Kemistry Gallery is pleased to announce their latest exhibition —
Homework: Modern Polish Poster Design
(5 March — 17 April 2010)
Since forming in 2003, Warsaw-based studio Homework has been creating
posters for cultural events. Aware of Poland’s renowned legacy in poster design
but with no intentions to be part of it, the work they create nods to the simple
visual puns of Mieczysław Wasilewski and the playful illustrative style of Witkor
Gorka. However, rather than exist in homage to their predecessors, Joanna
Górska and Jerzy Skakun have created a distinctive style that has seen them
garner prizes at poster biennials across the world as well as gallery exhibitions
in Paris and Berlin. Design writer Ellen Lupton, in the book Area_2, credits
Joanna and Jerzy with “bringing the medium [of the Polish poster] back to life,
and updating it for the twenty-first century”, and notes that, “while reviving the
poster tradition, these designers are also wedding an art-based medium to the
contemporary practice of graphic design.”
Homework’s exhibition at Kemistry Gallery marks their first in the UK.
The gallery proudly present a selection of over fifty of their prints including
classic cinema and modern Polish theatre posters, with a selection available
for purchase from the gallery and online at www.kemistrygallery.co.uk <http://www.kemistrygallery.co.uk/>
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Kemistry Gallery 43 Charlotte Road London EC2A 3PD
Opening Hours:
Mon–Fri 10.00–6.00
Saturday 11.00–4.00
Always free.