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BELGIE

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Serge Creuz

Additional information: Born in 1924 in Brussels. Studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and at the National College of Architecture and Decorative Arts (La Cambre). He parts his activities between France and Belgium. He acts as assistant at the Marigny Théâtre in Paris under J. L. Barrault, Christian Bérard and Felix Labisse. He designed settings for Préverťs and Queneau´s performances at the cabaret of Saint-Germain-des-Prés „La Rose rouge". He is the author of sets and puppets for the puppet-show Les Marionnettes des Champs-Elysées, and acts as stage designer of the Comédie de l'Ouest since its foundation in 1949. He is the author of a number of drama, ballet, music-hall performances and of animated designs for the television (R.T.B, and B. R. T.),of posters, illustrations and paintings. He is professor of costume and stage desing a the National College of Architecture and Visual Arts (La Cambre) in Brussels. He acts also as professor at the College of Dramatic Art of the National Theatre in Strasbourg.
• 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.

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