London’s Royal College of Art… exhibiting the first major UK retrospective of designer,

Roman Cieślewicz

from Friday (16 July) until 17 August.

« …Cieślewicz was – alongside Fernando Arrabal and Alejandro Jodorowsky – a member of Panique, the ‘last’ group in France. At the same time he was a brilliant art director at Elle, and a contributor to Vogue. Remarkably prolific, he also worked closely with figures from the worlds of advertising and fashion including Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton.

Extraordinarily talented as an image-maker, Cieślewicz’s tools were not the pen or the brush but the scalpel and scissors. Working with collage, he produced compelling and original images by reworking familiar icons such Che Guevara or Mona Lisa. “I always go for the maximum picture and the maximum information. You need to stimulate imagination to the maximum” – he once said in an interview. »

The exhibition will include 150 pieces of Cieślewicz’s diverse work including the iconic magazine covers created for Opus (above top & middle) and the poster he designed for Hitchcock’s Vertigo (above bottom). The collections on display are from the National Museum in Poznan, the Museum Art in Łódź and the private collection of Cezary Pieczyński… »

Delicious industries – Roman Cieslewicz