This article discusses selected set designs of Marian Bogusz (1920–1980), whose work is characterized by a predominance of unrealized projects. Bogusz’s artistic practice – designing, constructing, and exhibiting mockups – is juxtaposed with his clear views on the collective character of the work on a theater production and on the set designer’s role in this process. In this context, Bogusz’s gesture of creating visual concepts for the dramatic texts that inspired him is presented as a kind of scenographic utopia. His spatial compositions and their unused artistic potential are discussed based on an analysis of three projects from 1957: Karel Čapek’s The White Disease and Mother, and Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding.
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