de Ines costume for K tchen von Heilbronn by Kleist Teatr Polski Wroclaw 1994 Photo Viktor Kronbauer A Leszek Madzik The Breath Scena Plastyczna KUL Lublin 1992 Photo Andrzej A John lt Jadwiga Mydlarska Kowal s costumes for Incompletion by Wieslaw Hejno Teatr lalek Wroclav 1994 Photo Viktor Kronbauer A A Giorgos Patsas Marivaux La double inconstance Kefallinias State Theatre Athens 1991 C Giorgos Patsas Dorst Fernando Krapp Kefallinias State Theatre Athens 1992 D Giorgos Patsas Aeschylus Choephoroe Amphitheatre Epidaurus 1987 Photos Viktor Kronbauer T aT Ka mi Ps e 4 D UY r n ea da ir REA A lt lt Hartmut Meyer S Przybyszewska Affair Danton Volksb hne Berlin 1994 Photo Gregor lt lt Frank H nig A Strindberg Miss Julie Staatsschauspiel Dresden 1994 Photo Viktor Kronbauer MN T ER A German exhibition PQ 95 Details from the installation Photo Viktor Kronbauer COMME NEE CR eo T EET Xo 2 vii ZE re s gt Ee IS Y 3 pant Or e E p gt STMT ru 4 D n Lp yy won eri Mt D Ai T i dp BAC d 4 9 KC A TA Yo ve gt lan Sommerwille Poisoned Silence Opera North Community and
28. par le Th tre Un symbole important de l exposition est constitu mes yeux par la documentation sur la repr sentation de la piece de J B Priestley Un Inspecteur vous demande dans des d cors de lan Mac Neil maquette et photographies des changements vue La d sint gration d une demeure bourgeoise pompeuse clair e a giorno et fonctionnant de facon provocante qui m ne jusqu sa destruction totale et son enfoncement dans la tourbi re du plateau La magie de cette maison clair e ex cut e la mani re d une sorte de r alisme roman tique d taill est d ailleurs l un des traits dominants de la PQ 95 Si le projet de plancher inclin pr sent la PQ 91 semblait tre le ph nom ne traduisant le mieux l atmosph re des quatre ann es coul es alors les ann es 1991 1995 sont marqu es de path tisme romantique d illusion Et attention d une pseudo idylle tournant fr quemment l horreur O doit on classer Zinovy Margolin de Bi lorussie Dans les ann es 80 et peut tre encore la PQ 91 il aurait d concert le jury comme d ailleurs cette ann e tant de participations qui furent plutot appr ci es par le public cette ann e il a obtenu une m daille d argent Pour monter La Visite de la vieille dame de D rrenmatt dont nous retenons les r alisations faites dans les ann es 60 plut t comme des esquisses un fond neutre pour une action absurde et horrifiante Margolin a choisi une architec
29. pe object The actor in costume incorporated into the visual whole of the e E becomes just such an object A return perhaps of the methods of Adolphe Appia it B ed da a do show a certain relationship to each other in their repetition of Ban E apes and saw like stairways Hartmut Meyer incorporates a golden color with iii Se Ge into his design for Przybyszewska s The Danton Affair and Frank Hanig uses ER iss Julie and The Prince oj Homburg The concreteness of metaphor is replaced by npe out an aggressive expressionism pervades even the architecture of the exhibit Standing arp iron grate whose openings are an effective trap for ladies high heels the viewers 3 themselves become actors they mount the stairway with no railing in order to fully experience the narrowness of the descent Die Treppe f hrt nur in eine Richtung we read Gray sectioned doors open to reveal registration cards with jumbled stage design sets of models and designs for posters Great Britain which won the collective gold medal at the PQ 75 and the Golden Triga at the PQ 79 and 91 once again received the gold medal The theme of the PQ 95 was clearly demonstrated by the examples of seven different kinds of staging space and the work of thirty stage designers The exhibit also served as a guide on how to transfer the visual principle of production to the exhibition hall Most of the works in their level of choice creativity of presentation and supe
30. re l envol e romantique du terrain la sobri t techniciste du croisement et l incr dibilit de l ouvrage qui cl t la sc ne une maison de rapport voquant les rang es de loges d un th tre ou bien le mur d un th atre avec loges voquant une maison de rapport La sc ne du Chemin du salut d Andrade est remplie d une for t de tuyaux m talliques Quelques uns sont peints de couleurs vives et il y a aussi parmi eux quelques v ritables troncs d arbre Cette particularisation cette interconnection de la vision abstraite et de la vision naturaliste ce genre de collage spatial et mat riel a t pour moi l un des points culminants de toute l exposition Tous les artefacts spatiaux de la Quadriennale de Prague l exposition laquelle ont pris part cette ann e quarante Etats de tous les continents aurons t certes liquid s d truits une fois l exposition termin e Pour le moment il me semble qu aucune galerie n a eu l id e de conserver dans quelque d p t au moins les plus caract ristiques des objets expos s et encore moins de les garder dans des salles d exposition Pour que la sc nographie expos e soit reconnue comme une discipline artistique autonome comme un genre de t moignage essentiel exprim non seulement sur une ceuvre th trale concr te mais aussi sur le monde que nous habitons et pour que l on en tire des conclusions 27
31. rior crafts manship could easily have qualified as free sculpture or painting Although all were remarkable the variety of the individual styles and sheer number of exhibitors overwhelmed the viewer with their myriad though perfect details Yet it is precisely the ensemble of these details which constitutes an important statement on the current state and direction of British stage design a statement in miniature the life size version of which would fill an entire exhibition hall In contrast to the stylistic unity of the German artists the British exhibit offered tbe viewer a contrasting agenda of stylistic variety One of the reasons for this variety was the attempt by some of the exhibit s authors Pamela Howard Kate Burnett Peter Ruthven Hall to present all of the rich possibilities of the theatre to lay viewers For me the documentation of the production of Priestley s An Inspector Calls stage design Ian Mac Neil became one of the emblems of the entire show The exhibit consisted of a maquette and photographs of scene changes in which we see the gradual disintegration of an ostentatious bourgeois dwelling festively lit and provocatively functional right up to the moment of its destruction and collapse into the mire of the stage floor The magic of this lit up house executed in the detailed style of Romantic Realism became one of the defining features of this year s PQ If the project of the slanted floor at the PQ 91 seemed to be the p
32. t chaos catastrophique Pour la premi re fois dans l histoire de la PQ et peut tre meme des expositions sc nographiques en g n ral on avait introduit dans ce projet id al le temps comme une force dramatique active La Mort pr sente en permanence dans toutes les participations pr c dentes de la Pologne bien que sous diff rentes formes a cette fois ci et pour la premi re fois cess d tre le theme principal Elle a t clips e par l nonc du th me dont les auteurs avaient inscrit en exergue la mutation magie de l espace th tral Andrzej Majewski Krystian Lupa Leszek Madzik Jadwiga Mydlarska Kowal et Zofia de Ines Cette derni re avec la s rie des transformations de Cun gonde dans La Petite Catherine de Heilbronn a introduit dans la section polonaise le motif de la folie Il n y tait pas question de la r alit mais de son image magique d un espace ni contest mais aussi multipli par des miroirs de l infini mani riste des ouvrages et objets et de leur interp n tration dans les reflets jet s par des surfaces semi transparentes et sp culaires D errance d une irr alit au centre de laquelle le spectateur devenait dans son image multipli e la m me abstraction que les objets expos s Si l on a jamais r ussi exprimer l attraction fatale du th tre par son irr alit alors la section polonaise sign e par Agnieszka Koecher Hensel et l architecte Pawel Dobrzycki n a t qu deux pas de
33. t de vue fonctionnel esth tique et s mantique Bien que trois d cennies se soient coul es depuis et que le seau et chelle n tonnent plus sinon par leur banalit la vue des paysages de Reynisson nous sentons se d ga ger l intensit du v cu et un d sespoir exprim par la pr cision des proportions C est gr ce elles si cette liaison banalis e nous frappe de nouveau Les principeaux auteurs de la section isra lienne taient de nouveau comme d j la PQ 91 Roni Toren et Moshe Sternfeld La mort de ce dernier a signifi pour la sc nographie mondiale la perte d une personnalit marquante Les projets de Sternfeld ressemblent plut t des variations libres sur un theme dramatique a une inspiration po tique pour l interpr tation par le metteur en sc ne Le cheval d or dans l ar ne rouge est destin Macbeth le motif de centaure Rom o Le Danemark a pr sent la troupe de l Hotel Pro Forma et sa performance l Op ration Orfeo Hotel Pro Forma a t fond en 1995 il renoue avec un type d avant garde qui joignait l art visuel des lements parl s musicaux et gestuels Pour la musique du John Cage Bo Holten et Ch W Gluck Maja Ravn et Annette Meyer imagin rent une sc ne abstraite dessinerent les costumes et arran gerent la chor graphie L escalier les horizontales et les verticales cambr es le mode de composition des couleurs tout cela t moignait d une affinit avec d autres sources peut
34. tive size of the maquettes of the Korean designer Dong Wou Park also emphasized the difference between the values of his culture and traditional European ones namely harmony quiet and a kind of unearthly stillness Moreover the drama which these mini maquettes pertain to is called The Dream The Spanish Catalonian and Finish exhibits focused primarily on costume Isidre Bravo the designer of the Catalan ensemble exhibited costumes for the ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Barcelona and for the gala procession through the World Expo in Seville The artists Alex Oll Carles Padrissa Peter Minshall and Chu Oroz were awarded the gold medal by the jury This exhibit called attention to the fact that celebrations as a spectacle are also a kind of theatre The exhibit did not focus solely on costumes though the grotesque coaches created by Oll and Padrissa for The Magic of Time would have warmed the heart of any surrealist The recipient of the silver medal Anna Kontek of Finland exhibited an outstanding ensemble of ornamental sculpture for Stravinsky s opera The Nightingale her designs transformed the singers themselves into statues through the unity of the costumes hairstyles and make up and through her conception of the dramatic figure itself as an artefact The sculptural drapery in gold silver blue black and purple reverberated with the purple walls of the exhibit with an effect similar to what a spectator at the performance would ha
35. ture ad quate par son path tisme int rieur au texte Il y a aussi une maison qui se dresse sur la plaine d serte de la sc ne comme pour le drame sus cit de Priestley Mais les proportions de cette maison s allongent de facon mani riste une architecture r elle se transforme en objet irr el entour de cibles de tir ayant la forme d animaux La scene pour L Idylle auteur Dunin Marcin kevic a t peupl par Margolin de figures dor es surhauss es aux proportions tir es de style mani riste Au dessus de la maquette noir et or de cette mise en scene tait pr sent le projet de scene pour la Vie secr te de Salvador Dali Les figurines de Margolin nous m nent elles dans les mondes de Dali Ou bien nous hasarderons nous jusqu l exaltation d El Greco La section bi lorusse tout entiere est en effet tourn e vers le pass par exemple une partie de l oeuvre de Dmitry Mohov remonte par sa peinture plate et l illusion des paysages peints sur la toile de fond jusqu au bas baroque ou au romantisme La Lithuanie pr sentait une seule mise en sc ne Le Songe de Strindberg m en sc Jonas Vaitkus d cors Jonas Arcikauskas Vilnius 1995 pi ce symboliste sur e mal de vivre Strindberg avait voulu les d cors peints l italienne chose courante son poque mais proposait d ajouter aux d cors fixes un lointain transformable utilisant une peinture murale stylis e en m me temps pi ce d habitation b timent et paysa
36. une grande maquette de r alisation Parmi les autres projets expos s le jury a appr ci le plus la reconstruction de l ancien Th tre E F Burian actuel Divadlo Archa l auteur Miroslav Melena est galement le responsable de la section tch que Quant la sc nographie de la section tch que bien que des auteurs renomm s y aient particip elle est malheureusement pass e compl tement inapercue au coeur d un ensemble inexpressif et s mantiquement illisible Maquettes et projets n avaient t en aucun cas mis en connection avec l architecture pr sent e d une mati re attractive Pour finir le Trige d or de la PQ 95 La plus haute distinction a t d cern e la section du Br sil dont l installation tait d j presque d mod e projets maquettes photographies Jos Carlos Serroni sorti promu de la Facult d architecture et d urbanisme plasticien architecte sc nographe de th tre de cin ma et de t l vision a tir de l interconnection de ces professions une criture un style particulier profondeur quasi cin matographique des espaces qui produisent un effet illusoire caract re polys mique des objets sc niques interp n tration post moderne des styles Le croisement de routes en pente cr por la repr sentation de Z ro I L Brandao occupe par la courbe du virage plusieurs voies tout l espace de la sc ne et en d termine le rythme L ambiance est alors donn e par la contradiction qu il y a ent
37. ve experienced the exhibition viewer also had the maquette at his disposition The effect of Anna Kontek s work was further intensified by the contrasting creations of Jyrki Seppa whose much more painterly work makes use of airy materials and the restiveness of fringes and jewels The works of the two Finish artists presented us with two complementary possibilities in costume design color line vibration and light on the one hand and robust sculptural shapes on the other William Ivey Long s costumes for musicals infused the manifestly American exhibit with a seductive nostalgia for the twenties and thirties The wittiness of the designs and the effective composition in the complex designs of jackets shirts pants neck ties and bow ties were perhaps more indicative of today s mannerist tastes but the humor seemed to waft refreshingly from the well springs of the good old days At this year s PQ as in other years theatre costume displayed the wide range of its possibilities and possible functions right up to the horror erotic centerpiece of the Hong Kong exhibit four tuxedoed figures for the Quartet for the End of Time At the other end of the scale the Swiss installation incorporated the viewer himself into the exhibit seated before a counter with a publication about Faust illuminated by a theater footlight he becomes in his random everyday clothes something of an exhibit or artefact for the other viewers This year theatre
38. wing slides of various stage designs is connected to the stage symbols of two selected productions a chair a bucket and a rag for Macbeth and a child s chair and toy train for The Cherry Orchard Both settings are blank platforms airport like with luggage and delays evoking life s end I am reminded of John Cage s first performance in Prague in the early sixties on an empty stage with nothing but a ladder and a bucket then such a setting representeded perfection of function aesthetics and meaning Three decades later the bucket and ladder no longer have the capacity to surprise us except perhaps by their banality yet the intensity of experience in Reynisson s landscapes the sense hopelessness in the precision of the proportions suddenly re invest the banal combination with expressive power The central designers of the Israeli exhibit were once again as at the PQ 91 Roni Toren and Moshe Sternfeld whose passing deprived international stage design of an important figure Sternfeld s designs look more like free variations on dramatic themes or poetic inspirations for the 4 director s interpretation Macbeth is assi the centaur Denmark was represented by the Hotel Pro Forma s Operation Orfeo Hotel Pro Forma was founded in 1995 and comes out of the type of avant garde which combines visual art with elements of speech music and movement Maja Ravn and Annette Meyer proposed an abstract stage design costumes and choreography
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