Ceremonial opening of an art exhibition takes place in SUSU art hall (Lenin ave. 76, 1st floor) on 14th April 2014 at 14:00. SUSU department of service and art material technology together with the informational center of atomic field in Chelyabinsk present an international exhibition “Mayakovsky 120”. The exhibition “Mayakovsky 120 is international posters move dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky, which has begun in 19th July 2013. During this time the exhibition has been opened in many different cities and countries and now, on the death day of the poet – 14th April – it comes to Chelyabinsk.
As part of the move, outstanding Russian and international graphic designers has created many posters dedicated to the poet and his works. Russia is presented by maître of graphic design such as Petr Bankov, Yuriy Gulitov, Igor Gurovich, Andrey Logvin, Boris Trofimov, Faldiny, Vladimir Chaika and Nikolai Shtok as well as less known – Dmitriy Zakharov, Anna Kulachek, Stefan Lashko, Dmitriy Rekin and Ivan Yakushev.
“Rest of the World” consists of Madjid Abbasi (Iran), Oleg Veklenko (Ukraine), Radovan Ienko (Slovenia), Marko Kekishev (Estonia), Alan Le Kerneque (France), Uve Leush (Germany), Andrew Luis (Canada), Lekh Maevski (Poland), Dan Raisinger (Israel), Kari Piippo (Finland), Phil Risbec (USA), Olga Severina (USA), Leonardo Sonnoli (Italy and Niklaus Troksler (Switzerland). Russian designer Fedor Ro has created logo and move poster. Sergey Serov, the president of International Moscow graphic design biennale “Golden Bee”, acts as a case manager of this move.
Vladimir Mayakovsky is one of the most outstanding figures of Russian avant-garde, representing this innovative movement. His name is associated with futurism and constructivism, visual language of modernism and new forms of agitation “extravagant language of poster” creating, in his biography and poetry refracted dramas experienced by the country in the first third of the XX century.
Together with Alexander Rodchenko he made a contribution to the development of new visual forms of graphic design and posting, innovative photographing and montage technics.
According to the memoirs of Rodchenko, they “worked with great enthusiasm, ... to promote new posting everywhere. All of Moscow was beautified with our products ... We made up of fifty posters, hundreds of signs, packages, wrappers, electric signs, promotional pillars, illustrations in magazines and newspapers ... Mayakovsky had strong views on soviet commercial work”.
Poet and artist also collaborated in the magazines “LEF” and “New LEF” where Mayakovsky was an author and editor and Rodchenko was creating magazine covers. Rodchenko got up thirteen books of Mayakovsky and the first complete works of the poet. Mayakovsky, being overseas where his book “For voice” got up El Lissitzky, gave Rodchenko an idea to illustrate the book “About this” with photomontage. During this collaboration the universal language of the avant-garde photomontage had been created, combining text and photographic image. Searching of visual system compliance with poetics of Mayakovsky with telegraphic lines of his poems, full of unexpected combinations, capacious and energetic metaphors allowed to create “examples of the closest occurrence of illustration in the text”, provoked a revolutionary changes in design, the importance of which can hardly be overestimated even today.
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