BLINK Poster Show
A glimpse into Havana’s cultural scene through the art of poster design
An art exhibit celebrating sister cities, Havana and Saint Louis during the Saint Louis Design Week.
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Cuban Poster Design Exhibit showcasing a special glimpse into Havana’s cultural scene, brought to Saint Louis's Design Week by Carlos Zamora and AIGA. The exhibit, entitled CUBACARTEL: The Bridge Generation, featured 50 posters from Carlos Zamora’s private collection, along with the debut of Miami artist Eduardo Sarmiento‘s latest poster, printed in St. Louis by All Along Press.
CUBACARTEL, is a bilingual network of Cuban poster designers. It is a source of inspiration for designers living in Havana; a way to showcase their work in a bilingual platform; and a bridge between Cuban designers and American design circuits. Posters featured at Cubacartel’s Facebook page have been finalists in the 2nd Chicago International Poster Biennial, 2011 Lima’s International Poster Design Exhibit in Peru, 2010 Havana’s Biennial, and also presented in galleries in Havana, Seattle, Miami, Quito, Teheran, Ogasaki, Madrid and Frankfurt.
Once known as The Art of the Revolution, poster design in Cuba was considered the perfect media to inform, engage, and promote the social programs of the socio-political processes that took place on the Island after 1959. It was also an opportunity for poster artists to articulate a voice within the aesthetics of the new social contract. Younger generations of Cuban designers inherited a profound respect for the masters of the 60s, and a fondness for poster making. Their posters have become a graphic testimonial of contemporary Cuban life styles: an eclectic mix of survival attitude, art and propaganda, bilingual diasporas, exiles, isolation, and enticing boldness around Havana’s cultural vortex.
