AN ENCOUNTER: Lila de Nobili - Yannis Tsarouchis

Benaki Museum, 2002. Bilingual (Greek-English) edition. Soft cover, 22x24 cm, 144 pp., 278 color and 6 B/W pictures; net weight 620 gr.

This is the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition Lila de Nobili Yannis Tsarouchis. An encounter, that was held at the Benaki Museum, in cooperation with the Tsarouchis Foundation (4 July-23 September 2002), as a tribute to the great set and costume designer and painter Lila de Nobili (1916-2002). Lila de Nobili associated her name with theatrical and operatic works that left their mark on the aesthetics of stage design in postwar Europe. Her meeting with Yannis Tsarouchis during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly during the years of his self-exile in France, evolved into a close and lifelong friendship, and into an on-going dialogue about the essence of painting and art more generally. In this book more than 200 works by Lila de Nobili have been gathered together from the Yannis Tsarouchis Museum and private collections, as well as samples of her work in the theatre and the opera (models for sets, costume designs, etc.) and of her skill as a painter (illustrations of books, impressions of Italy, etc.). At the same time works by Yannis Tsarouchis are presented that demonstrate the artistic kinship and common concerns of the two artists. // Se trata del catalogo que acompana a la exposicion Lila de Nobili Giannis Tsarouhis. Un encuentro realizada en el Museo Benaki en colaboracion con la Fundacion Tsarouhis (4 de julio 23 de septiembre de 2002), como humilde homenaje a la gran escenografo, pintora y encargada de vestuario Lila de Nobili (1916-2002). Lila de Nobili conecto su nombre con creaciones dramaticas y operisticas que marcaron la estetica de la escenografia en la Europa de la postguerra. Su encuentro con Giannis Tsarouhis, en las decadas de 1960 y 1970, especialmente en los anos de su exilio voluntario en Francia, evoluciono hacia una estrecha y sincera amistad, que duro hasta la muerte, y hacia un permanente dialogo sobre la esencia de la pintura y del arte en general. En la exposicion se han reunido, tanto procedentes del Museo Giannis Tsarouhis como de colecciones privadas, mas de 200 obras de Lila de Nobili, muestras de su trabajo en el teatro y la opera (maquetas de escenarios, bocetos de vestuario, etc.) y de su habilidad pictorica (ilustraciones de libros, impresiones de Italia, etc.). Asimismo se presentan obras de Giannis Tsarouhis que demuestran la cercania artistica y la problematica comun de ambos creadores.

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