[Designs for the film Goya en Burdeos]. [Female stage costume] . DIB/18/5/174/4
The exhibition “Pedro Moreno. Pro domo sua. Arte teatral y cinematográfico” offers a tour of the extensive and brilliant artistic and professional career of this outstanding creator, National Theatre Award winner and recipient, among other honours, of the Premios Max and Goya awards for the excellence of his work.
It is a journey through his life's path, with a clear narrative sense from beginning to end. His beginnings lie in the world of haute couture in the 1960s, a stage that lasted for almost two decades. Under the influence of his mentor, Elio Berhanyer, and faced with the rise of prêt-à-porter, Moreno makes the leap into the world of theatre and film, where he finds his true “place in the world” and the ideal channel for his boundless imagination. Over almost forty years he develops an intense creative career, which culminates in a more intimate and personal stage, in which he keeps intact his drive to “tell stories” through a unique and deeply characteristic body of work.
The exhibition seeks not only to make his artistic output known, but also to reveal the how and why of his creative process. To this end, it is organised around various milestones that allow visitors to understand his conception of creation, while offering them diverse experiences designed to create memorable moments along the way. These are enriched by the testimonies of outstanding professionals from the stage and audiovisual fields, such as José Carlos Plaza, Ana Belén, Víctor Ullate and Emma Suárez, who share their views on the work of Maestro Moreno.
The Biblioteca Nacional de España, the institution to which Pedro Moreno has bequeathed part of his immense work and which the artist himself regards as his second home – a key source of documentation for many of his research projects on costume in historical contexts – now hosts this exhibition as a symbolic return of the “prodigal son”. In keeping with the “latinajo” of the title, Moreno himself accompanies us throughout the tour, guiding us as if we were in his home and revealing the keys to what we are looking at.
Figurines of “Diana y Confidente” for El perro del hortelano. 1996 MNAE
Figurines of “Coro. Ballet” for Los amores de la Inés. 2013 MNA
Figurines for Los diamantes de la corona. 2010 BNE. DIB/18/5/411/5
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