{"id":9149,"date":"2012-04-12T08:25:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slogi.si\/dogodki\/alenka-bartl-costume-designer\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:49:55","slug":"alenka-bartl-costume-designer","status":"publish","type":"dogodki","link":"https:\/\/www.slogi.si\/en\/dogodki\/alenka-bartl-costume-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alenka Bartl, Costume Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alenka Bartl<\/strong> has a very rich creative career behind her. In the early 1950s, before graduating from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, she designed her first costumes for plays, operas and ballets at the Slovenian National Theater in Ljubljana. She was one of the first Slovenian professional costume designers to have a university degree in fine art and costume design.<\/p>\n

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Over a period of fifty-five years she designed over 500 sets of theater costumes, worked on approximately forty film and television productions, and laid the foundations for the first Slovene sections for costume design at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, and as a Full Professor at these two institutions influenced generations of students.<\/p>\n

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She made a considerable contribution towards the establishment of costume design as an independent artistic genre in Slovenia and the former Yugoslavia (it was under her initiative that the Golden Arena awards for costume design were introduced at the Festival of Yugoslav Film in Pula).<\/p>\n

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The costume sketches by Alenka Bartl (according to the currently available data, there are over 5000 of them in private collections and at the iconotheque of the National Theater Museum) and the drama, opera, ballet, film and television costumes based on them reveal an intelligent, instinctive and often witty artist, full of joie de vivre and, above all, curious and forever searching. She was able to follow the message communicated by the written work, the director's interpretation of it and the psychology, ie the dramaturgic characterization of the protagonists, and capture the character of the interpreter \u2013 the person wearing the costume. In her sketches (and costumes) she always skilfully and thoughtfully combined historical (artistic) styles dictated by the text or music on which the production was based with the aesthetic of the time of the theater, film or television production.<\/p>\n

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Alenka Bartl's creations have appeared at numerous important festivals and exhibitions at home and abroad (in addition to the Prague Quadrennial let us mention the notable international exhibitions in Tokyo and Shanghai) and received numerous awards, among them the Pre\u0161eren Foundation Award (1972) and the Grand Pre\u0161eren Award for her life's work (1989). This year she was also given the highest Slovenian award for creativity in film, the Metod Badjura Award for her life's work.<\/p>\n

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The Slovenian National Theater Museum, in cooperation with the National Gallery in Ljubljana, recently organized a survey exhibition Alenka Bartl, Costume Designer, in which 355 costume sketches and 15 costumes were shown.<\/p>\n

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Project manager: Ivo Svetina; Francka Slivnik * Exhibition concept: Andrej Stra\u017ei\u0161ar * Curator of the exhibition: Tea Rogelj * Sketch selection: Alenka Bartl (with the help of Tea Rogel) * Texts at the exhibition: Tea Rogelj, Ivo Svetina * Lecturer: Jana Lavti\u017ear * Translator in English: Maja Visenjak Limon * Coordinator: Marja Loren\u010dak Kiker * Conservation and restoration of materials: Tina Buh * Digitalization: Du\u0161an Nelec, Ana Perne and Tea Rogelj * Technical organization: Jo\u017ee Raspet and technical team of the National Gallery and Du\u0161an Nelec, Slovenian theater museum * The exhibition included: The Slovenian Cinematheque, RTV Slovenija, Technical Museum of Slovenia, Theatre Studio of the Slovenian National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana and the Slovenian National Theatre Drama Ljubljana and SNG Drama Ljubljana<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

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