Historical materials 1991
PQ 1991 - HISTORICAL MATERIALS
International Exhibition of Theatre Design and Theatre Architecture – Prague Quadrennial '91
Palace of Culture, Prague, June 10-30, 1991
Held under the auspices of the President of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Vaclav Havel.
OFFICIAL MATERIALS
1991_rules001.pdf
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Syria, South Korea, Spain-Catalonia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia
PROGRAM
INTERNATIONAL JURY
Arnold Aronson, theater scientist, theater historian, pedagogue (USA)
Eric Alexander, theater scientist, historian (the Netherlands)
Marjatta Jaatinen, architect, pedagogue (Finland)
Yannis Kokkos, scenographer (France)
Iván Koós, scenographer, fine artist (Hungary)
Jurij Kovalenko, theater scientist, critic (Russia)
Marta Lacombe de Goes de Vasconcelos, theoretician, theater critic (Brazil)
Miroslav Melena, scenographer, architect, pedagogue (Czech and Slovak Federal Republic)
Hachiro Nakajima, scenographer (Japan)
George Paro, Director of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb (Croatia)
Jan Zavarský, scenographer, pedagogue (Czech and Slovak Federal Republic)
Jury Foreman: Arnold Aronson
PRIZES AWARDED
National sections
GOLDEN TRIGA – Great Britain – for the high artistic value of the entire exposition
HONORABLE MENTION – Spain-Catalonia – for a national exposition showing the spiritual vitality of Catalan theatre
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Mirjam Grote-Gansey (Netherlands) – for the depth and clarity of the multifaceted work on display
SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Alain Chambon (France), Roni Torén (Israel)
GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – not awarded
SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME – Vera Marzoto (Italy)
HONORABLE MENTION – COSTUME – Byoung Bok Lee (Korea) – for the exhibited works
Thematic sections - Productions of operas by W. A. Mozart
GOLD MEDAL
- Jan Vančura (ČSFR) – for a set of designs for Mozart’s operas
- USA – for the excellent exposition “Mozart in America”
HONORABLE MENTION – Poland – for an exposition of scenographies for the operas of W. A. Mozart
Theatre architecture
GOLD MEDAL
- Manos Perrakis (Greece) – for the Teatro Technes Karolos Koun, Athens
- France – for an excellent presentation of contemporary theatre architecture
SILVER MEDAL not awarded
HONORABLE MENTION – Jindřich Smetana, Jan Louda, Tomáš Kuklík, Zbyšek Stýblo (CSFR) – for the Spirála Theatre in Prague
Scenographic schools – though not a competitive section, the jury awarded honorable mention to the section as a whole for its energy, creativity and fresh point of view.
PROPAGATION
PRESS COVERAGE
PHOTOS
STATISTICS
Number of participating countries: 36
Number of participating artists and collectives: 706
Number of works exhibited: 943
Number of exhibiting Czech and Slovak artists and architects: 62 (40 Czech and 22 Slovak)
Exhibition space used at the Palace of Culture: 5,540 m2
Installation materials: metal frames from the equipment store of the Palace of Culture, fiberboard panels, pedestals, mannequins – borrowed from Výstavnictví, department stores, and theatres. In view of the unusual space and area, many countries brought their own materials or ordered and paid for it from producers in Prague.
The number of visitors isn’t known.
Tentative budget: CZK 5,680,000
TEAM
Chairman of the PQ Board PQ 91: Jindřich Kabát, Assistant to the Minister of Culture of the CSR
PQ Committee Members: Helena Albertová, Petr Čanecký, Oleg Dlouhý, Anton Gajdoš, Jiří Kolman, Karel Král, Jana Kučerová, Miroslav Melena, Zdena Mráčková, Albert Pražák, Pavol Paňák, Eugenie Sikorová, Vladimír Volek, Zdena Vylitová, Ján Zavarský.
General Commissioner: Jaroslav Malina
Architect and designer: Jan Švaříček
Production: Petr Hájek
Realization: Lubomír Chmura - Výstavnictví Ostrava; Palác kultury Praha