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Created in cooperation with Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici festival in Vicenza and Change PerformingArts.

Curator: Lech Stangret

Lets The Artists Die, deriving it’s title from the famous theatrical piece created by Tadeusz Kantor, is an exhibition presented in Vicenza, on the occasion of the 71st edition of Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici festival in Vicenza.

This show provides a unique possibility to explore the esthetics and working style of Tadeusz Kantor, by bringing together the artist’s drawings, sketches and notes as well as the video recordings his theatrical spectacles. The works, presented in the exhibition in AB23, include over 100 drawings made by the artist from 1937 to 1990, most of which regard the ground-breaking theatre performances, such as: The Dead Class (1975), Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), Lets The Artists Die (1985).

The drawing was always with Kantor – both as a sketch for theatre or paining, and as a way for making notes, in life. These are often notations of the first ideas, designs, spatial arrangements of a scene and technical solutions. They worked as a way of developing and testing ideas, until they finally reached, or not, being used on a stage. Other drawing are autonomous artworks, yet in the same unique style.

Public programme

3rd of October, 6.30
exhibition opening

6th of October, 5pm
Salone di Palazzo Chiericati
Tadeusz Kantor and Robert Wilson: a secret affinity
Meeting with Lech Stangret (curator and art historian, Cricot2 actor)
Georges Banu (theatre historian and critic)
Robert Wilson: Memory / Loss
screening of a video-film by Roberto Andò

13th of October 6 pm
Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor: witnesses
Meeting with Giovanni Battista Storti and Marzia Loriga
(actors of Tadeusz Kantor’s Cricot2 Theatre)

19th of October 6.30 pm
Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor: witnesses
Meeting with Ludka Ryba (actor of Tadeusz Kantor’s Cricot2 Theatre)

 

Spazio AB23
Contrà Sant’Ambrogio, 23, 36100 Vicenza VI, Italy

The exhibition is a part of
Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza
Conversazioni 2018
71° Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici

www.tcvi.it/it/classici/spettacoli/2018/tadeusz-kantor-crepino-gli-artisti/

 

PRESS MATERIALS in English

 

The project is supported by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage on the Republic of Poland and Instituto Polacco Roma.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990), regista, teorico, pittore e scenografo, è stato uno degli artisti più originali e incisivi del nostro tempo, cui si deve l’innovazione più significativa della idea di teatro nel secondo Novecento.
La contaminazione dell’arte scenica con arti visive, musica e la danza si è imposta nella pratica teatrale contemporanea a partire dagli spettacoli ormai storici di questo maestro della scena contemporanea.
Questa mostra/evento offre la straordinaria possibilità di far conoscere la poetica di Tadeusz Kantor attraverso i suoi disegni originali e la documentazione in video dei suoi spettacoli più significativi.

OLTRE LA MOSTRA

3 ottobre ore 18.30
inaugurazione

6 ottobre ore 17.00 – Salone di Palazzo Chiericati
Tadeusz Kantor e Robert Wilson: una segreta affinità
Incontro con Lech Stangret (curatore e storico dell’arte), Georges Banu (studioso e critico teatrale)
a seguire
Robert Wilson: Memory / Loss
proiezione del video-film di Roberto Andò

13 ottobre 18.00
Il Teatro di Tadeusz Kantor: testimonianze
Incontro con Giovanni Battista Storti e Marzia Loriga (attori del Teatr Cricot 2 di Tadeusz Kantor)

19 ottobre 18.30
Il Teatro di Tadeusz Kantor: testimonianze
Incontro con Ludka Ryba (attrice del Teatr Cricot 2 di Tadeusz Kantor)