Donato Sartori Italy
This is the gentleman who inspired me to start carving wooden masks
This is the gentleman who inspired me to start carving wooden masks. The Italian mask maker Donato Sartori.
Donato was engaged to create around 40 masks used by us actors at the theatre company Folkteatern Gävleborg, Sweden, when we performed Aeschylus’ play The Oresteia, directed by Peter Oskarson and first played February 21, 2002, in a theatre in Gävle that many years ago used to be a gasholder.
I also had the pleasure to work with Donato Sartori as his student in Padova, Italy, the summer of 2006.
Donato Sartori is regarded as one of the best mask makers in the world. His father and professor was Amleto Sartori, who co-operated with most of the great theatre creators of the 20th century. Such as Giorgio Strehler, Bertholt Brecht, Jean Louis Barrault and Jaqcues Lecoq.
Donato Sartori has during the major part of his professional life co-operated with Dario Fo.
Donato is often inspired by the Asian theatre’s ancient methods of mask making.
http://www.sartorimaskmuseum.it/
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