HEAVEN & EARTH Cuba Silk-screen Poster for Movie About Voodoo + Cuban Revolution

Is offering a huge selection of handmade Cuban silk-screen movie posters, many of which work beautifully well together. To view all of the posters, please visit our. The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! Here we are offering LA TIERRA Y EL CIELO (HEAVEN AND EARTH), a rarely seen Cuban silk-screen poster that was designed for a 1978 Cuban movie. The film centers around two young Cuban sugar cane cutters and voodoo practitioners of Haitian origin who in the 1950s join Fidel Castro's rebel army in the mountains of eastern Cuba and find themselves caught between two worlds -- the real and the magical.

This poster was designed by one of Cuba's graphic art masters, A. Ntonio Pérez, who is known as Ñiko. This 20 by 30 inch poster (a standard size, so easy and inexpensive to frame) was silk-screened in the Cuban Film Institute's workshop in Havana in the past decade, some years after the poster was first released.

A word about Cuban silk-screens: Once the. Beware of cheap, photocopied, mass-produced reproduction "Cuban posters" made in the U. That lack the authenticity of the true Cuban silkscreens.

Overall condition of this poster is good. As with most Cuban silk-screens, you may find small imperfections, including wrinkles on the border. TITLE: LA TIERRA Y EL CIELO (HEAVEN AND EARTH), designed for a 1978 Cuban movie. ORIGIN: the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silkscreen workshop in Havana, Cuba.

A few words about collecting Cuba's silk-screen movie posters. For more than 60 years, the. Cuban Film Institute has been designing silk-screened posters for most every movie shown on the island, whether the films originated in Cuba, the United States, Brazil, Japan or Italy.

In the midst of the Cold War 1960s and 1970s, many of the subtitled foreign films shown in Cuba came from the island nation's communist allies in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Vietnam and even North Korea. Unlike in the United States, where movie posters are often dominated by images of Hollywood stars, the Cubans assign a graphic artist to design an original piece of artwork for each film. These posters are widely recognized in graphic design circles. As stylish works of art, handmade one color at a time and often under difficult circumstances at various times, paint and even paper have been in short supply on the island.

Cuba's silk-screen movie posters are nothing less than museum pieces. Examples of Cuban poster art can be found in the permanent collections of museums across the globe from the Victoria & Albert in London to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in prestigious institutions such as the Library of Congress in Washington D.

And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. Adding to their collectability, Cuba's movie posters are produced in relatively small numbers. Typically, a few hundred copies are made for each film, although the runs have been as low as 50. Responding to demand from collectors, the Cuban Film Institute has re-screened some of its more popular posters. That's why some posters created in the 1960s and 1970s began reappearing on the Caribbean island in the 1990s and 2000s.

Further adding to their collectability, many of Cuba's vintage posters are imperiled. To us, these survivors are rare beauties, even those with obvious flaws. We are proud to have rescued hundreds of posters from almost certain extinction by storing them in an air conditioned, acid-free environment. We consider both to be collectible, and (in response to a question we often get) all of these posters were legally imported because the U. Government exempts artwork from its economic embargo against Cuba. While the pricier originals are favored by some collectors, the re-screens are also collectible because they were made in the same Havana workshop as the originals. Note that we never sell unauthorized reproductions that have been cranked out in print shops in the U.

This item is in the category "Art\Art Prints". The seller is "cubanpostergallery" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

Width (Inches): 20
Internal locator #: ck gallery
Production Technique: Serigraph & Silkscreen
Subject: Figures & Portraits
Size: 20 x 30 inches; 51 x 76 cm
Material: Silk-screen on Paper
Height (Inches): 30
Artist: Antonio (Ñiko) Pérez (b. 1941)
Style: Figurative
ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba: EDITION: 2nd (see below for more details)
Type: Poster