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Owe
a lot of my understanding of designing Commedia dell'Arte masks to Carlo
Mazzone-Clementi, who spent many hours with me talking about Commedia
dell'Arte characters and life in general. I have identified the masks
that Carlo guided me in designing.
I
would be sculpting some element of a mask for hours and Carlo would
come in to the sculpture studio late at night when I was working and look
at the mask and say, "no like this" and push his
thumb into the clay totally changing something I had been working on all
day or for days.
But
then would see and understand the character trait differences he was guiding
me to understand. Carlo is also the one who taught me the right
way to put hair into a mask and greatly influenced my understanding of
Arlecchino and how Arlecchino changed from the mid 1500's
in northern Italy to the late 1600's in France.
In
those late night visits Carlo would make to the sculpture
studio he would often say, "come Stanley you work to hard,
you need to drink some wine" and he would order me up stairs
and we would relax, drink wine and talk about life and Commedia dell'Arte.
"In
order to have a live performance you need a live mask, made from a live
material". Carlo Mazzone-Clementi
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