WEB POSTER EXHIBITION - 16th Internatl. Poster Biennale Warsaw 1998
Street art
Contrary to popular opinion, the poster in the streets of Warsaw is neither dead
nor dull, but very much alive and kicking. OK, there is some international
advertising agency style ..
but you can still wait for the bus in the company of Franciszek Starowieyski
(poster on the left) or join a martian to admire the new style of Stasys Eidrigevicius in his
theater poster for the play Molly Sweeney (center, top poster and right, detail)
or find original Swierzy posters.
Photocopying machines were considered dangerous instruments of counterrevolution by
the former rulers, and were closely guarded. The joy of using them now for do-it-yourself
poster printing is obvious
Powerful music posters, imaginative typography
New movie and theater posters
displayed on Litfass columns that have sprouted everywhere and attempt to
bring some order to the pleasant chaos.
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