INVITATION to TMDG

My dear friends of the other hemisphere, please come to Mar del Plata. TrimarchiDG is the largest gathering of design in Latin America and brings together thousands of designers around the world. The event tooks place every year in Argentina. Two young designer, Seba and Pablo had started 8 years ago. As they wrote in the invitation letter more than 5000 designers are attending to each lecture actually which is... lovely.
Participants include David Carson (USA), Area 3 (ESP), Zalma Jalluf (Arg), Alex Trochut (Esp), Juan Pablo Cambariere (Arg), Collettivo (Bra), István Orosz (Hu), The President (Afr).
My lecture will start on Saturday (3rd of October) 19:15. In the next day my workshop will begin at 10:00.

POSTER WEEK-END IN ESSEN

Plakat Kunst Hof Rüttenscheid Fest 2009 from 18. – 20.09.2009 Essen, the "secret" capital of poster art in Germany. Since twelf years two museums of Essen, the "Plakatkunsthof" (Poster-Art-Yard) and the Deutsches Plakat Museum (German Poster Museum) award together the INTERNATIONALER PLAKATKUST HOF RÜTTENSCHEID PREIS (International-Poster-Art-Yard-Rüttenscheid-Prize) for the lifework of an international well known poster designer. In this year the prize was given to Allain Le Quernec. His exhibition was opened in Grillo Theater, and as usually, all the former „preistragers” were invited to the celebration and a lot of guests. As you can see in the photo Feliks Büttner (GER), Istvan Orosz (HUN), Kari Piippo (FIN), Niklaus Troxler (SUI), Alain Le Quernec (FRA), David Tartakover (ISR), Uwe Loesch (GER), Sandor Pinczehelyi (HUN), Sadik Karamustafa (TUR), Viktor Seroneit (PKHR), Ben Bos (NED), Waldemar Swierzy (POL), Melk Imboden (SUI), Rene Grohnert (DPME), Miecz Wasilewski (POL) Rene Wanner (SUI) were there.

ILUSIONARIO

The Virtual Museum of Optical Illusions (established by Juan Luis Roldán) shows a lot of my works. The current on-line exhibition of the museum is about the "Skull Optical Illusions". The metamorphic skull has always been one of the most popular optical illusions. From the 19th century, artists and designers have been using this kind of image in postcards, comics, posters, advertisements or covers. Among more than fifty examples you can see the works of Charles Allan Gilbert, Bernhard Gutmann, Salvador Dalí, Octavio Ocampo, István Orosz and Norbert Jung. The exhibition is opened for visitors from August 2009 till July 2010. The show is on-line, but the catalogue is real. (The enclosed illustrations - and about hundred more etchings were made ... and will be made... for the new Hungarian/German edition of the book by Sebastian Brant: The Ship of Fools. You can see more illustrations here, or in the Hungarian Utisz blog.)

















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And two more death's heads.
After the launch of his last book "Make your own 3D Illusions" featuring one of my anamorphosis illustration, Gianni A. Sarcone published a new book on vintage and antique illusions in which he presented two of my skulls from the Narrenschyff. Title of the book: Curiopticals. (Carlton Books)

LOOK UP TO HIM!

Homage to Shigeo Fukuda – 76 designers for his 76 years – that is the title of the new exhibition organized by the BICeBé (Bienal Internacional del Cartel Bolivia).
You can find my poster in the online version of the show:
I past here the photo of the poster viewed from an unusual (anamorphic) viewpoint. The distorted letters are readable only from bottom-view – so the message of the poster: look up to him!

There will be an other memory exhibition homage to Fukuda with about fifty invited artists. It will be a travelling show organized by Kriska Rudzinski’s Taidejulisetgalleria in Helsinki. Here is the poster I designed for that show.

KARI

AN INVITATION TO PÉCS AGAIN
Pécs Little Gallery presents the posters by
KARI PIIPPO
(30 YEARS = 60 POSTERS)
31. 07. 2009 – 23. 08. 2009
Official opening Friday 31st July 5pm
Opening speach and presentation of the exhibition by
István Orosz graphic designer, professor of the West Hungarian University

Graphic designer Kari Piippo (1945) lives and works in Mikkeli Finland. He is a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI). Kari had been chosen to exhibit in Pécs as the winner of the last years’ Posters/Plakátok International Competition in Pécsi Gallery.
http://pecsikult.hu/en/events/show/36955/exhibition-of-kari-piippohttp://www.piippo.com/kari/
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Kari says when Einstein had realised that the universe and all its wonders may be written down in one formula: E=mc2 he didn't stop but began thinking which type, Futura or Antiqua, would it be more appropriate to put down in. Mass-energy equivalence might have been given and explained more complicatedly but it is because of its inner grace that the formula is so charming and probably this beauty hidden in its simplicity is exactly what makes it embraceable, understandable for many of us.
Rightly so with posters. Real posters, Kari Piippo posters. They are manifestations of the only formula, which is simplified to core and incompressible. Indeed, their secret lies in their toollessness. They begin where words end. I am glad to open the exhibition of Kari Piippo, great artist and good friend, however I understand the difficulty, the inner dissolvable paradox of the venture. Can we talk about visual communication? May we? Should we? I have certain experience in expressing myself when I'm in another medium and sometimes I even teach my poor students how to talk about pictures, translate the message; but practice is different. Imagine how awkward it'd be to explain Kari's 1986 Piaf poster. The weak tower of letters, bound to fall, under lights, the waving, quitting letter A all stand for both the glitter of the stage and the singer's personal tragedy what's more, for some weird reason, I am inclined to hear the weary, scratchy sound of chansons, too. Another major work, also displayed here, is a theatre poster for The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. We may be able to put together reasonable phrases about the symbol of the black panther thrown over the shoulder or the skill by which the outline of a positive figure rips the silhouette of a negative form, but what should we say about the way the only agressive colour of the poster, the red of the lipstick captures and holds our gaze and evokes the play's absurd tragedy immediately, even 20 years after. We would have to recite the tragic life of Willy Loman, Arthur Miller's salesman, if we wished to substitute the poster's brick-heavy suitcase with words, just as we could only stand at the edge of the Hamlet poster's H-shaped grave having all the letters of "to be or not to be…" written down a hundred times and memorised. Indeed, one accurately drawn line, good choice of colour, sensibly placed form might stand for hundreds of words, sentences. Very often, however, we can't succeed even with the myriad of words.

INVITATION

In the framework of the Pécs – Ars GEometrica 2009 project, the Pécs Cultural Centre cordially invites you on Thursday, 18 June 2009, 7.30 PM to the Museum of Dom to the Opening of István OROSZ's Exhibition – 'Lessons on Semblances'
Opening by George W. HART research professor of Stony Brook University, New York. Johann Sebastian BACH: Little Harmonic Labyrinth – performed by Mrs. Katalin POÓR GÁL organist.
The exhibition is open 18-29 June in the Museum of Dom (H-7621 Pécs, Káptalan u. 8.).
Information: fenyvesi.kristof@pecsikult.hu

HOMMAGE TO ALFONS MUCHA

International Poster Exhibition "Hommage to Alfons Mucha". Connected to the temporary exhibition of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts and organized by The Hungarian Poster Society.
The participants: Árendás József, Bakos István, Balogh István, Baráth Ferenc, Darvas Árpád, Ducki Krzysztof, Felvidéki András, Gyárfás Gábor, Kapitány Attila, Kemény György, Keresztes Dóra, Kulinyi István, Lance Rutter, Orosz István, Pinczehelyi Sándor, Pócs Péter, Szilvásy Nándor, Szugyiczky István, Tóth Tamás, Varga Gábor Farkas, Yann Legendre.
Vernisage: 27 May (Wednesday) 2009, 6 pm. On view until 15 June, from Monday to Friday between 9 am and 5 pm. Polish Institute - Exhibition Hall, Budapest, VI. Nagymezo u. 15.