Historical materials 1971

PQ 1971 - HISTORICAL MATERIALS

International Exhibition of Stage Design and Theatre Architecture – Prague Quadrennial '71
Brussels Pavilion, Left Wing of the Congress Hall of PKOJF, Prague. June 8-27, 1971

PQ 71 was held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture of the Czech Socialist Republic Miroslav Brůžek, and the Minister of Culture of the Slovak Socialist Republic Miroslav Válek.

OFFICIAL MATERIALS

Statutes:           1971_statues.pdf

Evaluation:       1971_evaluation.pdf

Expenditures:    1971_expenditures.pdf

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, East and West Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USSR, Venezuela, Yugoslavia

INTERNATIONAL JURY

Denis Bablet, theater scientist, author of specialist publications and videos about scenography, Chairman of the Programing Committee of OISTT (France)

Saulo Benavente, scenographer, pedagogue, publisher (Argentina)

Margret Diettrichová, pedagogue, art historian, theater scientist (Austria)

Militsa Nikolaevna Pozharskaya, art historian, theater scientist, pedagog (USSR)

Andreas Reinhardt, scenographer (East Germany)

Agostinho Olavo Rodriguez, head of the Brazilian Society of UNESCO, close cooperator with the leadership of the Sao Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil)

Josef Svoboda, scenographer, pedagogue, Head of Design at the National Theater (ČSSR)

Walter Unruh, University Professor, architect, President of OISTT (West Germany)

Ladislav Vychodil, scenographer, pedagogue, Head of Design at the Slovak National Theater (ČSSR)

Jury Foreperson: Militsa Nikolaevna Pozharskaya

1971_jury evaluation001.pdf

1971_jury evaluation002.pdf

1971_jury evaluation003.pdf

1971_jury evaluation004.pdf

PRIZES AWARDED

National sections
GOLDEN TRIGA – German Democratic Republic (with a view towards the works of Horst Sagert)

GOLD MEDAL (ex aequo) – with special jury award for research in the field of scenography for Polish scenographers: Jerzy Gurawski, Leokadia Serafinowicz, Józef Szajna, Zofia Werchowicz – with a view towards work on Shakespearean productions.

GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY
David Borovsky (USSR) – for scenographic work for the Taganka Theater
Hélio Eichbauer (Brazil) – for the exhibited collection of stage designs
Michel Raffaelli (France) – for the exhibited collection of stage designs

SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – not awarded

GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss (Sweden) – for costume designs

Thematic section
PRODUCTIONS OF DRAMAS BY W. SHAKESPEARE – medal not awarded

Theatre architecture
GOLD MEDAL – not awarded
SILVER MEDAL – Pierre and Anne-Marie Simon (Switzerland) – for the Integrated Theater project

Honorary certificates – awarded to the architecture expositions from Finland, France and the USSR
Honorable mention – awarded to the national expositions from Japan and the Western Germany.
Individuals: Horte Carrozzino, Carmen Prieto (Uruguay), Susanne Sommer (Austria), Juha Lukkala (Finland)

Czechoslovak exposition
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Oldřich Šimáček

SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Štefan Hudák

GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Helena Bezáková

SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME – Adolf Wenig

INFORMATION MATERIALS

nominating committee, auspices, letters – e.g., in support of preservation Ground-plan of the exhibition spaces

1971_letter001.pdf

1971_letter002.pdf

PROPAGATION

Promotional and program materials, press releases:

1971_leaflet001.pdf MORE...

STATISTICS

Number of participating countries: 26
Number of exhibiting artists: 558
Number of exhibiting Czech and Slovak artists: 59
Brussels Pavilion, PKOJF: 5,300m2 of exhibition space used, Left Wing of the PKOJF Congress Hall: 4,950m 2

Installation materials: Standardized panels with white and mahogany wallpaper and own light source (borrowed from Výstavnictví a Made In), stage lights, spotlights and lighting (on loan from Brněnské veletrhy), mannequins, carousels, slide projectors. The pedestals under the mock-ups are constructed of connecting rods, painted white. A central visual placard placed in the entry hall to the Brussels pavilion.

Estimated number of visitors: more than 12,000

Tentative budget: 3.5 million Czechoslovak crowns

TEAM

Concept: Vladimír Jindra, Eva Soukupová

Chair of the PQ Board: Vítězslav Vejražka, Chairman of the Union of Czechoslovak Theatre Artists, member of the National Theater's Drama Theater
PQ Committee Members: Jaroslav Fixa, Pavol Gábor, Bohumil Kratochvíl, Vladimír Ludvík, Luboš Poživil, Josef Svoboda, Vladimír Synek, Božena Šerová, Oldřich Šimáček, Otto Šujan, Rudolf Thrun, Miloš Tomek, Marie Vančurová, Ladislav Vychodil

General Commissioner: Eva Soukupová

Secretariat: Jarmila Gabrielová
Architects: Vladimír Nývlt, Adolf Wenig

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