Scenarist of the exhibition: Serge Creuz
Besides the large drama and opera repertory theatres, which have existed for a number of years, several young, enthusiastic groups have been formed in recent years. They are often orientated especially towards experiments and their existence is often unsure, in Brussels, as well as in the whole of Wallon. Other groups are devoted to playing for children. A potential theatre goer, both young and old, sometimes has trouble making a choice. Of course in the large cities as well as in the country-side, because decentralization has greatly advanced. But of course the country is not very large.
Such intensive theatre life requires new space - and new theatres have also been organized. Halls untouched by the theatre and without preliminary installations seem to comply to a much greater extent to the programmatic endeavours of young groups. This increased activity clearly provides stage designers with the possibility of expression in various directions. Even if it is not limitless, nevertheless the demand for stage designers is much greater than previously.
Thus the students who graduate from the stage design studio of ENSAAV de la Cambre, lead by prof. Serge Creuz, almost immediately find employment. They often are able to collaborate with the former students of dramatic art /INSAS or IAD/.
The Belgian exposition in Prague does not attempt to show all stage design production during the last four years. Thus only a sample has, of necessity, been chosen. In spite of this we hope that we are able to call forth a general idea concerning the variability of stage design forms in the French speaking regions of our country.
- Cris Franca
Specialization: scenographer
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- Manfred Hürrig
Additional information: Born in 1937 in Dresden. He was at work in Frankfurt on the Main, Düsseldorf, Aix-la-Chapelle where he got into first touches with the theatre. In 1958, the year of the World´s Exhibition, he settled down in Belgium. After six terms he completed his studies at the National College of Visual Arts (La Cambre) in Brussels in 1961. His first décors having been designed for a professional theatre (Théâtre de Poche) were Euridica´s Hands in 1960. In the time between 1960 and 1965 he co-operated as scenic designer and graphic artist with the Théâtre de Poche. Since then he has been carrying on his profession as free-lance man and collaborates with a number of theatres in the capital as well as with the television (about 60 décors for various plays). Among others he has been at work as stage designer in Madrid, Barcelona, Paris (Wind in the Branches of Sassafras by René Obaldia with Michel Simon), in Dakar in Senegal at a Festival of Negro Art.
Exhibiting works
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: (Joan of Arc at the Stake),
Opéra National Bruxelles
1975
- Jacques Van Nerom
Additional information: Born in 1930 in Uccle; self-taught. In 1946 he became a member of the Théatre Royal des Galeries in Brussels, where he learned stage design. In 1948 he became the chief of the theatre v.orkshop; he designed and executed more
than 60 stage sets. In 1953 he came to the theatre La Compagnie des Galeries, where je designed numerous stage sets for productions of, among others, Caligula by Camus, Shaw s Saint Joan, A Man's a Man by Brecht, The New Amphitryon by Giraudoux, Othello by Shakespeare, Hadrian the Vllth by Peter Luke and Flint by David Mercier. Since 1954 he has designed more than 50 sets for various television drama productions, among them Joan and Her Judges by T. Maulnier, Caligula by Camus, Coriolanus by Shakespeare, The Trojan Women by Euripides, The Four Sons of Aymon by H. Closson. In 1964 he became a professor of stage design at INSAS. He has also collaborated with numerous other theatres such as the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie where he designed the sets for the jazz ballet Four City Blocks by Albimoor and for Monteverdi's Orpheus; for the Théatre du Pare he designed sets for Barabbas by M. de Ghelderode, Winter Lion by J. Goldman and the Ruling Class by P. Barnes; for the National Theatre he designed sets for Anouilh's Becket, The National Health by P. Hichols, The Kitchen by A. Wesker and Equus by P. Shaffer; for the K.V.S. he designed sets for Abelard and Heloise by R. Millar, Game, Set and Match by A. Shaffer; for Rideau de Bruxelles he designed sets for Lesire Under the Elms by O'Neill and Guildensterne and Rosencrantz Are Dead by T. Stoppard. He participated in the Prague Quadrennial in 1971.
Exhibiting works
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: (The Lion in Winter),
Théátre Royal du Parc
1972
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: (Equus),
Théatre National
1975
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: (Public Health),
Théatre National
1972
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: (Power and Glory),
Théatre Royal du Parc
1972
- Raymond Renard
Additional information: Born in 1929 in Brussels. He became a stege designer by chance, when he produced the sets for student theatricals. Subsequently he became a professional stage designer at the Théatre de Poche de Belgique. He has also collaborated with television and other théatres in Belgium. He has designed numerous sets for opera, ballet and drama. He participated in the Prague quadrennial in 1971.
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Exhibiting works
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: (The Magnificent Cuckold),
Théátre du Parc
1973
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: (Werther 75),
Théátre National de Belgique
1975
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: (The Wedding),
Théátre de Poche
1974
- Jean-Claude De Bemels
Additional information: Born in 1945 in Brussels; a self-taught painter, actor and stage designer. He became interested in the theatre especially through theatricals at the university. At present he is becoming acquainted with various techniques of physical manifestations, above all according to the method of J. Grotowski. Between 1970-1974 he studied stage design at the Ecole Nationale ď'Architecture et des Arts Visuels de Bruxelles and received a diploma with highest honours. At present he is improving his craftsmanship in two special techniques: puppets and masks. He is a founding member of the Théatre Isocele, which is group playing for children /since June 1975/. He has designed the sets for productions of Caragiale by Labiche, La Maison d'Os by Roland Dubillard, The Penal Colony by F.Kafka, The Dragon by Evgeni Shvarts, Chronicles of Hell and Piet Bouteille by M. de Ghelderode, Moby Dick according to Herman Melville and The Minor Wants to be Guardian by Peter Handke.
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Exhibiting works
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: (Julian of Brussels),
Théátre des Jeunes de la Ville de Bruxelles
1975, Director: Marcel Cornélis,
- Christelle CORNIL
Additional information: Born in 1948 in Paris. In 1973 she graduated as a stage designer at the L.N.S.A.A.V. in Brussels. During 1974-75 she designed the stage sets and costumes for Stravinski's Mavra, for The Shrewd by Carl Orff and for Il Mondo della Luna by J. Haydn.
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Exhibiting works
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: (The Shrewd),
T.R.M.
1974
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: (The World on the Moon),
T.R.M.
1975
- Jean-Marie FIEUEZ
Additional information: Born in 1949; Belgian stage designer who collaborates with all the main theatres in the country. At the age of twenty he designed the stage sets for the Valkyrie et the Brussels National Opera /La Monnaie/. At present, at the age of 26, after seven years of work, he has to his credit more than fifty stage designs in Belgium, as well as in France and the Netherlands. It seems that the main area of his activities at present is in Amsterdam, where this year he has designed the stage sets for four important productions, among them Wedekinďs Lulu and Panizza's Council of Love. He has
studied at an English stage direction school under Frank Dunlop, Derek Goldby and Adrian Brine. The word he is most afraid of is "decorations". His main aim is to produce a space both for the actors and the text, so as to provide a precise tone for every molecule of atmosphere in which they move.
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Exhibiting works
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Lodewijk De Boer: (Seven Ways Hot to Cross the River),
1973, Director: Albert-André Lheureux,
- Olivier STREBELLE
Additional information: Born in 1927 in Brussels. Since 1948 he has been creating assembled bronze oř ceramic sculptures. Together with Alechinsky,Reinhoud, Dotremont and Olyff he founded les Ateliers du Marais,the center of the Cobra movement.
In 1950 he exhibited his work in Scandinavia; in 1951 he received a Silver Medal at the Triennial in Milan. In 1954 he began to create all bronze sculptures and in 1956 he received the Grand Prix in Róme for his sculpture of the Bayard Horse /13 m in bronze/. In 1957 he received a prize at the international exposition at Syracuse. In 1958 he received a Grand Prix at Expo in Brussels. He has exhibited at the Biennial in Sao Paulo and in Venice in 1961 and in 1962. In 1962 he received a Gold Medal at an International Exhibition in Prague. In 1963 he began to create his first sculptures
with joints, for which he received a Gold Medal at an international exhibition in Faenze. Together with Francis Andrée he created his first mobile sculptures, which were exhibited at the Expo in Montreal in 1967. Since 1969 he is working on a project for a mobile monumental sculpture to be located in downtown Brussels. In 1974 he met with the Théatre Vicinal, for which he created seven accessory sculptures made of polyester for a production of J by F. Baal. This is a one-act play for one actor. The seven accessories form at one and the same time the sets, props, costumes and
participants in a dialogue with the actress.
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Exhibiting works
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: ("J"),
1974, Director: Anna West,
- Marie-Claire van VUCHELEN
Additional information: Born in 1938 in Liege; a professor at the studio for stage and costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liege. She studied decorative art in Liege. Between 1957 and 1959 she studied in Paris. In 1960 she designed costumes for the Rideau de Bruxelles théatre and for the Théatre de l'Alliance. Between 1961 and 1964 she lived in Brazil, where in Sao Paulo she designed the stage sets and costumes for a number of drama productions. In 1963 she received the Prize of the Governor of the State, a Prize of the Union of Critics and a Silver Medal at the VlIIth Biennial in Sao Paulo. Since 1967 she is in Liege at the Centre Lyrique de Wallonie, where she has designed a number of stage sets and costumes, especially for The Painter Mathias by Hindemith, Fidelio by Beethoven, Madam Butterfly by Puccini, Arabella by Richard Strauss, The Magie Flute by Mozart, Love of Three Oranges by Prokofiev and others. Besides these, she designed the sets and costumes for the Ballet de Wallonie in Charleroi, for the Centre Dramatique in Liege and for Nouveau Gymnase de Liege, where she designed the stage sets and costumes for The Taming of the Shrew by W. Shakespeare. She participated in the Prague Quadrennial in 1971.
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Exhibiting works
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: (The Bartered Bride),
Opera de Wallonie
1972
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: (Life in Paris),
Centre Lyrique de Wallonie
1976
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: (Paolo Paoli),
Centre Dramatique de Liege
1973
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: (The Beggar Student),
Opera de Wallonie
1971
- G. Casado
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus),
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- Félix Roulin
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: (The Penny Arcade Peep Show),
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