Historical materials 1979
PQ 1979 - HISTORICAL MATERIALS
International Exhibition of TheatreDesign and Theatre Architecture – Prague Quadrennial '79
Brussels Pavilion and Pergola PKOJF, Prague; June 6 – July 1, 1979
Wallenstein Riding Hall, Prague; June 1 – July 1, 1979
PQ 79 was held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture of the CSR Milan Klusák and the Minister of Culture of the SSR Miroslav Válek.
OFFICIAL MATERIALS
Statutes 
1979_statutes001.pdf
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Egypt, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, USSR, West Germany, Yugoslavia
PROGRAM
INTERNATIONAL JURY
Denis Bablet, theater scientist (France)
Helmut Grosser, Technical Director of the Munich Opera, Chairman of OISTT (West Germany)
Henryk Jurkowski, theoretician, puppet specialist, publicist, Chairman of UNIMA (Poland)
Otto Kähler, scenographer (East Germany)
Paul Mignot, theater architect (Belgium)
George Paro, director, Director of the National Theater in Zagreb (Yugoslavia)
Militsa Nikolaevna Pozharskaya, theoretician, art historian, pedagogue (USSR)
Agostinho Olavo Rodriguez, representative of the Sao Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil)
Joel Rubin, theoretician, theater technician, Chairman of OISTT (USA)
Josef Svoboda, scenographer, Head of Design at the Czech National Theater (ČSSR)
Ladislav Vychodil, scenographer, Head of Design at the Slovak National Theater (ČSSR)
Jury Foreperson: Militsa Nikolaevna Pozharskaya
PRIZES AWARDED
National sections
GOLDEN TRIGA –Great Britain – for the high artistic standard of the entire exposition
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Horst Sagert (GDR)
SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Eduard Kochergin (USSR), Paul van den Berg (Netherlands)
GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Teimuraz Ninua (USSR)
The international jury awarded a SPECIAL SILVER MEDAL to the exposition from the Federal Republic of Germany for the inventive search for new expressive forms in scenography
Thematic section – Puppetry
GOLD MEDAL – exposition from Poland
SILVER MEDAL – Ivan Koós (Hungary); František Vítek (ČSSR)
Theatre architecture
GOLD MEDAL – Belgium
SILVER MEDAL – Federal Republic of Germany
Honorary diplomas
Holland – for the overall concept and realization of its exposition
Belgium – for a collection of theatre posters
Italy – for a collection of posters from puppet theatres
The jury awarded special recognition to Switzerland – for a presentation of the work of Adolphe Apia, a leading pioneer of modern scenography
Czechoslovak exposition
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – not awarded
SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Vladimír Suchánek, Jan Vančura
GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Margita Polónyová
SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME – Stanislava Vaníčková
INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS
PROPAGATION
promotional and program materials, press releases
PHOTOS
STATISTICS
Number of participating countries: 27
Number of exhibiting artists: 705
Number of exhibiting Czech and Slovak scenographers: 109
Brussels Pavilion, PKOJF: 5,300 m2 of exhibition space
Pergola (for the Scenographic Schools Section): 300 m2 of exhibition space
Wallenstein Riding Hall: 860 m2 of exhibition space
Installation materials: fiberboard with and without fill 2.5m x 1m, panels with textile fill – all from the equipment store of Výstavnictví; special panels borrowed from DAMU; modular platforms, pedestals, mannequins, stage lights, projectors, carousels – all acquired in the form of loans from theatres, department stores, and others.
Number of visitors: 30,283 (daily average of 1,165 people)
Tentative budget: 5 million crowns.
TEAM
Chairman of the PQ Board: Josef Švagera, 1st Assistant to the Minister of Culture CSR
Vice-Chairman of the PQ Board: Miroslav Kaizr, Head of Department of Art, Ministry of Culture CSR
PQ Commitee Members: Ladislav Ballek, Karel Bárta, Jarmila Konečná, Bohumil Kratochvíl, Štefan Krivošík, Zdeněk Míka, Andrej Nemlaha, Věkoslav Pardyl, Anton Sloboda, Adolf Svoboda, Josef Svoboda, Ladislav Vychodil
General commissioner: Eva Soukupová
Promotion Committee Members: Antonín Dvořák, Olga Jánská, Věra Lebedová, Jiří Vitula
Architect and designer: Miroslav Mašek
Secretary: Jarmila Gabrielová
Production: Helena Tomšová
Realization: Výstavnictví N. P. Praha