A great homage to the art of poster design.
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The Biennale is a project conceived and directed by Sergio Olivotti and organized by the “Istituto di Istruzione Superiore di Finale Ligure” with the support and collaboration of Francesca Agate, Pamela Campagna and the students of the IPSIA Graphic Design School / Finale Ligure.
Endorsement by Aiap, Regione Liguria, Comune di Finale Ligure.
The heart of the event consists of an invitational exhibition of 250 posters by 60 famous poster artists from all over the world. The Biennale will be a widespread event which will include conferences, exhibitions, video interviews with famous international designers and workshops on poster art and graphic design in general.
Simultaneously with the main invitational exhibition, a littler exhibition "Design Vs Poverty" will take place across the streets of the charming village of Finalborgo on the issue of social poverty.
Interviews to great graphic designers will be projected in the auditorium: Luba Lukova / Armando Milani / German Montalvo / Mark Gowing / Pablo Kunst / Istvan Orosz / Elyron / Pablo Kunst / Gianluca Cannizzo and many others.
The program of the two-day opening also provides for the presence of artists / illustrators who will design live using traditional and/or digital techniques: TryAgainLab, Andrea Musso, Roberta Birň, Simona Pollio, Clorophilla, Gianluca Sturmann, Manolab and many others.
Sunday 13th from 11a.m. in the Auditorium, Ester Manitto will present the text "A Lesson with AG Fronzoni. From teaching design to designing lifestyle".
Here is the (still not complete!) list of artists whose posters will be exhibited in the beautiful setting of the monumental complex of Finalborgo, italian Village of the Year 2008:
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2xGoldstein / Germany
Agnieszka Ziemiszewska / Poland Agustina Cosulich / Argentina Alain Le Quernec / France Alejandro Magallanes / Mexico Alex Satin / Italy Alizarina & Davide Fornari / Italy Andrew Lewis / Canada Anita Wasik / Poland Armando Milani / Italy C2F ( CYBU Richli & Fabienne Burri) / Switzerland CYAN / Germany Daniele De Battč / Italy Design Studio Zwölf (Stefan Guzy , Björn Wiede ) / Germany Elyron / Italy Elzbieta Chojna / Poland Eric Olivares Lira / Mexico François Caspar / France Gianluca Cannizzo / Italy |
Gitte Kath / Denmark
Henning Wagenbreth / Germany Homa Delvaray / Iran István Orosz / Hungary Joanna Górska & Jerzy Skakun / Poland Joe Scorsone and Alice Drueding / USA Justyna Czerniakowska / Poland Kaja Renkas / Poland Kari Piippo / Finland Katarzyna Zapart / Poland Lech Majewski / Poland Lorella Pierdicca / Italy Luba Lukova / USA Malgorzata Gurowska / Poland Mariana Baldaia / Portugal Mark Gowing / Australia Matteo Carboni / Italy Mehdi Mahdian / Iran Mohammad Jamshidi / Iran |
Niklaus Troxler / Switzerland
Norito Shinmura / Japan Pablo Kunst / Argentina Pamela Campagna / Italy Paul Palma / Italy Pekka Loiri / Finland Peter Chmela / Slovakia Piotr Kunce / Poland Ryszard Kaja / Poland Stasys Eidrigevicius / Poland Stephan Bundi / Switzerland Tomi SheiderBauer / Austrian - Italian U.G. Sato / Japan Urszula Giren / Poland Uwe Loesch / Germany Wojciech Kwasniewski / Poland Woody Pirtle / Use Yossi Lemel / Israel Zofia Klajs / Poland |
The 1st Italian Biennial of poster will take place in the province. Out of any traditional path in the issues over graphic design, far from the most important academies. In the proposers’ expectations this view from the far will mostly promote a sincere, democratic and structured debate: we play on a neutral ground.
Now, why a Biennial of Poster? And which posters is it about?
Some say that in nowadays society a free, unchained design shouldn’t be accepted any longer; that design should necessarily be ethically strong and forceful; that content is the noble part of design.
Some state that in the planning method relies the real ethical value of design. Itself in the choice of planning (‘those who do not plan, have already chosen to be planned’ G.C. Argan) and, furthermore, in the choice of a method following specific rules – rational and not chancy, able to address an intellectually controlled world towards a form which is nothing but a deterministically unavoidable answer to a precise question (B. Munari).
Now, is design only just this? Where is the soul of design? Are mistake, randomness, mystical irrationality part of good design? Do intellectualistic masturbations of rationalism lead to a sterile and boring design, just as it happened to rational architecture, daughter to the same assumptions? Assumed that the artist/designer (be it painter, graphic designer, stylist, architect) can’t be passively dominated by the market mermaids and has to regain the role of creator of dreams, of leader, the question – fuggy and ambiguous – is: form or content? Ethic or Aesthetic? And do the former questions make sense?
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