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Exhibition Josef Svoboda - A Czech Scenographer of World Renown draws attention to foreign
stagings of the most significant Czech scenographer
1Gallery ProstorR2, Brno Cultural Centre, 14th June - 26th September 2010
Josef Svoboda, a scenographer, architect and teacher undoubtedly ranks among the most significant Czech artists of the second
half of the 20th century. A revolutionary concept of scenography on the stage of the National Theatre and fame of Laterna Magika
opened the door to world stages where he cooperated with the top world opera and drama directors and choreographers.
. The exhibition in Brno wants to draw attention to his foreign stagings that only the Czech general public but also Czech theatermakers
are not very familiar with. The photographs give evidence about generous approach of the artist to stage space or author's or composer's piece,
they show the modern technological techniques and discoveries he used to enrich his 'scenographic alphabet' of Czech and world stage design.
We can mention his work on Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in London and Geneva in the 1970s, Bizet's Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera
in New York with Leonard Bernstein, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at La Scala in Milan, a production of Goethe's
Faust at Teatro Piccolo with Giorgio Strehler, productions of work by Claudel, Pirandello and Strindberg with A. Delcampo in Belgium,
and Mozart's Idomeneo in Ottawa with V. Kašlík from approximately 450 stagings abroad. It is not by chance that Josef Svoboda earned
the nickname of 'magician of the stage space' abroad.
The large-scale photographs of designs and executed works by Josef Svoboda are part of the document collection of the Arts and Theatre Institute
in Prague, which was created over many years of cooperation with Josef Svoboda and his family at exhibitions of his work throughout the world.
Curator of the exhibition: Helena Albertová
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