The puppet: Instrument for the stage.
Silvana| N° d'inventaire | 29647 |
| Format | 24.5 x 30 |
| Détails | 176 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Milan, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836653683 |
Metamorphose, stylize, abstract, mechanize or animalize… but also flutter, tear to pieces, disarticulate or melt: the puppet opens or extends innumerable aesthetic and scenic possibilities. To continue the musical metaphor of the puppet, instrument or family of instruments, is to examine its tessitura, its timbre, its palette or its repertoire… it is also and above all to question its possibilities of orchestration or interpretation, and its powers of exploration: what does it allow to play, to conceive, to imagine, to express? In this game by “delegation” or by “interposed object”, the instrumental relationship is reciprocal, reversible. It is a relationship that is established between the animator, the puppet and the spectator; between the body, the matter and the word; between the object, the world and thought.
Ten puppet specialists and some twenty artists question the aesthetic possibilities of the contemporary puppet scene, from the avant-gardes of the 1920s to today: its repertoires and spaces, its bodies – that of the puppet, that of the performer –, its dramaturgies, its relationships with other arts. The question of sound and voice is approached through the prism of opera; that of gesture and movement through focuses on the circus and dance.
Numerous stage photographs and around a hundred performance notes allow us to place the puppet objects presented in the exhibition in their scenic and dramaturgical context. The puppet, an instrument for the stage , at the National Center for Costume and the Stage, from May 27 to November 6, 2023: more than two hundred pieces, from heritage collections (and in particular from the National Library of France, the International Institute of Puppetry, the OSZMI – Hungarian Theater Museum and the Dubuffet Foundation) or loaned by contemporary artists and companies.
Metamorphose, stylize, abstract, mechanize or animalize… but also flutter, tear to pieces, disarticulate or melt: the puppet opens or extends innumerable aesthetic and scenic possibilities. To continue the musical metaphor of the puppet, instrument or family of instruments, is to examine its tessitura, its timbre, its palette or its repertoire… it is also and above all to question its possibilities of orchestration or interpretation, and its powers of exploration: what does it allow to play, to conceive, to imagine, to express? In this game by “delegation” or by “interposed object”, the instrumental relationship is reciprocal, reversible. It is a relationship that is established between the animator, the puppet and the spectator; between the body, the matter and the word; between the object, the world and thought.
Ten puppet specialists and some twenty artists question the aesthetic possibilities of the contemporary puppet scene, from the avant-gardes of the 1920s to today: its repertoires and spaces, its bodies – that of the puppet, that of the performer –, its dramaturgies, its relationships with other arts. The question of sound and voice is approached through the prism of opera; that of gesture and movement through focuses on the circus and dance.
Numerous stage photographs and around a hundred performance notes allow us to place the puppet objects presented in the exhibition in their scenic and dramaturgical context. The puppet, an instrument for the stage , at the National Center for Costume and the Stage, from May 27 to November 6, 2023: more than two hundred pieces, from heritage collections (and in particular from the National Library of France, the International Institute of Puppetry, the OSZMI – Hungarian Theater Museum and the Dubuffet Foundation) or loaned by contemporary artists and companies.