Paris Mexis
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Director, designer and creative director working in opera, theatre, dance, cinema, television, advertisement and communication, creating shows, exhibitions, corporate events and promotional design. He is a creative associate of the communication design agency Beetroot, a book cover designer for Patakis Publications, a music cover designer (Decca, Sony, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi etc.) and a radio producer at the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) – Third Programme. Paris is a frequently invited speaker and educator, lecturing and conducting seminars and workshops on design, education and performance. He is a design & communications advisor to the Mind the Fact festival, the Costeas-Geitonas private school, a founding member of the non-profit cultural organisation Polyphonica and has served as president of the Greek Theatre Designers Association. He was born in Athens and studied design for performance and scenography in London at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and in Prague at DAMU, interior design at the Athenian Artistic and Technological Group (AKTO – Middlesex University) and music at the Exemplary Experimental Conservatory in Athens.
That year, the opera had exhausted its budget for sets on its first full Ring Cycle, so I had to make a show with “virtually no sets”. I grasped this challenge with great interest and created a symbolic world whose primary elements were: placement of the individual and (its) society in space, colour, light and shadow. Within this highly stylised world, the only realistic element was a large stain of blood on Lucia’s dress in the infamous madness scene. It is a rare opportunity for a set designer to be asked to create a scenography with no sets and this Lucia was such an opportunity. Through close collaboration with my good friend, the lighting designer George Tellos, we managed to create a variety of spaces mainly by placing and lighting the performers in various formats and by manipulating some moving light beams that projected on theatrical smoke particles. The result was a non-corporeal scenography that amplified actions and reactions and their significance in time and space.
Music: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano
Musical Director: Sergi Roca
Direction & Production Design: Paris Mexis
Lighting Designer: George Tellos
Photos: Olaf Struck
That year, the opera had exhausted its budget for sets on its first full Ring Cycle, so I had to make a show with “virtually no sets”. I grasped this challenge with great interest and created a symbolic world whose primary elements were: placement of the individual and (its) society in space, colour, light and shadow. Within this highly stylised world, the only realistic element was a large stain of blood on Lucia’s dress in the infamous madness scene. It is a rare opportunity for a set designer to be asked to create a scenography with no sets and this Lucia was such an opportunity. Through close collaboration with my good friend, the lighting designer George Tellos, we managed to create a variety of spaces mainly by placing and lighting the performers in various formats and by manipulating some moving light beams that projected on theatrical smoke particles. The result was a non-corporeal scenography that amplified actions and reactions and their significance in time and space.
Director, designer and creative director working in opera, theatre, dance, cinema, television, advertisement and communication, creating shows, exhibitions, corporate events and promotional design. He is a creative associate of the communication design agency Beetroot, a book cover designer for Patakis Publications, a music cover designer (Decca, Sony, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi etc.) and a radio producer at the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) – Third Programme. Paris is a frequently invited speaker and educator, lecturing and conducting seminars and workshops on design, education and performance. He is a design & communications advisor to the Mind the Fact festival, the Costeas-Geitonas private school, a founding member of the non-profit cultural organisation Polyphonica and has served as president of the Greek Theatre Designers Association. He was born in Athens and studied design for performance and scenography in London at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and in Prague at DAMU, interior design at the Athenian Artistic and Technological Group (AKTO – Middlesex University) and music at the Exemplary Experimental Conservatory in Athens.
Music: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano
Musical Director: Sergi Roca
Direction & Production Design: Paris Mexis
Lighting Designer: George Tellos
Photos: Olaf Struck
