{"id":11578,"date":"2024-10-18T09:29:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/wystawy\/boris-bucan-posters\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:25:50","slug":"boris-bucan-posters","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wystawy\/boris-bucan-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Bu\u0107an. Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The exhibition featured over a dozen theatre posters from the 1970s and 1980s by Boris Bu\u0107an, the world-famous Croatian painter, graphic artist, and poster designer. The hallmarks of the artist\u2019s distinctive conceptual style are bright colours, geometrization and multiplication of motifs, which are arranged in eye-catching, sometimes even psychedelic patterns. The exhibition was organised in conjunction with Croatia\u2019s presidency of the Council of the European Union. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boris Bu\u0107an (b. 1947 in Zagreb) is considered to be one of Croatia\u2019s first contemporary artists. During the economic boom of the 1960s and 1970s and the accompanying fascination with Western consumerism in the former Yugoslavia, he created a style that lies somewhere between Op-art and Pop art. His street actions in the centre of Zagreb, such as painting the pavement and placing colourful paintings in the streets, which were an expression of rebellion against the confinement of art to the ossified gallery and institutional system and treating it like a mere commodity, have gone down in history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n The artist consistently developed his unique style. Using photographs of well-known subjects, images from mass culture, cartoons, human figures, faces, and pictures of animals, he explored the processes of interaction between art and the viewer. He insisted on the ambivalence of the message and the complete marginalization of information in favour of the visual dimension, making his posters full-fledged artistic statements. Information about the dates and places of the advertised events, placed in small print in the margins, became Bu\u0107an\u2019s \u2018signature\u2019, his unique trademark. The artist gained worldwide fame with a poster designed for the Croatian National Theatre in Split, which announced Igor Stravinsky\u2019s ballet The Firebird. It was reproduced on the cover of the catalogue of the exhibition The Power of the Poster at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 1998. <\/div>\n
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Sixteen of Bu\u0107an\u2019s best-known posters from the 1960s and \u201970s were exhibited in the ICC\u2019s medieval cellars. This was the first exhibition of the Croatian poster artist\u2019s work in Poland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition was held as part of the cultural programme that accompanied Croatia\u2019s presidency of the Council of the European Union. It was co-organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Kristina Bonjekovi\u0107 Stojkovi\u0107 (MSU)<\/div>\n
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