Pictures of the World: The Global Poster at Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen. October 2 2009 – January 31 2010.
The exhibition includes the 70 x 100 cm Beat The Planet-poster for the 1993 Dub the Universe tour with Prodigy as headliner. The poster is designed by Halvor Bodin with 3D illustration by Marius Watz. This was the first large format poster printed in full colour for the rave scene in Norway. The client was Zone Productions. The poster is also featured in the book Den Norske Plakaten (The History of the Norwegian poster), Jorunn Veiteberg, Pax 1998.
Information on the exhibition:
Swinging skirts, surrealistically distorted faces, monocle wearing men, aggressive war propaganda, richly illustrated tourist posters, introvert anti war missiles, humoristic advertising figures and a stencilled President Obama.
The comprehensive international exhibition Pictures of the World: The Global Poster at the Danish Museum of Art & Design with more than 300 posters designed by the most predominant poster designers in the World offers visual stories and a rare insight into the history and development of the poster through almost 200 years
Poster icons like Jules Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, Chagall, Cassandre, Lenica og Fukuda as well as several of the best Danish graphic artists from Valdemar Andersen and Sven Brasch to Per Arnoldi and Finn Nygaard are represented. Through its presentation of man the poster shows different features of the development of fashion. The exhibition shows widely different techniques, styles, artists and visual expressions, presented in an international and urban perspective.
Divided into advertising, politics and culture the exhibition shows outstanding examples of the greatest, the best, the funniest, the strangest, the most beautiful and the most kitschy posters. In this way the poster is shown in its width, grandeur as well as its craziness, as the poster is not only art and design but a dynamic picture of the World as it looked before and as it looks now.
Pictures of the World: The Global Poster is therefore not only an ambitious retrospective exhibition of posters, but an exhibition of graphic communication of a world in constant change. A world of pictures formed by the global poster, which now can be seen, perceived and experienced by everybody.
An exhibition of posters, which like this one combines historical depth with a global stamp and description of the present value of the media has never before been put on show in Denmark.
The curator of the exhibition is the head librarian of the Danish Museum of Art and Design Lars Dybdahl, M.A., who simultaneously launches his book The Global Poster published by Nyt Nordisk Forlag.