1985 Polish Theater Art Poster RZRZNA (Slaughterhouse) Art by J. Czerniawski

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1985 Polish Theater Art Poster RZRZNA  (Slaughterhouse) Art by J. Czerniawski
ORIGINAL THEATER ART POSTER in Very good condition.  From the production Rzeznai (Slaughterhouse) written by Skawomin Mrozek with original art by Jerzy Czerniawski.  Poster is complete, but Exhibit's wrinkles on the bottom Where it was improperly rolled for storage.  The wrinkles extend up Approx 1-1/4" from the bottom at the widest and taper down to zero over approx 32"s    Excellent example of vintage creative Polish Art school work by oppressed up and coming artists.    Please see photos to evaluate condition for yourself.  Photos are part of the description.
Jerzy Czerniawski works in graphic art, painting, drawing and posters * born in 1947 in Kwiatow, Poland * studied at the State College of Plastic Art in Wrocław * Posters in collection of
MoMA
(NY) * major awards: Bronze Medal, International Poster Biennale in Warsaw 1974; second prize, Poster Biennale in Lahti 1977; Silver Plaque, International Film Festival in Chicago 1981
The Slaughterhouse
A year before
The Emigrants,
Mrożek had published
Rzeźnia / The Slaughterhouse
(1973), a radio play whose stage adaptation was directed by
Jerzy Jarocki
at the
Teatr Dramatyczny
in Warsaw in 1975. In
The Slaughterhouse
, the playwright writes about the condition and meaning of art, showing through a distorting mirror the conflict between tradition and the avant-garde, and between culture and nature. The protagonist of the radio play, a violinist, is an untalented mummy's boy who offers his youth to the spirit of Paganini in return for musical genius, willing to do anything to win back a flautist. But Paganini turns into a butcher, and the philharmonic becomes a slaughterhouse where a concert for two oxen, a battleaxe, a knife and an axe will take place. Mrożek mocks the Witkacy-like myth of the artist to whom the Mystery of Existence is revealed, as well as art that wants to compete with life in terms of "guts". Błoński writes about the play that,
Mrożek says quite clearly that he cannot believe in the metaphysics of art, but also that rolling around in meat and splashing passers-by with paint arouses within him reluctance and disgust. He asks for moderate art, as it were, but at the same time he admits, at least in The Slaughterhouse, that he can only call for moderation through mockery.
Błoński notes, however, that the action of the play takes place entirely in the imagination of the violinist, emphasising the author's own detachment from the events and arguments presented in the play. It is quite possible that the entire plot is just the creation of the mind of one individual, with whom the author does not personally identify. Therefore,
The Slaughterhouse
can be considered, like Gombrowicz's
The Marriage
, to be part of the trend toward what is called
Ich-Dramaturgie
, or "I" dramaturgy. Over time, the individual and his subjective world began to take on more importance in Mrożek's work.
About The Poster
: Polish posters have come to stand apart from the advertising design conventions fostered in Europe during the 20th century. It was during the communist regime, a time when culture was closely monitored by the state, that Polish artists found liberation in poster art. Ironically, this foremost public artform became ground for individual expression. During that period, the cultural institutions (of theatre and cinema especially) flourished as they were funded by government agencies. Artists freshly out of the fine arts academy flocked towards poster production as the demand for this art was rapidly growing. The result became some of the most unique and expressive posters the world has ever seen - and artworks in themselves.
This and other pieces of Polish poster art we will be listing in the near future come from the personal collection of a Polish artist who collected personally and then ultimately opened and ran a small museum dedicated to to Polish graphic arts until it's closing for health reasons.
Shipped in a high quality cardboard tube
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