Fenomen twórczości scenograficznej Mariana Bogusza

• Main Author: Ewa Dąbek-Derda
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2021-04-01
• Series: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Subjects: marian bogusz; set design; designing; spatial composition; mockup; stage sculpture
• Online Access: https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/622

This article discusses selected set designs of Marian Bogusz (1920–1980), whose work is characterized by a predominance of unrealized projects. Bogusz’s artistic practice – designing, constructing, and exhibiting mockups – is juxtaposed with his clear views on the collective character of the work on a theater production and on the set designer’s role in this process. In this context, Bogusz’s gesture of creating visual concepts for the dramatic texts that inspired him is presented as a kind of scenographic utopia. His spatial compositions and their unused artistic potential are discussed based on an analysis of three projects from 1957: Karel Čapek’s The White Disease and Mother, and Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding.