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Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Carmen Prieto

Additional information: Architect, teacher of graphic arts and the history of art at secondary school and teachers' training college and stage designer. She was born in the Cerro Largo district, Uruguay, studied painting at the studio of Torres-Garcia in 1956-1957; collaborated with the D. Quintela ceramics studio 1962-1965; between 1961 and 1964 she worked as an assistant professor at the department of the theory of architecture and in the years 1965-1966 as technical asslstant at the Institute of Drawing. She made her debute as a stage and costume designer in the Orchestra by Jean Anouilh, produced by the EL Galpón theatre.Since 1965 Miss Prieto has been collaborating with Jorge Carrozzino, working for the EL Galpón theatre, for the Municipal Theatre of Montevideo /T.C.M./, for the Theater Uno, the Theatre Club, for the Italian Theatre of Latin America /T.I.A.L./ and for the French Society Theatre. Carrozzino and Prieto have been nominated for the Association of Theatre Critics' Award, for the best stage designs for the plays of Lope de Vega, P. Weiss, B. Brecht, J. Genêt, A. Albee, M. Gorkl and W. Shakespeare. Their experimental activities in. the field of scenic space and new audio- -visual techniques have led to their 73 Days. In 1973 both came to France on a grant from the World Theatre Festival in Nancy, where they have a studio for stage designing. At the occasion of the IXthe World Theatre Festival in Nancy, in 1973, they presented The Voice of the Vanquished. They participated in the PQ 75. PQ 75.