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1971 » Poland » Stage design and costumes

Curator:Zenobiusz Strzelecki
Authors of Theme:Zenobiusz Strzelecki

POLSKO

The stage and costume designers we are presenting at the Prague Quadrennial 1971 appertain to the middle generation; they have started their activities in the field of plastic and graphic arts as well as in the theatrical field after 1955 the year of thaw. Today they are looked upon as masters of their craft. And in spite of it they are — with the aid of grand forms, the dramatic sense of colors, the metaphor of the composition and the structure of the materials as well as with the aid of a formative interpretation of the drama problems — incessantly searching for new means of expression resulting from the arrangement of space. This search is common to all these artists who, nevertheless, differ from one another — this fact bringing about a considerable richness of the Polish stage an costume design art. Jozef Szajna again and again creates that tragic world he became acquainted with at Auschwitz — that tattered, pierced and distressing world. He is a stage designer that interferes brutally into the dramatic work and into the actors play. In being tired with the work of stage directors imitating the life, he himself has become a stage director; hence the play-actor, the movement, the light are in his performances plastic elements just as the dramatic ones. Wojciech Krakowski is associated here with the poet Tadeusz Rozewicz, the author of the play we are presenting at the PQ 1971. The two speak the same contemporary language, the language they have figured out in the pop-art and neo-figurativeness . . . , yet just as much the language of the poetrv of our times, the poetry and philosophy of a time where the beaches are covered with rubbish, where young women are lesbians and old ladies tenderly look after the children. It is a performance that disconcerts the audience — irrespective of the apron of the scene a 1'italienne. Kazimierz Wisniak belongs to the same generation and to the same school. Recently he has been introducing into his works, being conceived according to surrealist principles, more authentic elements, in creating that way supernaturalist stage sets and costumes. The decors of L. and J. Skarzynski are in a direct connection with their surrealist book illustrations; within their stage sets the perfection of design and a special liking for the detail — that creates an unreal, but at the same time poetic environment — come into play; the properties become personages populating the scene and intermixing with the action like in the pictures of the great Rosen. Ewa Starowieyska, Zofia Pietrusinska and Krystyna Zachwatowicz are well known abroad. Their stage and costume designs excel ingenuously in color and composition; they have a great fineness as for the details that can be attained merely by women, but also a considerable masculine force as for the synthesis of the formative conception. Krzysztof Pankiewicz seems to be in vogue in the West. He is endowed with a great designer talent, but also with a vivid artistic imagination and ironic intelligence. He knows how to be poetic, yet also satiric and even perverse; he dumbfounds „the bourgeois", but he shocks the artists of the avant-garde as well. He is searching for themes in great spectacles, in experimental plays, in luxurious theatres as well as on poor stages of students' troupes. Leocadia Serafinowicz and Jan Berdyszak represent the puppetry, hence a theatre of construed personages. They lend their little mobile compositions an enormous force, being rare even in great performances of the dramatic theatres; and above all they impregnate their scenes with a purified poetry, without any aping of the life. And finailly Jerzy Ourawski, a collaborator of Jerzy Grotowski, scenographer-architect of the Theatre-Laboratory, being world-wide known. We are entirely indebted to him for that total area unity, for that sense of veracity with which he brings into effect the environment of the Constant Prince or of Faust; he creates the atmosphere, he prepares the spectator for the participation in these ritual spectacles.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

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  • Wojciech Krakowski
  • Józef Szajna
  • Kazimierz Wisniak
  • Jan Berdyszak
  • Jerzy Gurawski
  • Krzysztof Pankiewicz
  • Leokadia Serafinowicz
  • Lidia
    Jerzy Skarzynska
    Skarzynski
  • Ewa Starowieyska

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