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"Anthony und Cleopatra"
1996 silkscreen 100cm x 70cm |
| Lex Drewinski was born on 11 September 1951
in Szczecin (Poland). In 1976-1981 he was a student at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, the Faculty of Painting, Graphic Art and SculptureIn 1981 Drewinski graduated with honors from Professor Waldemar Swierzy's Class of Poster Art. He started working as a freelance graphic designer-designing posters e.g. for the Warsaw-based Pol-Film. In 1983-85 he worked as a director and scriptwriter at the Animated Film Studio in Poznan. In 1985 Drewinski left Poland with his family for West Berlin. There he continued working as a freelance designer, at the same time studying computer design at the CIMDATA GmbH in Berlin. Since 1992 professor of the Faculty of Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. Three years later, in 1995, together with his students, realized his international project entitled Tolerance/Intolerance at such academic institutions as Universidad Complutense, la Facultad de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Escola de Disseny y Art in Barcelona, Fachhochschule Potsdam in Potsdam. The project was continued, in 2000, at Facultad de Architectura y Dise’Po, Universidad Catolica in Quito (Ecuador). He organized an international fax-action entitled: Future Visions for Design during the International Design Conference at the Fachhochschule Potsdam in 1998. In 2000 his poster Lexicon A -Z was chosen to be exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, as a sample object of the 21st century. "To take something away from a poster means to add something to it." (Lex Drewinski) |