Homework: Polish poster design

drawing of the bottom half of a nude female body in white, drawn against a red background with black polish text on the bottom

Bringing up Girls in Bohemia, 2007.

(Image credit: press)

Warsaw-based graphic design studio, Homework, has - for the past seven years - been working to resurrect the neglected art of Polish poster design.

Formed in 2003 by Joanna Gorska and Jerzy Skakun, Homework has been credited - by design writer Ellen Lupton - with 'bringing the medium of Polish posters back to life', and this month’s exhibition at London's Kemistry Gallery will pay tribute
to the fact.

Featuring fifty prints - including cinema and theatre posters - the exhibition showcases Homework's blocky, bright-hued style - which, whilst nodding at past greats such as Mieczyslaw Wasilewski and Wiktor Gorka, has established its own
visual dialect.

Littered with exhibition invites from galleries in Paris, Berlin and beyond - alongside several prizes from international biennales - Kemistry's six week exhibition will be Homework's first UK outing.

A drawing in the shape of a man's head (sideview) with a tophat on and cigarette is his mouth, drawn against a red background with text at the top and bottom of the image — Casablanca, 2009.

Drawing of a man in a green convertible car against yellow background with green text at the top and bottom of the image — Drive, 2006.

Black funnel shaped drawing with a water drop at the bottom end of the funnel, drawn against a pink background with black polish text at the top left — Fando i Lis, 2009.

A gun shaped trumphet in yellow against a purple background with white polish text at the top left — Gucha - Distant Trumpet, 2008.

A cone shaped image with an evil eye at its peak, against a blue background — Holy Mountain, 2009.

Visual of a head with a top man hat (drawn in black) against an off green background — Kret, 2009.

Cone shaped paper against grey background with black text — Over the Mountain Silence Prevails, 2008.

Drawing of a red 3 blade desk fan against a black background with Polish text under the fan — Przeminelo z Wiatrem, 2009.

Top left is a drawing of a man's face with a black moustache blowing air into beer jug that looks like a face with long blonde hair. captured against orange background — Short Cut, 2009.

4 legs (one shaved and one stubbled) in black shoes against a red bacground. Polish text below the legs — Some Like it Hot, 2008.

ADDRESS

Kemistry Gallery
43 Charlotte Road
London
EC2A 3PD

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