OPUS INTERNATIONAL 6
Avril 1968.
Jean-Clarence Lambert [Editor], Roman Cieslewicz [Designer]
Jean-Clarence Lambert [Editor], Roman Cieslewicz [Designer]: OPUS INTERNATIONAL 6. Paris: Editions Georges Fall, Avril 1968. Text in French. Quarto. Perfect bound thick printed wrappers. 112 pp. Illustrated articles and advertisements. Period correct graphic design, typography and cover design by Roman Cieslewicz. Wrappers lightly shelfworn, but a very good or better copy.
7 x 10.5 softcover journal with 112 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.
- Spécial Pologne by Jean-Clarence Lambert
- Le Participe: une piece de Miron Bialoszewski
- Tadeusz Kantor: du theater de conspiration aux Emballages
- Cricot 2: une sphere de comportement artistique libre et gratuity | La lettre. Manifeste de l'Emballage by Tadeusz Kantor
- Zbigniew Makowski: un géométrie romantique by Jerzy Olkiewicz
- Alina Szapocznikow: pour une soustration de corps, une addition de bouches by Jean-Jacques Lévêque
- La galerie Foksal de Varsovie: une generation nouvelle by Hanna Ptaszkowska, Wieslaw Borowski, Mariusz Tchorek
- Lebenstein et l'ankylose by Gérald Gassiot-Talabot
- Poèmes by Tadeusz Rozewicz, Jerzy Harasymowicz
- Abakonowicz ou la tapisserie structural by Danuta Wroblewska
- Sadley: du tissage au spectacle des forms by Danuta Wroblewska
- Skolimowski: la Pologne après Ubu by Alain Jouffroy
- Cieslewicz: une affiche qui ne fait pas le trottoir by Raoul-Jean Moulin
- Krzysztof Penderecki: ma musique est figurative: dialogue avec Martine Cadieu
- L'ombre de ma folie by Joyce Mansour
- La bataille de Venise
- L'arbre à papillons by Alain Jouffroy
- Périlli: blazon de nose gestes et de nos songes by Raoul-Jean Moulin
- Bertini: reprendre au photographe ce qui appartient au peintre: un dialogue avec Gillo Dorflés
- Adami et la libido by Alain Jouffroy
- La tour cybernétique de la Défense by Nicolas Schöffer
- Dewasne, l'absolutiste by Gérald Gassiot-Talabot
- Tinguely by Philippe Comte
- King, la forme et la couleur by Anthony Fawcett
- Mac Garrell by Jean-Jacques Lévêque
- Takamatsu ou le dérèglement des sens by Jun Ebara
- La descente aux enfers de Jansen by Pierre Léonard
- 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]