Floor
I
Amateurs
participating in "Puppeteer Chrudim" after the Velvet
Revolution
The
conditions for the amateur puppet theatre changed after 1989.
Many puppeteer companies, especially the larger traditional ones,
lost their background facilities and ceased to exist. On the other
hand, new, usually smaller, groups were set up and there was a
significant increase in young and more mature members, as well
as in groups that already existed. On the whole, the quality of
amateur production has improved. The national festival "Puppeteer
Chrudim" (in 2006 - already the 55th event) annually presents
the most interesting performances of amateur puppet groups. In
the puppets and photographs presented, this exhibitions offers
a sample of some of the festivals of over the past 16 years.
(Opened from January 16, 2006 till December 30, 2006) (photogallery)
Floor
II
Karel Vostárek - a portrait of the artist
(born
in Prague on 24.9.1951) From 1978 to 1985, he was active as a
stage designer and an actor in the amateur theatre Paraple Praha.
In the 1980's he worked with academic sculptor Vladimír Preclík.
He spent a year studying at the Secondary Graphic School of Václav
Hollar and then he studied stage design at the Puppet Theatre
Department of the Theatre Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts
(DAMU) in Prague. From 1985 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1992, he
worked for ÚLD in Prague (Central Puppet Theatre, later called
the Minor Theatre). He was engaged and continues to be with other
theatres as well. He has been a theatre workshop leader both at
home and in other countries, and an assistant professor at DAMU
in Prague and JAMU (Janáček's Academy of Performing Arts) in Brno.
He has been active as an author, a director, a stage designer
and an actor in the Trakař Theatre since 1988.
(Opened from January 16, 2006, till December 30, 2006) (photogallery)
Floor
III
Puppets in Jan Hlína' s graphic art
Academic
painter and graphic artist Jan Hlína (1925-1991) studied in the
artist Karel Svolinský's studio of the Academy of Arts, Architecture
and Design, Prague. From the 1950's, his graphic work was closely
connected with Eastern Bohemia, especially the Chrudim area, and
also with the festival "Puppeteer Chrudim", for which
he used to design posters and printed programmes. He did the same
for the Museum of Puppets. What is more, he designed the Museum
logo and participated in planning some of the exhibitions. His
work culminated in preparing the printed materials for the 40th
Puppeteer Chrudim festival in 1991. He died at Christmas that
year.
(Opened from January 16, 2006, till December 30, 2006)(photogallery)
