I am pleased to let you know that on Friday, October 24th at 7 pm, the HDD Gallery will open the exhibition DESIGN FOR THE &TD THEATRE 1964 – 1983: MIHAJLO ARSOVSKI, BORIS BUĆAN, ŽELJKO BORČIĆ & MIRKO ILIĆ, which provides an overview of one of the most exciting creative series in the history of Croatian graphic design, the dynamic continuity of graphic design for the Chamber Stage and the &TD Theatre, which were created, one after the other, by Mihajlo Arsovski, Boris Bućan, Željko Borčić and I from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s.
The curators of the exhibition, based on private collections and the collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, are Marko Golub and Dejan Kršić.
&TD Theatre is a theatre in Zagreb, Croatia. It is regarded as one of the most important experimental Croatian theatres of the 20th century.
'The exhibition focuses on four authors who, one after the other, shaped the visual communication of the theatre within the Student Center within a little less than 20 years, constantly redefining what it means to make theatre posters, and along the way created some of the most important works in their careers. More than half of that period belongs, of course, to Mihajlo Arsovski, who not only shaped the most recognizable aspects of the identity of the &TD Theatre that will continue to resonate literally to this day, but in this engagement, he gradually defined his own authorial language in the sharpest terms, mostly in relation to the use of typography. His immediate successor, Boris Bućan, would find himself on the same task for an extremely short time, only about five months, but nothing he would do there was like anything else, and he would design some of his most radical posters there. And because of this radical approach, he would leave. The vacant position was then filled for two years by Željko Borčić, whose engagement at the &TD Theatre was roughly midway between his earlier conceptualist aspirations and his later institutionalization and transformation into one of the most successful designers for large companies. Directly after Borčić, the design of the same theatre was taken over by the then 22-year-old Mirko Ilić, for whom &TD was his first serious, continuous design engagement, a training ground for everything that can and should be done in a poster, and a prelude to a great international career.’ – Marko Golub and Dejan Kršić
I am pleased that at this exhibition I will be “rubbing shoulders” with my idols Mihajlo Arsovski and Boris Bućan
Below you can see some of my &TD Theatre posters from the exhibition.
