Rubidori Manshaft (who signs artistic works related to theatre and performance) is the alias of Roberta Dori Puddu (set designer). She graduated in Venice, and her artistic path led her to work in a border zone between the arts, with experiences in figurative, film and performance art. She trained in film and theater with Mafai, Scaparro, Bolognini. After graduation she won an international scholarship from La Scala theatre for stage design. As a designer she has worked for Teatro alla Scala and other international theaters including Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Grosse FestspielHaus – Salzburg, Festival dei Due Mondi Charleston – USA, Theatre Du Capitol – Toulouse, Theatre de La Cigale – Paris, Grand Théâtre de Genève.
She painted for private commissions France, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland. Collaborated on several occasions with architect Renzo Mongiardino. Signing the setting of the exhibition Napoleone e la Repubblica Italiana (1802-1805) (Milan, Rotonda della Besana). For the exhibition Sovrane Fragilità at the Pinacoteca Agnelli – Lingotto (Torino), she signed both the installation and the pictorial decorations. Designed and worked with, among others, Lila De Nobili, Fabio Palamidese, Emilio Carcano, Chloe Obolensky, Irene Groudinsky, Claudie Gastine.
Rubidori Manshaft participated in the 2005 Venice Biennale and for several years in the Fuori Salone e in Milan presenting art objects and conceptual installations. She curated the entire historical/pictorial refurbishment of the Albertolli ceiling at Palazzo Reale in Milan of the ‘Sala Grande detta delle Cariatidi’. In Milan, in addition to designing and curating the decoration of interiors, she has conducted extensive research on ”art and the senses” combining pictorial discourse with poetic perception.
An exponent of visual poetry, she has been a consultant for several Italian and international artists and in conceptual art projects. She has trained in the performance field with many artists including, Roger Bernat, Matías Umpierrez, Mohamed El Khatib and, in cinema, with Corrado Morra. She has participated in several exhibitions with both pictorial works and theatrical installations and photographic works. She has performed at the Thessaloniki Performance Festival, the Reims Festival Scènes, and the Màntica Festival. She curated the set design for the Ann Demeulemeester fashion shows.
She is the author, with Officina Orsi (Switzerland) of 12parole_7pentimenti (2014, presented at FIT the same year) a theatrical device about the concept of liquid words. In 2015 she began working on a new installation/theatrical art research that investigates the space between figurative and performing arts and installation with the application of these languages to those of participatory theater. Thus was born the cycle Su l’Umano sentire – On the Human feeling (theatrical installation for video and words, at FIT in 2016) declined in different chapters (in many cities in Switzerland and Italy), in the form for open spaces and with the version for closed spaces with scenic staging and wunderkammer. In 2017 the chapter Maneggiami con cura – Handle me with care (at FIT in 2017) was born.
In 2020, research began (suspended due to Covid) for Alcune cose da mettere in ordine, which premiered in October 2023 at LAC Lugano in the frame of FIT Festival Internazionale del Teatro e della scena contemporanea.
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Alcune cose da mettere in ordine
2023 Edition
29.09 – 08.10
SU L’UMANO SENTIRE (cap. 2)
“Handle me with care”
2017 Edition
28.09 – 08.10
SU L’UMANO SENTIRE (cap. 1)
“Souvenir of Lugano. Memory of Lugano”
2016 Edition
30.09 – 09.10
12words_7regrets
2014 Edition
16.10 – 20.10
