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Exhibition of Belarusian Poster Opens in Trieste. Office for a Democratic Belarus and the United World College of the Adriatic (Trieste, Italy) have the pleasure to represent the exhibition Visual code of the time: post-Soviet poster art in Belarus. The exhibition represents the works of 19 designers and demonstrates the impact that important socio-political transformation taking place in Belarus in the mid 1980s-1990s had on the country’s poster art. For many years posters served to embed certain slogans and graphic symbols of the Soviet regime and communist ideology in people’s minds. They acquired an almost iconographic meaning. However, the situation has changed in the mid 1980-s. At that time Belarus was still one of the Soviet Republics, but the era when the role of an artist was reduced to that of a functionary meekly carrying out political orders was becoming a thing of the past…

• Месца выхаду: Brussels
• Дата выхаду: 2009-02-03
• Copyright: © 2009 by Belarus Headlines
• Кнігазбор: Kamunikat.org