News: Hakobo poster exhibition and book launch in Wroclaw (PL)
received from Beata Bartecka

Exhibition poster by Hakobo pictures from the opening of the exhibition

HGW: Hakobo Graphic World Jakub Stepien aka Hakobo Exhibition April 9th - May 22nd 2010 Opening: Friday, April 9th , 7 p.m. Design Gallery I BWA Wroclaw ul. Swidnicka 2-4 I Wroclaw, Poland Welcome to Hakobo Graphic World - exhibition of celebrated Polish graphic designer gives up with traditional form of graphic show. Hakobo Graphic World is the first major exhibition of Jakub Stepien's artworks who is better known as Hakobo. The presentation of his artworks in Design Gallery gives up with traditional form of graphic exhibition. The works will be exposed in specially made scenery which involves the furniture collection designed by Hakobo. Works selection is dictated by the need of total look at designer's output. In exhibition will be highlighted artist's favourite tricks and motives. The intention of organisators is a presentation of Hakobo's works in their natural surroundings (posters sticked straightly to the wall, stickers on the fridge, undone projects on the computer, T-shirts in the wardrobe etc.). During the exhibition there will be various events/actions - a book promotion, author's meetings and improvised home parties. Hakobo Graphic World exhibition is a herald of Out of Sth Presents festival.which presents many international artists, e.g. Honet (France), Mudwig (UK), Fefe Telavera (Spain), Thomas Schostok / {ths} (Germany) i M-City (Poland). Curators: Katarzyna Roj (BWA Wroclaw), Wojtek Piotrowski (Juice) Artist Jakub Stepien aka Hakobo (born 1976) is currently listed among the world's top fifty most important poster artists (according to John Foster, author of New Masters of Poster Design: Poster Design for the Next Century). He feels at home in visual identity, activities bordering art and design and the generally understood utalitarian graphics. He collaborates with many cultural institutions in Poland, e.g. the Art Museum in Lodz, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Design Gallery BWA Wroclaw. His clients include Pogo, the Lodz Design Festival, Wyborowa and others. He has a characteristic style, inspired by traditional graphic crafts as well as street culture. His collection of works consists of both disciplined, simple arrangements and those inspired by his fascination with camouflage, graphic noiz and the excessive. Artbook HGW: Hakobo Graphic World is Jakub Stepien's first monographic publication in the form of an artistic book. It covers a catalogue of Hakobo's numerous projects - posters, visual ID's, exhibition layouts, publications, as well as the limited edition of clothes and accessories. The attractively designed album breaks away with the tradition of "artist's catalogue" and shows Hakobo's output as a clear aesthetic system, consistently displayed in his works. Number of copies printed: 1000 Languages: Polish, English Layout: Hakobo, Maciek Lizak Editor: Katarzyna Roj (BWA Wroclaw) Editorial: Stach Szablowski Interview: Bogna Swiatkowska Publisher: Juice Hakobo

Book cover pages with Hakobo posters