1975 » Spain » Stage and costume design

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Scenarist of the exhibition: Francisco Nieva The National Center for Theatre Documentation, which guarantees the maintaining of artistic elements in theatre presentations in Spain, is also responsible for their representation abroad. At the occasion of the Spanish participation in the Prague Quadrennial it is happy to present the most important work in stage design of the last five years. An important place in our exposition is devoted to Francisco Nieva, an internationally acknowledged painter, who since the sixties has made an important impact upon stage design in our country; he was soon followed by Vicente Vela and Fabian Puigserver, who represent two artistic schools with great painting traditions - in Sevilla and in Catalonia. With these artists Spanish stage design has taken a decisive step forward; the integration of stage and costume design as a single and absolutely necessary artistic component of every presentation. The imagination, colours and graphic forms have become the cornerstone of theatre action, while the mobile elements of new stage designs provide presentations with a dynamism in the service of drama. The stage designs of Manuel Lopez, whose work is closely connected with almost all theatre presentations in the last thirty years and five maquettes by students from the San Fernando School of Graphic Arts in Madrid, supplement the Spanish exposition.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Francisco Nieva

Additional information: Born in 1929 at Valdepeňas (Ciudad Real Province). Studied at the San Fernando College of Fine Arts in Madrid. In 1947 he settled down for a long period in Paris; he exhibited his paintings at the Biennial in Paris, the Biennial in Venice, and in other capitals as for instance in Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, etc. In 1958 he returned to Spain and started work in the field of scenic design. He wrote essays on the plastic art within the theatre. These essays have been published by the National Centre of French Scientific Research Work in the Review of Aesthetics and in tlhe Bulletin Hispanique de la Sorbonne. In Spain he is publishing in the reviews Insula, Primer Acto and Jorik. He has brought into effect décors to plays by Ionesco, Calderón, Arniches, Benavente, Weiss, Frisch, Claudel, Miller, Giraudoux, Tirso de Molina, 0'Casey, Chekhov and by other playwrights. The Berlin Komische Oper invited him to design the settings to Cinderella by Prokofiev and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo the ones to Capricho español by Rimski-Korsakov and to Bolero by Ravel. At the theatre Liceo in Barcelona he staged the play Una cosa rara (A Rare Case) by Martin Soler, and the décor was put into his hands as well. He has been awarded the Singer Polignac Prize in France, the Prize of the Spanish Critique in 1968 and 1969, and the National Theatre Prize in 1970. He is professor at the School of Dramatic Art in Madrid and at the College of Fine Arts in Madrid.

Exhibiting works

• : (Danton's Death), Teatro Espanol 1972
• : (The Condemned of Altona), Teatro Beatriz 1972
• Manuel LOPEZ

Additional information: Born in 1925 in Madrid. He graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid. Since 1942 he has been working as a stage designer. Among his most important works are stage designs for the plays of Alfonso Sastre, José Martin Recuerda and Miguel de Unamuno. He is also the stage designer of the production of Célestine by F. Rojas, which was performed at the International Festival at Parma in Italy.

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• Vicente VELA

Additional information: Born in 1931 in Algeciras, in the province of Cádiz. He graduated from the Santa Isabel de Hungría School of Graphic Arts in Seville and the San Fernando School of Graphic Arts in Madrid. He participated in the XXIXth, XXXIst and XXXIIIrd Biennale in Venice, the Biennale in Sao Paulo and in exhibitions held in Brussels, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna, Berlin, Lisabon, New York and elsewhere. He was named the artistic director of the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 63 in Mexico. In Madrid he has collaborated with the Testimonio 70 group. He has received the Ottrano D'Argento International Prize, The International Europahaus Prize in Vienna, the SER Prize and the National Drawing Award.

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Exhibiting works

• : (The Foundation), Teatro Figaro 1974
• : (An Edict of Grace), Teatro Maria Guerrero 1974
• Fabià Puigserver

* 1938 - 1991
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: Dead 1991 in Barcelona. Scenographer and author of the concept of the project. ln 1976 cofounder of the Teatre Lliure where he made stage and costume design and often also assumed the stage management. He was exhibited at the PQ in 1987, 1991, 1995.

Exhibiting works

• : (Peace), Teatro Espanol 1970
• : (Miss Julia), Teatro Marquina 1973
• : (Cock-a-Doodle Dandy), Teatro Comedia 1974