One of the main creators of the "Polish Poster School." He specialised in posters, graphic art in press and publishing graphic art, photography and the art of exhibition arrangement. Cieślewicz studied at the Poster Faculty of Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (diploma in the poster studio of Jerzy Karolak and Maciej Makarewicz in 1955). He designed the graphic layout of the Projekt artistic magazine (together with Wojciech Zamecznik and Józef Mroszczak), the Ty i Ja monthly, Opus International, VST, the Musique en Jeu magazine and the Kitsch quarterly. Between 1965 and 1969, he was the artistic director of Elle. Cieślewicz received recognition for designing graphic layouts of catalogues for the Parisian Centre Pompidou. He had over one hundred individual exhibitions of graphic art, posters and photography and participated in all the important presentations of poster art in Poland and worldwide. Works in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Cracow, Poznań, Wrocław, the Wilanów Poster Museum, Essen, Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou and Musée d` Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Library of Congress in the USA and in private collections.
1976
collage, gelatin silver prints, 18.5 x 29.5 cm,
signature, date and description on the reverse,
unique object
vintage prints
The work is an illustration for Kamikaze I, a "panic information" magazine designed and published by Cieślewicz in 1976 specifically for the Panique group, of which he was a member. The second and, at the same time, the last issue of the magazine was published in 1991.
Exhibition: Latent Capital. 20th Century Photography from the Collection of Cezary Pieczyński, the Wilanów Palace Museum, Warsaw (2010).
One of the main creators of the "Polish Poster School." He specialised in posters, graphic art in press and publishing graphic art, photography and the art of exhibition arrangement. Cieślewicz studied at the Poster Faculty of Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (diploma in the poster studio of Jerzy Karolak and Maciej Makarewicz in 1955). He designed the graphic layout of the Projekt artistic magazine (together with Wojciech Zamecznik and Józef Mroszczak), the Ty i Ja monthly, Opus International, VST, the Musique en Jeu magazine and the Kitsch quarterly. Between 1965 and 1969, he was the artistic director of Elle. Cieślewicz received recognition for designing graphic layouts of catalogues for the Parisian Centre Pompidou. He had over one hundred individual exhibitions of graphic art, posters and photography and participated in all the important presentations of poster art in Poland and worldwide. Works in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Cracow, Poznań, Wrocław, the Wilanów Poster Museum, Essen, Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou and Musée d` Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Library of Congress in the USA and in private collections.