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Polish posters
New York, Merkin Concert Hall, October 25 - December 31, 2004
languages: Polski  / English 
 

Posters of the world-famous Polish School of Posters are on view in the Balcony Gallery, Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, through the end of the year. The exhibition features original posters from the golden age of Polish poster art: post-World War II through the fall of Communism, 1989. Additional rare posters of the Polish School are available for sale.

Polish posters, especially for film and theater, began to establish themselves internationally in the 1960s and '70s as among Poland’s most innovative cultural products, constituting a highly developed art form. This was in part the result of a system of film production and distribution that was not entirely dependent in those days upon the easy enticements that might heighten box-office receipts. So the subsidized promotion of subsidized films afforded serious artists a venue for serious work, comparable in quality to the poster art of France's La Belle Époque in the 1890s.

On display are more than 25 film, jazz, theater & circus posters by award-winning artists. Some posters, such as Jan Lenica's "Faust" and Franciszek Starowieyski's "Woman is a Woman", promote a specific play or film; while others, principally Waldemar Swierzy's "Jazz Greats" series, celebrate a special breed - jazz musicians: Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, etc. The posters augment the "Reel Music" and "NO MINIMUM Jazz duo-piano" concerts taking place at Merkin Concert Hall, one of New York's finest intimate concert spaces whose adventurous programming has won many coveted awards.

Contemporary Posters, a NYC company specializing in the art of the Polish School of Posters, organized the current poster exhibition.

Merkin Concert Hall - Kaufman Center, Goodman House
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
tel. (212) 501-3340

 


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