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THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: Countries and Regions
An exhibition of a thousand theatre artists from 60 countries and regions.
SHAREDSPACE 2013- 2016
Art and research project presents symposiums, workshops or exhibitions in 11 countries.
OBJECTS
Objects and their stories – this is the main theme of “Objects”, an exhibition open to individual artists.
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Exhibiting artists / ateliers
[show all | hide all]- Josef Svoboda
- : (Tristan and Isolde), Festspielhaus 1974
- : (The Flying Dutchman), Festspielhaus 1969
- : (Valkyrie), Covent Garden 1974
- : (Rheingold), Covent Garden 1974
- : (Siegfried), Covent Garden 1975
- Ladislav Vychodil
- : (A Play of Love and Death), Slovenské národné divadlo 1973
- : (Fidelio), Slovenské národné divadlo 1974
- : (Dido and Aeneas), Lobero teatro 1974
- : (The Macropulos Affaire), Slovenské národné divadlo 1973
- : (Bluebeard's Castle), Slovenské národné divadlo 1974
- : (The Cunning Little Vixen), Staatsoper Leipzig 1974
- : (Schweik in the Second World War), Theater an der Wien 1974
- : (War and Peace), Slovenské národné divadlo 1974
- : (Snow Above the Pines), Slovenské národné divadlo 1974
- : (The Lantern), Státní divadlo Brno 1973
- : (A Man's a Man), Divadlo pracujících 1972
- : (Platonov), Divadlo pracujících 1974
- : (Orpheus and Eurydice), Slovenské národné divadlo 1965
- : (Sunset), Národní divadlo Praha 1966
- : (The Miners of Kutna Hora), Národní divadlo Praha 1970
Additional information: Born in 1920 at Čáslav. Graduated from the Arts and Crafts College in Prague. In 1947, already during his college days, he was appointed décor chief at the Grand Opera of 5th May in Prague and in 1951 art director of the Prague National Theatre. Up to this day he has brought into effect more than 300 stage sets for theatres at home and abroad. He has scored his greatest successes by his contribution to the performances of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, of The Seagull by A. P. Chekhov, of The Last Ones by M. Gorky, and among olhers also to the opera Intolleranza by L. Nono at the theatre La Fenice in Venice and in Boston. He is the author of Laterna Magica and of numerous polyecran scene variants. II is entirely owing to him that the workshops of the National Theatre have developed into a modernly equipped forge being capable of solving even the most pretentious technical problems. Apart from stage design concerns he engages intensively in an exhibition activity. His participation in the Czechoslovak exposition at the Brussels EXPO 58, at the World Exhibition in Montreal, Moscow, Turin etc. belong to his most prominent successes in this field of activities. In 1954 he was awarded the title Laureate of State Prize, in 1966 the titel of The Artist of Merit, in 1968 the titel of the National Artist. At the 3rd Theatre Biennial in Sao Paulo he was awarded the Gold Medal being destined for the best stage designer from abroad. In 1969 he was awarded the Nederlandse Sikkensprijs and the Honorary Doctor's Degree at the Royal College of Art in London
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Additional information: Born in 1920 in Háčky na Hané. He is the chief stage designer at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava and the chief of the Department of Stage Design at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 1965 he received a Gold Medal as the best foreign stage designer at the Biennial of Fine Arts in São Paulo. He participated in the PQ in 1967, 1971, 1975 and in 1979. National Artist.
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