An international poster event organised by Jan Rajlich Jr. and the Brno Biennial Association will show 100 original posters created following an invitation to a hundred designers from 30 countries around the world as homage to the founder of the International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, the painter and graphic artist Jan Rajlich Sr. (1920-2016).
The event takes place under the auspices of the ICO-D International Council of Design in Montreal, Bohumil Šimek, governor of the South-Moravian Region and JUDr. Markéta Vaňková, mayor of the City of Brno.
The exhibition is part of the Moravian Gallery's project RAJLICH 100 and is incorporated in the series of exhibitions by the Brno Biennial Association entitled Brno - the Capital of Graphic Design (No. 73).
Organiser: SBB / Brno Biennial Association /
Co-organiser of the exhibition: Moravian Gallery in Brno
The author of the exhibition, Jan Rajlich Jr., based the brief for the invited designers on the fact that Jan Rajlich Sr. was famous around the world as:
- a designer of posters,
typographer, pioneer of corporate design and information graphics
in the Czech Republic
- founder of the International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno
and for 30 years president of the Organisational Committee
(1963-1992)
- a writer, teacher and organiser of cultural life
- someone who strove to merge design and art in his work
- someone who promoted the design of visual communication and its
respect in society
The exhibition of 100 original posters to honour the centenary of the birth of the painter and graphic artist Jan Rajlich Sr., the founder of the Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, will present original posters created specifically for this event by 100 invited artists from 30 countries around the world. They include a number of icons of graphic design and poster art from the Czech Republic and the world.
From Brno: František Borovec, Jiří Eliška, Václav Houf, Alena Jedličková, Boris Mysliveček, Jan Rajlich Jr. and Martin Skalický. From the Czech Republic: Karel Aubrecht, Peter Bankov, Pavel Beneš, Michal Cihlář, Václav Johanus, Petr Kubín, Dagmar Kučerová-Lanatová, Karel Míšek, Vladimír Netolička, Aleš Najbrt, Pavel Noga, Jaroslav Pejčoch, Zdeněk Světlík, Jindřich Štreit, Jiří Toman and Zdeněk Ziegler.
From Slovakia: Andrej Haščák, Fero Jablonovský, Pavel Choma, Peter Javorík, Dušan Junek, Mykola Kovalenko, Vladislav Rostoka, Stanislav Stankoci, Vladimír Vološin and Jozef Vydrnák.
From the world (selection): Eduardo Barrera Arambarri MX, Xavier Bermúdez MX, Subrata Bhowmick IN, Ken Cato AU, Jochen Fiedler DE, Stasys Eidrigevicius LT, Jianping He CN/DE, Fons Hickmann DE, Vladimir Chaika RU, Seymour Chwast US, Paul Ibou BE, Piotr Kunce PL, Helmut Langer DE, Yossi Lemel IL, Leo Lin TW, Rico Lins BR, Uwe Loesch DE, Pekka Loiri FI, João Machado PT, Lech Majewski PL, Piotr Młodożeniec PL, Keizo Matsui JP, Chaz Maviyane-Davies ZA/US, Finn Nygaard DK, István Orosz HU, Ryszard Otręba PL, Robert L. Peters CA, Kari Piippo FI, Chen Pingbo CN, Władysław Pluta PL, Péter Pócs HU, Alain Le Quernec FR, Dan Reisinger IL †, Phil Risbeck US, Mehdi Saedi IR, U. G. Sato JP, Felipe Taborda BR, Fumio Tachibana JP, Kan Tai-Keung CN, David Tartakover IL, Parisa Tashakori IR/US, Boris Trofimov RU, Niklaus Troxler CH, Oleg Veklenko UA, Gert Wunderlich DE, Xu Wang CN and others...
100 posters by 100 designers will be displayed in the Governor's Palace of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.
The Rajlich 100 project is an intentional pause in the traditional Biennial marathon with the aim of looking back at the history of the Brno Biennial from the perspective of the creative fortunes of its founder, Jan Rajlich Sr., an important figure on the Brno scene of international renown, who can take credit for making the Brno Biennial and the city of Brno a fixture on the international map of graphic design.
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THE RAJLICH 100 PROJECT
With the RAJLICH 100 exhibition project in 2020 the Moravian Gallery in Brno in collaboration with the Brno Biennial Association will mark the centenary of the birth of the Brno painter and graphic artist Jan Rajlich, the world-famous founder of the Brno Biennial. He was born in the small village of Dírná in South Bohemia between Tábor and Jindřichův Hradec as the fourth son of blacksmith Karel V. Rajlich. He completed grammar school in Jindřichův Hradec (1930-1939) and Baťa's Art School in Zlín (1939-1944). From 1950 he settled in Brno where he was initially active as a painter and graphic artist and soon afterwards as graphic designer and leading organiser of cultural life.
Jan Rajlich made himself famous in the world as the initiator and long-term chairman of the International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno (1963-1992). He received more than forty international awards for his organisational, theoretical, artistic and writing efforts in the development of graphic design and visual communication, including several awards by the International Council of Communication Design ICOGRADA (1972, 1983, 1985 and 2002). In 1995 he received the Award of the City of Brno for his contribution to the cultural development of the city and results of his own creative work by which he touched on most areas of visual communication design. Rajlich's artistic, organisational and writing achievements in the field of graphic design rank him with the important figures of world's graphic design of the second half of the 20th century. He was an artist and designer, as well as writer, teacher and organiser of cultural life, who was an inspiration for founders of similar periodic exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia arriving in Brno to gain experience.
