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Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Luciano Damiani

Additional information: Born in 1923 in Bologna. After graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts he began to collaborate with the Bologna University Theatre Center and with a number of theatre companies. He began to work for the Milan Piccolo Teatro on a permanent basis and since 1952 has done a number of stage designs working with director Giorgio Strehler. At the same time he also collaborated with other outstanding Italian directors and designed for various opera theatres /Teatro alla Scala in Milan, The State Opera in Vienna, the Saltzburg Festival/. His stage designs make specific use of light through which he achieves a special atmosphere, coinciding with the nature of the play. He has received numerous prizes for his stage designs. In 1963 he was elected to replace Caspar Neher at the Chair of Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1967 the Museum of Modern Art in Leverkusen in the Federal Republic of Germany organised an independent exhibition of his stage designs; in 1968 he participated in Skené 68, the first meeting of stage designers, held in Home; in 1971 he participated in an international exhibition of the drama theatre called The Stage as a Human Forum, organised by the New Berlin Artistic Society /Neuer Berliner Kunstverein/. He has designed the reconstruction of the Gerolamo Theatre in Milan and the stage of the Arena in Verona. His design of a stage and mobile auditorium and other facilities for the New Theatre at Trieste are the result of the most progressive and modern contemporary trends. At present he lives and works in Rome.

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Exhibiting works

• : (Rape from the Seraglio ), Altes Schauspielhaus 1965
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
• Isabel Nielen

Specialization: lighting designer, coaching