OPUS INTERNATIONAL 2
Juillet 1967
Jean-Clarence Lambert [Editor], Roman Cieslewicz [Designer]
Jean-Clarence Lambert [Editor], Roman Cieslewicz [Designer]: OPUS INTERNATIONAL 2. Paris: Editions Georges Fall, Juillet 1967. Text in French. Quarto. Perfect bound thick printed wrappers. 108 pp. Illustrated articles and advertisements. Period correct graphic design, typography and cover design by Roman Cieslewicz. Holographic plastic eye intact. Wrappers lightly shelfworn, but a very good or better copy.
7 x 10.5 softcover journal with 108 pages fully illustrated in black and white.
Opus International was conceived by a collective of art critics determined to open Paris and the French art world to a new era. Under the leadership of the publisher Georges Fall , founder of the collection “The Pocket Museum,” and served by the art direction of Roman Cieslewicz, this review assembled contributors from a variety of backgrounds including Jean-Clarence Lambert , who proposes the title of the journal, Anne Tronche , Pierre Gaudibert , Alain Jouffroy , Gérald Gassiot-Talabot , Jean-Louis Pradel , Raoul Jean Moulin , Jean-Jacques Lévêque and Denise Miège. “We wish, without any prejudice or prejudices, to invite to the confrontation all those for whom the present is a function of a future of which they do not want to be disappointed”wrote Publisher publisher Georges Fall in April 1967.
- Le Cahier de "La Chinoise" by Jean-Luc Godard
- Une affaire à règler avec le monde entire by Alain Jouffroy
- Pour Magritte by André Pieyre de Mandiargues
- Sémantiques de la couleur et chromathérapie by Claude Bellegarde
- Eveil: Film de Peter Foldès
- Un vocabulaire de la couleur pour le cinema by Jean-Daniel Pollet
- Baruchello et l'écriture du hazard by Alain Jouffroy
- Hernandez et la signification du mythe by Raoul-Jean Moulin
- La fonction oblique: architecture ou mystique? by Gérald Gassiot-Talabot
- Jean Filhos; l'imagination de la forme by Jean-Clarence Lambert
- Le feu de joie de Daniel Humair by Jean-Jacques Lévêque
- A propos du Nouveau Réalisme by Gérald Gassiot-Talabot
- Livrobjets by Jean-Jacques Lévêque
- Un peinture de contestation est-elle possible by Michel Troche
- Back Cover is an advertisment for “Ready-Mades et Editions de et sur Marcel Duchamp”held at the Galerie Claude Givaudan in Paris from June the 8th to September the 30th 1967.
- Opus Actualités
Roman Cieslewicz is never neutral. His images, his typography, his layouts never convey indifference. They look out at the world, characterize the age, bear witness, speak of disquiet and shame and sometimes of horror. They carry extreme critical exaltation into the realms of terror itself. They cut the easy conscience to the heart.
Roman Cieslewicz is considered one of the twentieth century's most influential poster artists. In his interview with Margo Rouard-Snowman, he lamented that "Posters need powerful occasions and significant subjects, which they don't find at the moment. As a means of communication they belong to another age and have very little future."
In 1955 Roman Cieslewicz graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was predominantly a (politically conscious) poster designer. He and his colleagues Julian Palka, Waldemar Swierzy, Jan Lenica, Henryk Tomaszewski and others made more than 200 Polish film posters a year. He migrated to France in 1963 and was naturalized in 1971. As well as posters he designed books, magazines and displays. He was art director of Elle and Vogue and of the advertising agency Maffia. By using photography, collage, screen-printing, typography and other media, he created a new vocabulary of graphic expression.
He designed for the magazines Opus International (1967–69) and Kitsch (1970–71). The Musée des Art Décoratifs, Galeries Lafayette, Hachette, the Centre Pompidou, and the Musée Picasso were among his clients. His exhibitions were held in major cities all over the world. Throughout his career, Cieslewicz received many medals and honours. [via AGI by Ben and Elly Bos]