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Inleiding: Toneelschuur Kees van de Lagemaat is vanaf
1972 werkzaam geweest als theatertechnicus in de Toneelschuur te Haarlem. In 1984 volgde hij bij de NOS
op Sandbergen een opleiding voor Televisieregie en Lichtontwerp. Zelfstandig / Commercieel / Architectuur: September 1987 werd hij zelfstandig
lichtontwerper en sloot zich aan bij Eyelight studio's in Haarlem.
Eyelight studio's was een samenwerkingsverband van een aantal zelfstandige
bedrijven. Beeldende Kunst: Voor de Hogeschool van Beeldende
Kunsten, Muziek en Dans in Den Haag begeleide hij als lichtontwerper projecten
als Promenoir van Mondriaan / Academy of Light In opdracht van Hoogovens ( Corus) Package and Steel vervaardigde hij samen met zijn broer Mike een levend kunstwerk op een stand in Dusseldorf. Publikaties: In 1993 kreeg hij de prijs van de Kritiek voor de "Othello" bij Toneelgroep
Amsterdam en voor "All for Love" bij de Blauwe Maandag Compagnie.
Introduction: Toneelschuur Kees van der Lagemaat has worked as a theatre technician
at Toneelschuur in Haarlem since 1972. In 1981 he created his first professional
lighting design Springtime, a project of the then artistic director of
theatre company Perspekt. During the same year he designed the lighting
of the controversial Wat gebeurde met Majakovsky, a co-production of Toneelschuur
and the theatre company Onafhankelijk Toneel. Training Kees took a course in television directing and lighting design with NOS at Sandbergen in 1984. He was a student of cineast Thomas Brasch where he studied picture analysis. This resulted in Mercedes a television film assigned by VPRO made with the cooperation of theatre company Discordia and directed by Thomas Brasch. Independent commercial architecture In September 1987 Kees became an independent lighting
designer and joined the Eyelight studios in Haarlem: a cooperative of
a number of independent companies. He was involved in the introduction
of HDTV for Philips, made product presentations for IBM, Toyota, Interpolis
and Forbo; designed the lighting for a mega show of Weightwatchers International
in Brussels; made live tv shows for ZDF in Germany; designed the lighting
for the Heineken Brewery museum in Amsterdam and designed an exhibition
about Aborigines in the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen. In Kourou,
French Guyana, he made the lighting designs for the exhibition of Musee
d'Espace. The lighting designed for the opening of the Erasmus bridge
in Rotterdam in 1996 was widely acclaimed. Visual Arts As their lighting designer Kees monitored projects such as Promenoir van Mondriaan and Academy of Light for Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans in the Hague. He was asked by the Mondriaanstichting to design the lighting for Stichting Deventer Ziekenhuizen as part of a applied monumental art project. He froze a moment of light in the Willem de Zwijger church in Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Fonds van de Kunst. In three theatres at Leidseplein: Balie, Paradiso and Melkweg he designed a computer animation as part of City a Life in 2001. For Novacollege in Haarlem he designed a large spiritual light object titled Venster op de Toekomst Assigned by Corus Hoogovens Package and Steel he and his brother Mike made a life work of art for an exhibition in Dusseldorf.
In 1993 he was awarded the critics prize for Toneelgroep Amsterdam's Othello, and Blauwe Maandag Compagnie's All for Love. Together with Eyelight Studio's he received an Oskar for the design of a Forbo Krommenie presentation in Paris in 1995. This was followed with the European award for best museological presentation. 2005: Lichtontwerpers played a part in the publication
of the book De Vormgeving van Theater
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