Hommage à Toulouse-Lautrec |
client | GrDesign mag / Benaki Museum |
| In 2017 I was honoured to design one of the 16 posters that were the Greek entries in the international poster exhibition "Le Nouveau Salon des Cent, Exposition Internationale d' Affiches, Hommage à Toulouse-Lautrec" organized at the Benaki Museum by AlphaBank and GrDesign magazine.
In 2001, on the centenary of the death of the great French painter and poster artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one hundred leading graphic designers and artists from around the world, designed a poster to honor him. The posters were presented at the exhibition "Le Nouveau Salon des Cent, Exposition Internationale d' Affiches, Hommage à Toulouse-Lautrec" at the Center Pompidou in Paris. Sixteen years later, the exhibition came to Athens at the Benaki Museum, enriched with sixteen posters designed by an equal number of Greek creators. I was honoured to be one of them. The exhibition "The New Salon of 100+16" was organized by AlphaBank and GrDesign magazine and opened on September 25, 2017. The poster I designed plays with the dark and light of the quirky artist's life. Utilizing the positive-negative space with a single one-line stroke, Lautrec's characters and figures compose the labyrinth of his art. There is only one escape route, the one in the red looking glass that marks Toulouse-Lautrec's profile in the center of the poster. The poster is completed with the hand-lettered title 'Hommage à Toulouse-Lautrec'. The following text accompanied the poster in the exhibition catalogue: To be honest, |
year | 2017 |
| category | Poster | |
| tags | art & culture custom type featured illustration single-line-design |
From the exhibition at the Benaki Museum, between the posters of two great masters, Dimitris Arvanitis on the left and Michalis Katzourakis on the right.
