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Gro脽es: Kino Movie Posters from Twelve Decades
Since the dawn of cinema, posters have played a key role in publicizing films. Posters put a movie on the streets and captivate the imagination. The exhibition The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time presents three hundred original film posters dating from the early 1900s to the 2020s, all chosen from the Graphic Design Collection at the Kunstbibliothek (Art Library), Kulturforum, with the help of international guests from the film world.
Every movie needs a poster. Even in the digital era, it is the most important tool for visual communication. A good film poster is both an advertisement and an artwork. It condenses the film鈥檚 plot into a single powerful image, capturing the atmosphere and introducing the main characters. A film poster sparks curiosity without revealing too much. It astonishes, amuses, and perplexes 鈥� it sparks excitement, memories, exhilaration, and admiration.
The guests鈥� selection ranges from film classics such as The Golem to cult films like Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. There are works by Isolde Baumgart, Helmut Brade, Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch, Hans Hillmann, among other outstanding graphic designers. And the chronological overview of film posters includes blockbusters such as Jaws, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings, as well as posters for art house and independent films spanning Neorealismo, New Hollywood, and work by Pedro Almod贸var. The star exhibit is for Metropolis, an oversized poster (2.20 x 3 m) designed by Boris Bilinsky in 1927, which is thought to be the only copy held by a museum. The exhibition ends with fan art, hand-painted oversized posters by G枚tz Valien, and a peek at the current acquisition strategy.
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Since the dawn of cinema, posters have played a key role in publicizing films. Posters put a movie on the streets and captivate the imagination. The exhibition The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time presents three hundred original film posters dating from the early 1900s to the 2020s, all chosen from the Graphic Design Collection at the Kunstbibliothek (Art Library), Kulturforum, with the help of international guests from the film world.
Every movie needs a poster. Even in the digital era, it is the most important tool for visual communication. A good film poster is both an advertisement and an artwork. It condenses the film鈥檚 plot into a single powerful image, capturing the atmosphere and introducing the main characters. A film poster sparks curiosity without revealing too much. It astonishes, amuses, and perplexes 鈥� it sparks excitement, memories, exhilaration, and admiration.
The guests鈥� selection ranges from film classics such as The Golem to cult films like Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. There are works by Isolde Baumgart, Helmut Brade, Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch, Hans Hillmann, among other outstanding graphic designers. And the chronological overview of film posters includes blockbusters such as Jaws, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings, as well as posters for art house and independent films spanning Neorealismo, New Hollywood, and work by Pedro Almod贸var. The star exhibit is for Metropolis, an oversized poster (2.20 x 3 m) designed by Boris Bilinsky in 1927, which is thought to be the only copy held by a museum. The exhibition ends with fan art, hand-painted oversized posters by G枚tz Valien, and a peek at the current acquisition strategy.
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