Event
CUBAN POSTERS FOR FILMS From the Takeo Poster Collection
Jun 1, 2016 (wed) – Jul 24, 2016(sun)
Hours:
9:30 ~ 17:00/Tuesday ~ Thursday・Weekend, national holiday（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
9:30 ~ 20:00/Friday（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday
Admission:
Adult: 4300yen(220),
University students: 130yen(70),
High school students and under 15 years of age:free
(Advance)
http://www.momak.go.jp/English/exhibitionArchive/2016/413.html
Venue
The National Museum of Modern Art , Kyoto
http://www.momak.go.jp/English/
Access: Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8344,Japan
Tel: 075-761-4111
Hours:
9:30 ~ 17:00/Tuesday ~ Thursday・Weekend, national holiday（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
9:30 ~ 20:00/Friday（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday
Description
Did you know that the Caribbean island country of Cuba is a country of movie posters? Long noted for its attractive music and dance, Cuba is also a “little big” cinematic country. It has produced a string of stylistically progressive films since the 1959 revolution with the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) as its base. Known as the location of the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (International Festival of New Latin American Cinema), the capital Havana is one of the centers of Latin American film.
Cuba adopted a “revolutionary” means of film publicity; a unique policy of their film industry that cannot be found anywhere else. They commissioned a variety of designers and painters to create movie posters, and used hand operated silkscreen techniques instead of offset printing which is suited to mass production. Inspired by the films themselves, the rich colors and gorgeous expression created by artists such as Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, René Azcuy Cárdenas, and Antonio Fernández Reboiro added new value to the films, and made these posters lively artworks.
This exhibition co-hosted by National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, introduces a total of 85 posters created from the revolutionary era up to around 1990, mainly from the Takeo Poster Collection, which is deposited at the Tama Art University. Focusing on posters for many foreign films imported into Cuba as well as Cuban ones, it will be your guide to this unknown “movie poster paradise”.
