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Michel Quarez in Stedelijk Museum
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| 17th February Stedelijk Museum opens an exhibition of Michel Quarez. Quarez is famous for his posters. He prefers themes, which he can find in his immediate neighbourhood, the Paris suburb of Saint Denis. Quarez creates two extreme kinds of posters – they are either characterised by a vivid, bright colours or they are realised in black-and-white palette. Quarez was born in 1938 in Damascus and had completed his training in Paris at l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, and then he worked for a year with Henryk Tomaszewski at the Academy in Warsaw in 1961. After it he moved to New York, where he developed the comic strip Mode Love. He returned in Paris he spent some years as an illustrator, until he began to design posters toward the end of the 1980s. During his life he has received a number of international prizes. For the graphic design collection at the Stedelijk Museum the posters of Michel Quarez are a fine continuation of the tradition of the French painting poster designers already represented, such as Cassandre, Loupot, Savignac and many others. |
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