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Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Maurizio Balò

Additional information: He started his activities at the beginning of the 1970s in Florence co-operating with the Teatro Universitario and the Teatro della Convenzione and the group Gruppo della Rocca. Since 1975 his work has been connected with Massimo Castri's art of stage directing and in fact all stage and costume designs for Castri's stagings are works by Mauricio Balo. In the 1980s Balo started co-operating with Giancarlo Cobelli, another renowned personality, with whom he has been designing opera productions. Later the circle of his professional relations has extended by including Cesare Levi.

Exhibiting works

• Yukio Mishima: (Madame De Sade), Teatro Stabile di Torino. Teatro Metastasio di Prato 2001, Director: Massimo Castri,
  
  
  
• Giacomo Andrico

Specialization: set designer
Additional information: After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Giacomo Andrico was invited to the Theatre Centre Brescia (Centro Teatrale Brescia) where he worked as a stage designer. Since 1993 he has been creating his first stage designs and starting his co-operation with renowned stage direc-tors such as Mauro Avogadro, Cristina Pezzoli and Monica Conti. Ho has boon designing stages for operas with stage director Daniel Abbado, in co-operation with Franco Bran-ciaroli ho works on stage designs for dramas and TV plays. Ho has boon lecturing at the New Academy of Fine Arts Milan and the University Institute of Architecture Venice.

Exhibiting works

• Thomas Bernhard: (The Ignorant and the Madman), Teatro di Roma 1999, Director: Mauro Avogadro,
  
  
  
• Ruzante: (La Moscheta), Teatro de Gli Incamminati 2001, Director: Claudio Longhi,
  
  
  
• Franccesco Calcagnini

Pesaro
Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Additional information: He studied stage design at the Academy Urbino, at the end of 1980s he worked as a stage and costume designer with theatres that used unconventional means of expression. Fed-erico Tiezzi, Luca Ronconi, the Sosta Palmizi group, Gabriele Vacis and Alfredo Arias - artists or associations Calcagnini co-operated with in the field of drama and opera.
• Pietro Babina

Bologna
Specialization: theatre director, set designer
Additional information: Together with Fiorenza Menni Pietro Babina established a group called the Teatrino Clandestino (Clandestine Thea-tre) in 1990. Babina became its stage director and stage designer. A permanent challenge for him is the imperative of a picture. The group stages texts of classical and own stage form. The Teatrino Clandestino performs in Italy and other European countries, it took part in many festivals including the Venice Biennal.
• Margherita Palli

Switzerland
Additional information: Italy. In 1976 sho graduated from tho Accadomla di Bollo Art! di Brera - Milan. Aftor sho gained her first experience rolatod to modifications of museum expositions, sho started cooperat-ing with Gao Auloti In tho 1980s. This co-operation concerned realisation of many stagings and also a big project of tho now image of the Paris Musóo d'Orsay oxpositions. Hor first oncoun-ter with Luca Ronconi In 1984 shittod hor atago design work to a now courso. Sinco then noarly all Ronconl's stagings boar signs of her scenographic invention that pay tribute to space and many times is also a guiding tool for tho stage direction. She also co-operates with Franko Branciaroli, Mauro Avogadro, Lilian Cavani, Cesare Levi. Since 2001 sho has boon tho hoad of the Scenographic Laboratory at the Venice Faculty of Art and Design, since 2002 sho has been lecturing scenography at tho Technical University Milan-Bovis.
• Motus (group)

Additional information: The Motus group was established in 1991 in Rimini by Enriko Casagredo and Daniela Nicoló. Nevertheless, their artistic co-operation started earlier in Urbino, in the atmos-phere of the Atarassia University theatre group. Special char-acter of the Motus artistic expression consists in its specific dramaturgy hand and stage conception of space. Enrico Casagrande focuses on the stage image of the performance and Daniela Nicoló on the script. Both then perform in the play as actors. The Motus group performs not only in Italy, but in Europe, and often pit their strength against famous lit-erary works (starting with Camus and ending up with Christa Wolf). They often stage their performances in spaces not originally intended for staging of theatre plays. The group was awarded a number of theatre awards and organised many workshops linked to preparation of new stagings.