Our Larval, Grotesque, Archaic and Commedia dell´Arte masks
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Larval masks
Paper masché, Venetian technique
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Grotesque Masks
Paper Masché
Dry Paint, finish with bitumen
Archaic masks
The Archaic mask is specially designed to work with incorporated social structures deeply entrenched in our behaviour patterns, perceptions and distinctions. The mask itself displays features of four archetypes going back a long line of social and theatrical history, the leader, the warrior, the saint and the slave. Integrated in one mask and performed in exercises specially developed for this purpose, the revelation of incorporated social and cultural codes is striking. Which makes this masks a valuable tool for acting training, physical theatre in general and the work on tragic structures in particular.
Commedia dell´Arte masks
Our Commedia dell´Arte leather masks are made in the traditional way rediscovered by Amleto Sartori at the Centro Maschere e Strutture gestuali. We studied with his son Donato Sartori at the Centro.
The masks are made of leather dyed with chestnut powder formed over a wooden model of the mask. After finishing the wooden model it´s a three to four days process working the leather accompanied by a good deal of sweat and blisters. Worn by the same performer over the course of time (sweat and more sweat) the intial stiffness of the leather smoothens and the mask becomes like a second skin.
Our leather masks
