UNTIL SUNDAY 30/1
MuVIM. Quevedo, 10
Xavier Monsalvatje has won the II Makma International Poster Award with "Kaos", a figurative poster with comical aesthetics where three hunched-over men who think they are controllers are being controlled, directed and blinded. Full of symbolic elements, this poster wants to reflect this contradictory world of subjects who try to dominate society while being the object of control by the very technology put at their service. Ninety are the finalist posters exhibited in this exhibition that revolves around the starting idea proposed by the magazine Makham promoter of the award: Order/disorder. The tension that emanates from these two opposing words has been transferred to the graphic medium by artists in very different ways, on a map of rectilinear streets that make up an irregular urban plot, with a "wild" flame that takes inside a uniform and constant crystal bulb, or with free strokes that end up drawing a perfectly idyllic landscape, in a proposal signed by Escif. At the printing house, a watch, the cells of a beehive, staves, metres, ants, puzzles, matches and chopsticks are some of the elements that artists have used to reflect disorder within order (a man carrying a tankard with a large hole in the middle) and order within disorder (a wave breaking the sea forming a scalene triangle). The poster with an artistic function closes the year at the MuVIM. S.M.
