From 4th October 2013 to 12th January 2014 at the Poster Museum at Wilanów, the new exhibition entitled Feeling movie mood… Polish movie posters from the years 1945-1969, can be viewed. The exhibition presents the most famous movie posters of the post-war Polish and world cinema. The exhibition and accompanying events such as film screenings, meetings with artists, is a new proposal given by the Poster Museum for the coming autumn and winter.
Feeling movie mood will present more than 250 works of outstanding Polish graphic designers. “Many of the works presented in the exhibition are today icons of Polish and international art,” says Aleksandra Jatczak from the Poster Museum at Wilanów, curator of the exhibition. Those works are award-winning, sought by collectors, analyzed by historians, reaching record prices at auctions. The Poster Museum is one of the very few museums which have the most unique copies that occur only in single pieces.
Among aggregated works, can be found: award-winning exhibit of some international competitions by Henryk Tomaszewski, masterful compositions by Roman Cieślewicz, Wojciech Fangor, Marek Freudnereich, Jan Lenica, humorous posters by Eryk Lipiński, Jan Młodożeniec, Franciszek Starowieyski, Marian Stachurski, Waldemar Świerzy, Bronisław Zelka and experimental collages by Wojciech Zamecznik. There will also be works e by renowned artists from other fields of art such as: Roman Opałka, Wlarian Borowczyk and Aleksander Kobzdej as well as presented only on the limits of history, posters made by women: Liliana Baczewska, Hanna Bodnar, Anna Huskowska and Hanna Lipińska. Among collected works, the posters that present classics of Polish and world cinema such as: Sunset Boulevard, Eroica, Vertigo, High Noon, The Canal and equally interesting works devoted to the lesser known film productions such as fairs or documents broadcasted in Polish cinemas in 50s and 60s.
Feeling movie mood is not only an exhibition of excellent posters. Complementary to the exhibition will be unknown reviews and columns by Agnieszka Osiecka devoted to films. “The film reviews by Agnieszka Osiecka, an active participant of Polish cultural life, and also a student of the profession of producer, is in perfect harmony with the graphic interpretation of works presented in poster,” adds Aleksandra Jatczak. “The time, in which Osiecka wrote the reviews, was one of the most interesting and one of the best periods of Polish graphic art. Much of the presented works is on a higher artistic level than the films themselves, as noticed Osiecka. The reviews found in the archives of the Foundation Okularnica together with dozens of posters from the collection Poster Museum, was set together as a complementary means of artistic expression in the publication ” Filmidła. Stories of films”. Nevertheless, nothing can substitute the original posters. Their colour and quality still attract, hence the idea of the exhibition.
The exhibition is a continuation of the cooperation the Poster Museum with the Agnieszka Osiecka Okularnica Foundation.
The Poster Museum at Wilanów was established on 4 June 1968 as a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw. One of the main founders who established the first institution of this kind in the world was Professor Stanisław Lorentz – the Director of the National Museum at that time. It was decided to locate the Museum in the area of the former riding-school that belongs to the complex of buildings in the Palace at Wilanów. Nowadays, the facility has a collection of art posters which enumerates 55 000 titles, 33 000 of which are Polish posters. Apart from exhibitions, which aim is to present a wider audience to this field of art, the Museum also runs a publishing activity. Since 1994 the International Poster Biennale is organised here every two years; for every edition more than 2 000 works are submitted from all around the world.
Picture © T.Byszewska-Lenica. Widmo, 1957.
Posters below: R.Cieślewicz – Eroica,1957. / M.Stachurski – The Legend of Love, 1958.
