The main purpose of stage design, as an art which expresses the world by creating images of life's fragments, is at present fulfilled above all when scenographie approaches are defined by the specific status of stage design within the framework of the fine arts.
If we carefully study various stage design concepts, in the same way as other creative work by artists in other areas of the fine arts are studied, we can discover this basic approach in the most unexpected manner by which everything surrounding us is formed, whether it should be a street, a shop, a museum, an interior decoration or architecture outdoors. And it is precisely this specific and unique approach which we find in the work of some stage designers who by carrying out a synthesis, in fact create their own, new world. It is an approach which cannot be learnt, an approach which the artist is born with and which comes into its own at the moment of maturity, when the creator acquires his or her own artistic profile, his or her own „manuscript".
The work exhibited in our exposition has been subjected to these criteria; it is testimony to the above indicated approach to stage designs. We find a specific scenographical approach in the theatrical architecture and stage designs of Paul Bortnovski and Liviu Ciulei, we encounter it also in the stage designs of Vasile Rotaru and Ion Popescu-Udriste, as well as the costume designs by Doina Levinta, the buildings of Viorel Penisoará and Romulus Fenes, the scenography of Emilia Jivanov and Dan Jitianu.
If we attempt to newly define the meaning of specifically scenographie approaches, which we consider to be the indispensable prerequisite for the creation of dramatic action, then we come to the conclusion that the theatre of the future requires a new type of „stage director and designer", who creates the atmosphere of the production, who strives through dramatic structure towards an ideal and organic interpretation of the form and content of the production to achieve the natural expression of the whole creative team, based on the ideas of the play’s
text. It is the correctly interpreted structure of a dramatic work which accepts stage design elements as prerequisite, which creates the conditions for a valuable work of art. Thus in the future stage directors will strive for the implementation of an „universal stage structure", subordinated to the purposeful development of dramatic effect
- Dan Jitianu
Additional information: Born in 1940 in Ploeşti. Studied architecture at the Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest and completed studies there in 1962. He acts as stage designer in theatre and film, yet he is at work also in the field of architecture, industrial aesthetics, interior decoration and furniture. He is in the employ of ťihe stage design section at the N. Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts. His most important designs are stage sets to Rosmersholm and The Ghosts by H. Ibsen and to some plays by various Rumanian authors. At present he is at work as stage designer and architect at the Lucia Sturdza Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest.
- Mihail Madescu (Mihai Madescu)
Dridu
Additional information: Born in 1937; he studied stage design at the N. Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest. He participated in various exhibitions of graphics both at home and abroad /in Iraq, Syria, Libanon/ and in stage design exhibitions held in Bucharest /1964, 1967, 1971, 1976/, in Novi Sad /1972, 1975, 1978/ and in the Prague Quadrennial in 1971 and in 1975. Among his foremost designs are the sets and costumes for Ghelderode' s Fle- mish Visions, Goldsmith´s The Night of Embroilment, Racine' s Britannicus, Beaumarchais' The Wedding of Figaro, Brecht´s The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Life of Galileo, Arden' s Sergant Musgrave' s Dance, Mrozek' s The Exiles, Zindel' s The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Schiller's Don Carlos and for the plays of Rumanian authors such as L. Blaga, E. Oproiu, E. Covali, P. Anghel and others.
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- Ion Popescu-Udrişte
Additional information: Born 1929 in Vladila Olt. Stage and costume designer at the Comedy Theatre in Bucharest.
Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest.
- Theodor Ciupe
Additional information: Born in 1933 in Constanta. Studied at the N. Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts. Since 1958 ne is at work as scenic designer, special line of costume desing, at the National Theatre in Cluj. In 1968 he made a three monts' educational trip to the Federal Republic of Germany. He has participated in a number of scenic desing exhibitions in Bucharest and Cluj. He has been at work as graphic artist (theatre posters), too. His most important works are costume designs for the protagonists of plays by Pirandello, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and so on. At present he acts as stage designer of the National Theatre in Cluj.
Exhibiting works
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W. Shakespeare: (The Hamlet),
Magyár Szinház
1987, Director: T. Gábor,
- Doina Levinta
* 1939, Bucharest
Additional information: Studied architecture at the College of Technology in Bucharest. She took part in some exhibitions of graphic arts (1961) and of scenic design (1964 and 1966). She is at work as scenic designer at the TV Studio, the Animafilm and at various theatres. Her most important designs are stage sets to plays by Shakespeare (Othello), Moliēre (The Impromptu of Versailles), Ionesco (The New Tenant), Wilde (An Ideal Husband), Důrrenmatt (An Autumn Party), Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author), Faulkner (The Smoke), Caragiale (A Stormy Night), Oproiu (I Am Not the Eiffel Tower) and to many others. She concerns herself also with graphic arts (theatre posters and book illustrations).
Is a known name in the contemporary Rumanian scenography. She has received an Award in 1994 for her excellent activity. Numerous exhibitions in Rumania and abroad (Paris, Monte Carlo, London) known as well as fashion designer.
In 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1995, she participated in the PQ.
- Vasile Rotaru
Additional information: Born in Cenade (Alba). Professor of stage design at the N. Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest. He cooperates with the most important Rumanian theatres. He participated in the PQ in 1971, 1975 and in 1979.
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- Traian Niţescu
Additional information: Born 1924 in Băceşti Roman. Stage and costume designer, professor at the Art Institute
Titu Maiorescu in Bucharest. He exhibited in the 1971,1975,1979,1983 and 1987 Prague
Quadrennial.
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- Onisim Colta
* 1952
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: He graduated from Academy of Visual Arts - Cluj-Napoca. Since 1976 he has been working as stage designer at the State Theatre in Arad.
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- Romulus FENEŞ
Additional information: Born 1937 in Oradea. Since 1965 he has been working as stage designer at the National
Theatre in Tiirgu Mureş. He took part in the 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1987 Prague
Quadrennial.
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- Emilia JIVANOV
Additional information: Born in 1938. She has been working as a stage designer at the National Theatre in Timişoara. She participated in the PQ in 1979.
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Exhibiting works
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W. Shakespeare: (King Lear),
Teatrul naţional Timişoara
1987, Director: I. Epemia,
- lulia Mantoc (Iuliana Mantoc)
* 1951
Additional information: She graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest. She now workes as a set designer for the Central Studio of Rumanian Television in Bucharest. Among her foremost designs are the sets for The Death of a Salesman by A. Miller,and for the plays of several Rumanian playwrights, as well as the costumes for plays by Shakespeare, Pirandello, Brecht, Mrozek and also various Rumanien playwrights. In 1978 she received a stage design scholarship from the Union of Rumanian Artists.She participated in a stage design exhibition in Bucharest in 1976 and in the Prague Quadrennial in 1975. From 1986 she works as costume designer in Theatre Sturza Bulandra in Bucharest.
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- Viorel STEGARU PENIŞOARA
Additional information: Born in 1934 in Duda-Vaslui. Illustrator, graphic artist and painter. He has been working as stage designer at the National Theatre in Craiova. He participated in the PQ in 1971, 1975 and in 1979.
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