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For immediate release
March 12, 2009 |
Washington, D.C. – This spring, Georgetown University’s Special Collections Research Center will present Screening Prints: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema Posters, 1959 – 2009, a retrospective of Cuban movie posters. The exhibition, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), will be displayed in the Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery on the fifth floor of Georgetown’s Lauinger Library.
Over the past 50 years, ICAIC, also known as the Cuban Institute of Art and Film Industry, has commissioned Cuban artists to produce posters for every movie shown on the island, both Cuban-made and international. Using a form of silk screening, artists have produced posters that serve as both promotional materials striking, original works.
"The exhibition,” says John Buschman, associate university librarian for scholarly resources and services, “is a wonderful sampling of the vibrancy of cinema poster art in Cuba, and the innovative development of style and technique in producing them over a period of 50 years."
The exhibit features more than two dozen Cuban movie posters from Georgetown’s collection of more than 300 original works. The posters, designed by noted Cuban artists such as Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, Antonio “Ñiko” Marino and Antonio Fernández Reboiro, represent a variety of genres including national films and documentaries, foreign films, film festivals, film characters and propaganda.
The retrospective – organized by guest curators Patricia Soler, Álvaro Baquero-Pecino and Pedro Cruz, all doctoral candidates in the university’s Spanish and Portuguese department –will run from March 13 through June 30. Visitors to the Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery are required to show identification upon entering the building.
For more information about the exhibit or other special collections at Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library, please visit the special collections website.
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