Historical materials 1987

PQ 1987 - HISTORICAL MATERIALS

International Exhibition of Theatre Design and Architecture – Prague Quadrennial '87
PKOJF Congress Hall, Prague
June 8-28, 1987

OFFICIAL MATERIALS

Statutes: 1987_statutes001.pdf

1987_statutes002.pdf

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Egypt, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Spain-Catalonia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Vietnam, West Germany, Yugoslavia

PROGRAM

1987_preliminary_program_en.pdf

1987_preliminary_program_cz.pdf

1987_program_of_awarding_of_PQ_prizes.pdf

INTERNATIONAL JURY

John Bury, scenographer, pedagogue (Great Britain)

Chavdar Dobrev, theater scientist, pedagogue (Bulgaria)

Heinz Bruno Gallée, scenographer, pedagogue (Austria)

Helmut Grosser, Technical Director of the Munich Opera, President of OISTAT (West Germany)

Marjatta Jaattinen, architect (Finland)

Otto Kähler, scenographer (East Germany)

Adam Kilian, scenographer, fine artist (Poland)

Chris Lievaart, Technical Director of Music Theater, Amsterdam, producer (Netherlands)

Rose-Marie Moudoues, theater scientist, critic, publicist (France)

Hachiro Nakajima, scenographer (Japan)

George Paro, director, Director of the National Theater in Zagreb (Yugoslavia)

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

Agostinho Olavo Rodriguez, theater scientist, representative of Sao Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil)

Joel Rubin, theater scientist, light designer (USA)

Judith Schäffer, costume designer (Hungary)

Josef Svoboda, scenographer, Artistic Director of Laterna Magika, pedagogue (ČSSR)

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

Jury Forewoman: Militsa Nikolaevna Pozharskaya

1987_order001.pdf

PRIZES AWARDED

National sections
GOLDEN TRIGA – United States of America – for best exposition

GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Yannis Kokkos (France) – for his scenographic work, in particular his design for Sophocles’ Electra

SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Ralph Koltai (Great Britain) – for the stage design for Shakespeare’s Othello

GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Liisi Tandfelt (Finland) – for costumes for My Fair Lady

SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME – Emmanuel Peduzzi, Jacques Schmidt (France) – for costumes for Aristophanes’ The Birds

Thematic section – Productions of plays by Anton Chekhov
GOLD MEDAL – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

SILVER MEDAL – Federal Republic of Germany

Theatre architecture
GOLD MEDAL – German Democratic Republic

SILVER MEDAL
Bulgaria – for the children’s theatre project “Flag of Peace” in Kyustendil
Sweden – for the project by the Norrbotten Theatre in Luleå

Czechoslovak exposition
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Josef Svoboda, Ladislav Vychodil –for the exhibited works

SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Jozef Ciller – for the exhibited works

GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – not awarded

SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME – Helena Bezáková – for the exhibited costumes

The journey awarded a special prize to Werner Strub (Switzerland) for his artistic masks.

Honorary diplomas
- Exposition from Brazil – for combining traditional Latin American art with modern theatre
- Exposition from Bulgaria – for significant developments in scenography and costume and their presentation at PQ
- Exposition from the People’s Republic of China – for a highly interesting combination of traditional and contemporary theatre
- Exposition from France – for the best exhibition of architecture at PQ
- Exposition from Cambodia – for an example of traditional art combined with modern theatre, in particular costume
- Exposition from Cuba – for an attempt at combining traditional Latin American art with modern theatre
- Exposition from Vietnam – for an example of traditional Oriental art combined with modern theatre

The jury also awarded two OISTAT awards in the scenographic schools section:
- Mozarteum, Salzburg - Austria
- Latvian Academy of Fine Arts, Riga - USSR

The jury awarded a special OISTAT diploma to the exhibition from the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands, for its original presentation.

STATISTICS

Number of participating countries: 32
Number of exhibiting artists: 754
Number of exhibiting Czech and Slovak artists: 52 (32 Czech and 20 Slovak artists)
Number of exhibits: 3,269
Both wings of the PKOJF Congress Hall: 4,450 m2 of exhibition space

Installation materials: standard-sized fiberboard panels, pedestals, mannequins. Some of the exhibition materials were borrowed from the property of Výstavnictví, Prague department stores, and the Mánes exhibition hall. Some of the specially-produced installation materials were resold after conclusion of the exhibition.

Number of Visitors: Based on the number of tickets sold the total number of visitors was 40,000 people. (The actual number is higher because of group visits sold through tourist agencies. In those cases the entrance fee was paid in bulk, with one receipt, and it was therefore impossible to calculate the exact number of visitors).

Tentative budget: CZK 5,500,000

TEAM

Chairman of the PQ Board: Jaroslav Beránek, Assistant to the Minister of Culture of the ČSR
PQ Committee Members: Zdeněk Bednář, Antonín Charouzek, Jan Kohout, Miroslav Krejčí, Jan Kristek, Pavol Paňák, Věkoslav Pardyl, Albert Pražák, Ivan Pemenec, Josef Svoboda, Otto Šujan, Vincent Švabík, Ladislav Vychodil.

General Commissioner: Eva Soukupová

Architects: Milan Švehla, Alois Tománek, Martin Troster
Secretariat: Jarmila Gabrielová
Production: Helena Albertová
Realization: Výstavnictví n. p. Praha

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