The Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) is the only exhibition of its kind in the United States.
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Colorado International Honor Laureate, Directors and High School Exhibition CIIPE highlights excellence in poster design from around the world. The 14th exhibition features work by 86 artists from 34 countries. The program strives to exhibit and interpret poster design in order to bring outstanding examples of visual communication to an American audience and to promote international understanding and tolerance through the graphic arts and artistic dialogue. A full color catalogue, documenting the exhibition, will be available. Despite digital innovations in disseminating information, posters, first utilized in the 19th century remain a vital and viable communication tool, responsive to our changing world in the 21st century. The exhibition also features the work of Colombian designer Marta Granados, honor laureate for the 14th exhibition. Granados has carried out important projects for the Ministry of Culture, the Colombian Foreign Office, and the Museum of Modern Art in her native Colombia. Her professional work has been primarily related to the cultural and ecological activity of Colombia and promoting a positive visual identity for the people of her country. She is Professor of Graphic Design at the National University. This exhibition is supported by the Colorado Council on the Arts, the Fort Collin’s Fort Fund and Citizen Printing. |
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Visiting Critic: Rick Poynor Poynor is one of the most prolific writers in the field of design, media and visual culture. He founded Eye magazine in 1990 and remained the editor for 7 years. Poynor is a columnist for Print magazine in New York and has covered design, media and culture for more than 40 publications around the world, including Blueprint, Frieze, Domus, I.D., Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian and The Financial Times. Poynor is the author of 12 books including Typography Now: The Next Wave, Typographica, Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World and No More Rules. This last text is a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism. In addition to writing Poynor has taught at the Royal College of Art in London and lectured extensively both in the U.S. and abroad. He was guest curator of the exhibition “Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties,” which opened at the Barbican Centre in London in 2004. This lecture is part of the Department of Art’s Critic and Artist Residency Series, made possible by the FUNd at CSU. |
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Rembrandt:
The Consummate Etcher and Other 17th Century Printmakers Rembrandt is generally considered one of the most important figures in western art history, a ranking that has been remarkably stable in the three hundred years since his death. Typically, it is his painting that garners the most attention, but his etchings demonstrate the same virtuoso style, diversity of subjects and vitality that he generated with his brush. Rembrandt created nearly 300 original etchings during his career, taking full advantage of the technical possibilities of the medium. This exhibition brings together the printed work of Rembrandt and sixteen of his contemporaries. Arranged in thematic groups of landscapes, genre, portraits and religious subjects, visitors may discover the similarities and differences, as well as the technical achievements of these talented individuals. This exhibition comes to Colorado State courtesy of the Syracuse University Art Collection. |
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Photographs of Edward Ranney: Monuments
and Landscapes of Ancient America January 30 – March 3, 2006 Opening Reception, Monday, January 30, 2006, 5-7 p.m. Noted American photographer, Edward Ranney, was first recognized for his photographic studies Stonework of the Maya (1974) and Monuments of the Inca (1982). This substantial body of work is devoted to pre-Columbian art and architecture and an understanding of the alliance between these monuments and their geographic surroundings. Ranney first became captivated with these cultures when he traveled to Peru on a Fulbright Fellowship in the1960s for anthropological and literary fieldwork after completing studies at Yale University. This initial visit developed into a lifelong fascination with archeological monuments and their relationship to landscape. This exhibition will feature a survey of Ranney’s work from his early Mayan photographs, his work on the highland Inca, through the more recent Andean desert project. These photographs have been described as emotionally charged through the rendered tension between ruins emerging from the desert and the vast expanses of open spaces. |
Matt Mullican, Untitled, 1993, silkscreen, 29-1/2” x 21-1/2” |
Matt Mullican: Selections from the
Collection of Mark and Polly Addison March 20 – April 21, 2006 Reception, Monday, March 27, 5-7 p.m. Visiting Artist: Matt Mullican Public Lecture: Details from an Imaginary Universe: A Lecture in Three Parts Spanning 35 Years of Work Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 6 p.m., University Center for the Arts, Griffin Concert Hall New York based artist Matt Mullican, throughout his three-decade career, has developed a multi-faceted and complex body of work that encompasses a wide range of media including banners, posters, stained glass, prints, painted aluminum, carved stones, photography and performance. Since the early 1980s his work has focused on a stratified metaphysical construction, a cosmology, based on a vocabulary of signs and images that are both generic and personal. This exhibition will feature works, in a variety of media, from the collection of Mark and Polly Addison including a portfolio of screenprints and etchings that correspond to the artist’s notebooks from 1972 to 1992, giving insight into the development of the Mullican’s work, and his hypertext project created for Documenta X. Mullican’s work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe and can be found in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art: Los Angeles. This exhibition and artist visit is part of the Department of Art’s Critic and Artist Residency Series, made possible by the FUNd at CSU and with the generous assistance of Mark and Polly Addison. |
