Zdeněk Ziegler

Personalities in Czech Graphic Design

16th June - 30th October 2016
Museum of Applied Arts (Husova 14)

On the occasion of the 25th Brno Biennial 2012 Zdeněk Ziegler received the Award for Lifelong Contribution to Graphic Design.

The exhibition of this outstanding Czech graphic designer and teacher introduces primarily his extensive work in the film poster domain from the beginning of the 1960s to the end of the 1980s.

Through exhibits showing his completed commissions to sketches and designs which did not materialize the display shows a medium which in its time has defined the visual language and aesthetics of a whole generation of graphic designers and which with its variety and inventive approach has provided a source of inspiration to this day.

In this way the Brno Biennial continues the series introducing important designers who have essentially influenced the development and form of Czech graphic design, a discipline that is an indelible part of Czech visual culture.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a film festival composed exclusively of films for which Zdeněk Ziegler created the posters.

For the very first time, the exhibition presents a selection of Zdeněk Ziegler's sketches and hand made originals, from which the movie posters were then reproduced in two formats - A3 and A1. Seven enlarged posters are shown 'double-faced' - one side displaying the original version for the movie release in its country of origin, the other showing the design by Zdeněk Ziegler promoting the same movie in Czechoslovakia. The exhibition display, arranged as an imaginary timeline, is complemented with a selection of the artist's posters from the Moravian Gallery collection.