Deadly and Brutal: Film Posters from Ghana
Pinakothek der Moderne, Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum, Munich, DE
April 1 – June 26, 2011
Statement: «Graphic design from West Africa: This exhibition of the Neue Sammlung shows hand-painted posters advertising action films produced in Africa since the 1980s and Hollywood blockbusters. The large-format works by the poster painters reveal a wholely unique, drastic, and occasionally shocking graphic language in which local myths are included as well as stylistic devices found in the commercial advertising strategies of western industrial countries. As a result, the posters go way beyond the allure of pure exoticism. This form of African graphic design poses questions about ‘political correctness’, about visual habits and pictorial traditions, about cultural constitutions and cultural transfer.
With this exhibition of posters from the Collection Dr. Wolfgang Staebler, Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich housed in Pinakothek der Moderne – would like to extend a welcome to its latest neighbour, the HFF (University of Television and Film Munich), whose new building in the Kunstareal museum complex is opening in 2011.»
