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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.


• Raymond Renard

Additional information: Born in 1929 in Brussels. He became a stege designer by chance, when he produced the sets for student theatricals. Subsequently he became a professional stage designer at the Théatre de Poche de Belgique. He has also collaborated with television and other théatres in Belgium. He has designed numerous sets for opera, ballet and drama. He participated in the Prague quadrennial in 1971.






















• Andrei Ivaneanu-Damaschin

Additional information: Born in 1936 at Birlad. In 1959 he graduated from the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture. He has participated in a number of exhibitions: The First Stage Design Exhibition of the Republic in 1961, The Annual Regional Exhibition at Baia-Mare in 1963, The Saloon of Young Stage Designers in 1964, The Second Stage Design Exhibition of the Republic in 1967; in 1988 he organized a one man exposition at Piteşti, in 1969 in Bucharest, and in 1969 he took part in the 2nd Triennial of International Stage Design in Novi Sad. His most important designs are the stage sets to plays Miorita by Valeriu Anania, The Three Sisters by A. P. Chekhov, Sam by G. M. Zamfirescu, etc. At present he is at work as stage designer at the AI. Davila Theatre at Piteşti.




















• Jean-Claude De Bemels

Additional information: Born in 1945 in Brussels; a self-taught painter, actor and stage designer. He became interested in the theatre especially through theatricals at the university. At present he is becoming acquainted with various techniques of physical manifestations, above all according to the method of J. Grotowski. Between 1970-1974 he studied stage design at the Ecole Nationale ď'Architecture et des Arts Visuels de Bruxelles and received a diploma with highest honours. At present he is improving his craftsmanship in two special techniques: puppets and masks. He is a founding member of the Théatre Isocele, which is group playing for children /since June 1975/. He has designed the sets for productions of Caragiale by Labiche, La Maison d'Os by Roland Dubillard, The Penal Colony by F.Kafka, The Dragon by Evgeni Shvarts, Chronicles of Hell and Piet Bouteille by M. de Ghelderode, Moby Dick according to Herman Melville and The Minor Wants to be Guardian by Peter Handke.










• Marie-Claire van VUCHELEN

Additional information: Born in 1938 in Liege; a professor at the studio for stage and costume design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liege. She studied decorative art in Liege. Between 1957 and 1959 she studied in Paris. In 1960 she designed costumes for the Rideau de Bruxelles théatre and for the Théatre de l'Alliance. Between 1961 and 1964 she lived in Brazil, where in Sao Paulo she designed the stage sets and costumes for a number of drama productions. In 1963 she received the Prize of the Governor of the State, a Prize of the Union of Critics and a Silver Medal at the VlIIth Biennial in Sao Paulo. Since 1967 she is in Liege at the Centre Lyrique de Wallonie, where she has designed a number of stage sets and costumes, especially for The Painter Mathias by Hindemith, Fidelio by Beethoven, Madam Butterfly by Puccini, Arabella by Richard Strauss, The Magie Flute by Mozart, Love of Three Oranges by Prokofiev and others. Besides these, she designed the sets and costumes for the Ballet de Wallonie in Charleroi, for the Centre Dramatique in Liege and for Nouveau Gymnase de Liege, where she designed the stage sets and costumes for The Taming of the Shrew by W. Shakespeare. She participated in the Prague Quadrennial in 1971.








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• Daniel  SCAHAISE


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• Christine MOBERS (Christine Mobers)