Shaban Hysa (1938 – 2005)
Set designer, costume designer, painter and teacher.
“Maritorious Painter” / “Professor”
Born in Tirana on September 30. He studied at the artistic school “Jorda Misja” in Tirana in the branch of painting in the period 1953-1957. While from 1957 to 1961, he completed his higher studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw – Poland, in the branch of painting and choreography specialty. Hysa defended his diploma with the scenography of the drama “Mbi germadha” (Over the Ruins) by F. Pacrami at the “Teatri Popullor” where he also started working as a scenographer, stage architect and costume designer.
In September 1963, he went as a set designer at the Opera and Ballet Theater until 1970, when he was appointed a lecturer at the High Institute of Arts, in the newly established studio of scenography, who is also one of the founders of this studio.
He worked for a time in the League of Writers as head of the applied arts commission and in 1979 he returned to the “Teatri Popullor”. The time span of his activity is about 40 years: in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, with more than 250 creations in scenography and 600 in costume design. From this broad activity we mention the shows: “Morals of Mrs. Dulska” – 1962 / “Much ado about nothing” – 1962 / “Such a love” – 1963 / “Nora” – 1963 / “The Hurricane” – 1963 / “A friend of our class” – 1971 / “Carnivals” – 1972 / “Bathroom” – 1972 / “The Fisherman’s Family” – 1973 / “A Friend from the Village” – 1980 / “The Communists” – 1981 / “The Man with the Ball” – 1981 / “Road of the Flag” – 1982 / “Facing Yourself” – 1983 / “Prometheus” – 1984 / “Monserat” – 1985 / “Under the Stage Lights” – 1986 / “Romeo and Juliet” – 1987 / “Titanic Waltz” – 1990 / “Tyrannosaurus” – 1995 / “Shelter of the Forgotten – 2004 / “etc.
A special role was given to the object in relation to the stage plane, which was often treated as an ideographic association, as was observed in the use of closed, gloomy, threatening doors in the play “Ricardi III” (1992). Or with the amorphous rock mass, which represented the crowd abused by politics, as in the play “The Death of Danton” (1996).
He has also performed many scenography’s in the Theater of Opera and Ballet, among them the ballet “Halili and Hajria”, the operas “Rigoletto”, “Ghisel”, “The Princess of Kardash”, “The Marriage of Figaro”, “Skenderbeu”, “Bohemia” etc.
Shaban Hysa has a large volume of creative work as one of the talented costume designers of the Albanian theater with over 200 realizations, with which he has enabled characterization in time, in the social economic rank or at the level of the artistic paradigm with free symbolic and allegorical treatments .
He also has a rich activity in painting, where many of his creations in painting can be found in the National Art Gallery. He holds the title “Meritorious Painter” and “Professor”.
Previously published on the Facebook page of the same name in September 2020
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