CROATIAN FILM POSTER

MCA
Sv. Ivana 1, Pula
July 22 – September 1, 2013

The exhibition Croatian Film Poster, produced by the Istrian Museum of Contemporary Art / Museo d’arte contemporanea dell’Istria, is envisaged as an accompanying event of the 60th Pula Film Festival. Establishing continuous cooperation, the Museum is thematically linking its programmes to the film festival. Last year it presented the recent works by visual artist and actress Jagoda Kaloper and the year before photographs by cinematographer Stanko Herceg.

Appropriately, the exhibition Croatian Film Poster is taking place in the year of festival’s anniversary. It is trying to demonstrate the development and give an overview of this important segment of graphic design because film posters designed by Croatian artists not only provide valuable information about Croatian film production, but also about visual arts standards of past and present times. The exhibition is an anthology of sorts because it encompasses a period of one hundred years, from the first posters designed in the 1920s to this date. Except for the introductory historical segment, all the exhibited posters have promoted the Festival on Pula’s streets and squares in the last sixty years.