{"id":21665,"date":"2019-03-01T16:21:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anfocal.ie\/?p=21665"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:23:55","slug":"limerick-city-galllery-of-art-poster-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anfocal.ie\/index.php\/limerick-city-galllery-of-art-poster-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick City Gallery Of Art Poster Exhibit – A High-Brow Day Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jessica Doyle<\/p>\n

Graphics, text, and colour.<\/p>\n

Posters are pieces of art from the every day \u2013 and they\u2019ve got a job to do.<\/p>\n

Not only do they disseminate information \u2013 but they can also amuse, attract and challenge us \u2013 a function more readily associated with highbrow arts.<\/p>\n

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A rich and varied collection of posters from all across Europe \u2013 many from Germany – are now on display in Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA).<\/p>\n

The collection was donated to LCGA by a Kerry man called Michael O\u2019Connor. His eclectic taste allows for a wonderfully contrasting exhibit which spans many different places and styles.<\/p>\n

The compelling thing about a poster is that it transports you to another time and place.<\/p>\n

It makes you imagine all of the people who would have seen it and gone to the event that it promoted.<\/p>\n

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This poster for an exhibition of the commercial art \u201cgebrauchsgrafik\u201d of Gerhard Voigt in Berlin is one of my favourites thanks to its colour, symmetry and striking optical-illusion graphics.<\/p>\n

A small room of the exhibit is given over to beautiful illustrations for literary events in Listowel, the collector\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n

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Text becomes the focus in another small room where a wall is devoted to the display of the different fonts offered by Conway\u2019s Photosetting in Dublin.<\/p>\n

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The exhibit also includes a gem for movie-lovers in the form of this German poster for Jean Luc Godard\u2019s film Une Femme est Une Femme which displays an eye-catching, minimalist design.<\/p>\n

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The Michael O\u2019Connor Poster Collection provides a delightful hour of diversion. The posters will invite you to the 1972 Olympics in Munich, modern-art exhibitions at Pompidou and Writer\u2019s Week in Listowel all while giving you the opportunity to appreciate their artistic design.<\/p>\n

The exhibit is running until 17 March 2019 and admission is free.<\/p>\n

All photos courtesy of Michael O\u2019Connor\u2019s Poster Collection, part Limerick City Gallery of Art Collections.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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By Jessica Doyle Graphics, text, and colour. Posters are pieces of art from the every day \u2013 and they\u2019ve got a job to do. Not only do they disseminate information \u2013 but they can also amuse, attract and challenge us \u2013 a function more readily associated with highbrow arts. A rich and varied collection of […]<\/p>\n

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