by Lorena Cellini
From Mao Tse-tung’s China to Cuban cinema, from the student movements of ’68 to the Polish circus via newspaper posters. There is all this in the graphic work which, from today, will be on display at the poster museum, the Magma of Civitanova Alta, the result of the collaboration with the Isia of Urbino, the Higher Institute for artistic industries, one of the excellences in matter in Italy. The students of the two-year specialist course in ‘Communication and design for publishing’ and of the ‘Graphic image design’ course held by Professor Mauro Bubbico will be the protagonists. The Isia of Urbino is considered the most important institute of higher education in Italy for graphic and editorial design. His students have made base camp at Magma to tell and enhance various collections of the museum which includes a heritage of 30,000 posters. The exhibition, which will be inaugurated today at 5 pm and will remain open until May 14, is the result of the work, which lasted several months, of twenty-five students divided into five groups, who signed as many projects: A Taste of CubaManifestos of Cuban cinema , CyrkIl Circo Polacco, Oriente RossoPropaganda and censorship in Mao’s China, Like JamLa graphics of urgency in the student and worker movements since ’68, ABC 18688 and other Owls and combinatorial literature in the screams of the local newspapers.
“It is established that Magma is a natural bank for students. We are their point of reference”, underlines Enrico Lattanzi, director of Magma, proud of having inaugurated this relationship between school and museum, which he speaks of as “a incredible experience that also opened us up to a journey with the University of San Marino”.
The projects that open the exhibition will be ‘A taste of Cuba’ and ‘Cyrk’: the first focused on the Castro revolution seen through Cuban cinema posters, the second a look at circus art in post-war Poland, with images of artists, animals and a world of lights and fantasy.
From 29 April the exhibition on ‘Red Orient’ will be launched, which analyzes the effects and consequences of propaganda and censorship during Mao’s regime in China.
From May 6, space for ‘Come jam’, posters, slogans, photographs and graphics resulting from the protests and feelings of student and worker uprisings in Paris, Civitanova and Urbino.
Finally, ‘Abc 18688 and others’ from May 13, with owls and combinatorial literature on the language used in the shouts of local newspapers.
The students involved in the work and authors of the projects are Melina Aspridis, Claudia Auricchio, Dario D’Alessio, Dario Danielli, Matteo Mariangioli, Martina Negroni, Aurora Pelaggi, Sara Rombaldoni, Roberto Schneeberger, Gabriele Serrau, Francesca Somaini, Monica Vecchiato, Emma Watson -Sunday.