Eduardo Barrera Arambarri: Posters and other perilous paper fetishes

An opening of the exhibition on June 23, 2016, from 6 p. m. The exhibition until July 6, 2016

Curator of Gallery: Lenka Sýkorová
Curator of Exhibition: Karel Míšek

Eduardo Barrera ranks in Mexico among young graphic designers who specialise in the production of posters. His output is emotional and charged with the artist’s distinctive personality traits.

One of the foundations of the creative process is to deliver a message using tools of communication. Based on the needs of an individual or group, the message differs but the form and quality of expression are diverse. Since the moment when new multimedia forms of expression came onto the market, including the interactive process, it has been downright impossible to grasp all the aspects of this process. Not only today but also in history the process of communication and information had and has several strata. In this process people, their groups and individual communities can perceive the visual and communication elements including texts. This expression gamut is very diverse and its effect on the spectators is as heterogeneous. Therefore, the view of the artist’s output is more valuable.

Barrera’s posters are freed from certain cultivation proper to the Central European art scene.
They are not subject to fashion trends which are often characteristic of and proper to some graphic designers.

The spectrum of subjects used by the artist ranges from social to personal statements on burning issues. Despite the distance between the continents the problems of immediate interest have much to say, through the artist’s communication, to us, Central Europeans students and viewers.

Karel Míšek