Original scientific paper
The Artistic Dramaturgy of the Zlatko Bourek›s Figure Theatre, that Wonderful World of Freaks Theatre
Marijana Županić Benić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7340-3439
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The art, or even better, the Bourek’s universe is made up of his extraordinary, creative, exploratory, playful, funny, and especially distinctive energy which leaves the observer breathless because whatever it has touched has shaped the history of both puppetry and all other media in which he expressed himself. His artistic expression consists of a distinct devotion, art and, above all, true and unique poetics which combines elements of surrealism and folklore, and complements them with grotesque humour, thus creating a special environment within, which his grotesque figures, freaks come to life. The backbone of this work is the artistic dramaturgy of the theatre of figures by Zlatko Bourek, which includes a number of different, intertwined simultaneous visual systems that affect the theatrical experience of the audience. We try to highlight the artistic components of this type of puppet theatre that do not stop only at the creation of the puppet as the protagonist, but that looks back at the overall picture of the puppets coming to life on stage. One of the possible perspectives of observing visual dramaturgy according to Posner (2014) can be considered from several starting points: images that support, interpret, contrast or otherwise directly communicate with the text, then as a kind of visual grammar used by the artist as an autoreflective theatrical dialogue with audiences, and as an emotional response of the audience about the artistic elements of the play, which exists regardless of the action that takes place on stage or the spoken text. For this paper, a study was conducted among students which examines the experience of the artist’s artistic expression based on the selection of several photographs of Zlatko Bourek’s puppets and which emotions the view of the puppet arouses in the respondents. The artistic dramaturgy of the theatre of figures is viewed as a kind of visual meta-narrative and the emotional response of the observer to a separate aspect of art, the puppet as the bearer of the action.
Keywords
emotional aspect of the observer; art dramaturgy; artistic expression; puppet; theatre of figures.
Hrčak ID:
284547
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Publication date:
7.10.2022.
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