17 June - 28 August 2008
ECHO OF GRAPHIC DESIGN TAIWAN/CZECH REPUBLIC
Posters and graphic design by 15 Taiwanese and 15 Czech graphic designers
Exhibition curators: For BBA Doc. Jan Rajlich, for NTNU Prof. Apex Lin Pang-Soong, for BKC Marika Kupkova
Ceremonial opening of the exhibitions on Thursday, 19 June 2008 at 17:00 in the Fresco Hall of the Old Town Hall in Brno, 8 Radnicka Str.
Organisors of the exhibitions: Brno Biennale Association, Dpt. of Industrial design UK FSI VUT Brno University , National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Cultural & Creative Industries Center Taipei. With support of the statutory city of Brno.
Following on the successful "Trio of Posters" exhibition held in Taiwan in September 2007, the city of Brno is now proudly hosting a joint exhibition of Taiwanese and Czech graphic designers. The exhibition has been organized by the Brno Biennale Association and the Department of Industrial Design of Institute of Machine and Industrial Design FSI VUT Brno, for the Czech side (curator doc. Jan Rajlich Jr.), and by National Taiwan Normal University Taipei for the Taiwanese side (curator prof. Apex Lin Pang-Soong). The curator of the galleries of the BKC (Brno cultural center) is Marika Kupkova.
The exhibition has been incorporated into the long-lasting cycle of exhibitions called Brno – the Capital of Graphic design, which has been running since 1993. Organizers of this event have invited 15 graphic-designers from each respective country to the Echo exhibition this year. Each artist will exhibit two posters and several smaller graphic works (symbols, books, packaging etc.) originating in the last 10 years.
The exhibited works of Czech graphic artists illustrate deep rooted traditional views of Czech graphic design authors on products of the visual communication that have been based on the creator's individuality and his or her own style. The emphasis is therefore on the author's approach to commissioned projects, not on the art-director approach that has since dominated the industry. This is very much the still-valid attitude to graphic design shared by the middle and older generations of Czech graphic artists, members of which are largely opposed both to the current art-directors' attitudes driven largely by commercialism as well as to uniformity and globalization of how graphic design looks.
Location
BKC – Brno Cultural Centre
U Dobrého pastyre Gallery
4 Radnicka Str., Brno
Czech Republic
17 June - 28 August 2008
Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm except Saturdays and Sundays.
The Echo of Graphic Design Taiwan/Czech Republic exhibition is part of the 23 International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 2008, an Icograda endorsed event.
For more information, please contact:
SBB
Jiráskova tø. 4
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
E:
W: http://www.sbb-bienalebrno.cz
The Brno Biennale is the oldest permanent cyclic exhibition of the graphic design in the World and has been endorsed by Icograda.
About Brno Biennale Association
BBA is a professional organization of visual communication design (graphic design) associating the designers, artists and theoreticians in its creative section, and the representatives of adjoining professions, institutions, firms, and schools directly related to the graphic arts, organisers, executors, administrators of the exhibitions of visual communication and their graphic forms, as well as friends of graphic forms of visual communication in its organization section.
Exhibition curators: For BBA Doc. Jan Rajlich, for NTNU Prof. Apex Lin Pang-Soong, for BKC Marika Kupkova
Ceremonial opening of the exhibitions on Thursday, 19 June 2008 at 17:00 in the Fresco Hall of the Old Town Hall in Brno, 8 Radnicka Str.
Organisors of the exhibitions: Brno Biennale Association, Dpt. of Industrial design UK FSI VUT Brno University , National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Cultural & Creative Industries Center Taipei. With support of the statutory city of Brno.
Following on the successful "Trio of Posters" exhibition held in Taiwan in September 2007, the city of Brno is now proudly hosting a joint exhibition of Taiwanese and Czech graphic designers. The exhibition has been organized by the Brno Biennale Association and the Department of Industrial Design of Institute of Machine and Industrial Design FSI VUT Brno, for the Czech side (curator doc. Jan Rajlich Jr.), and by National Taiwan Normal University Taipei for the Taiwanese side (curator prof. Apex Lin Pang-Soong). The curator of the galleries of the BKC (Brno cultural center) is Marika Kupkova.
The exhibition has been incorporated into the long-lasting cycle of exhibitions called Brno – the Capital of Graphic design, which has been running since 1993. Organizers of this event have invited 15 graphic-designers from each respective country to the Echo exhibition this year. Each artist will exhibit two posters and several smaller graphic works (symbols, books, packaging etc.) originating in the last 10 years.
The exhibited works of Czech graphic artists illustrate deep rooted traditional views of Czech graphic design authors on products of the visual communication that have been based on the creator's individuality and his or her own style. The emphasis is therefore on the author's approach to commissioned projects, not on the art-director approach that has since dominated the industry. This is very much the still-valid attitude to graphic design shared by the middle and older generations of Czech graphic artists, members of which are largely opposed both to the current art-directors' attitudes driven largely by commercialism as well as to uniformity and globalization of how graphic design looks.
Location
BKC – Brno Cultural Centre
U Dobrého pastyre Gallery
4 Radnicka Str., Brno
Czech Republic
17 June - 28 August 2008
Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm except Saturdays and Sundays.
The Echo of Graphic Design Taiwan/Czech Republic exhibition is part of the 23 International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 2008, an Icograda endorsed event.
For more information, please contact:
SBB
Jiráskova tø. 4
602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
E:
W: http://www.sbb-bienalebrno.cz
The Brno Biennale is the oldest permanent cyclic exhibition of the graphic design in the World and has been endorsed by Icograda.
About Brno Biennale Association
BBA is a professional organization of visual communication design (graphic design) associating the designers, artists and theoreticians in its creative section, and the representatives of adjoining professions, institutions, firms, and schools directly related to the graphic arts, organisers, executors, administrators of the exhibitions of visual communication and their graphic forms, as well as friends of graphic forms of visual communication in its organization section.
OPENING:
Thursday, 19 June 2008
17:00
Fresco Hall, Old Town Hall
Brno, 8 Radnicka Str.