Rare ROBERTO MATTA Silkscreen Poster for HAVANA CUBA Latin America Film Festival

In addition to this rare Cuban film festival poster, the Cuban Poster Gallery. 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! Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. 13th Festival of New Latin America Cinema. , a rarely seen original, limited edition silk-screened poster designed by famed Chilean artist ROBERTO MATTA for this prestigious film festival, held in Havana, Cuba from December 3-14, 1991.

The annual festival, which celebrated its 41th anniversary in 2019, exists to. Promote films whose significance and artistic values contribute to enrich and reaffirm the Latin American and Caribbean cultural identity. The festival has attracted some of the world's most prominent actors and film directors, including Steven Spielberg, Francois Ford Coppola, Robert Redford, Robert De Niro, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodovar, Gregory Peck and Oliver Stone. In addition to his paintings, Matta was known for his graphic art and sculpures.

His work can be found in the permanent collections of the world's leading museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the V&A (Victoria and Albert) in London.

Only 250 copies of this poster were screen-printed for the 1991 film festival in Havana. The poster is numbered 82/250. This hard-to-find screen-print was acquired from a prominent, long-time collector of Cuban poster art in Switzerland. See the photo we have posted. Overall condition of this 20 by 28 inch poster (71 by 51 cm) is good with minor imperfections, including some wrinkles on the borders, minor foxing and small pieces missing from the bottom border.

Please see all of the photos we have posted with this listing. TITLE: 13 th Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. Approximately 20 x 28 inches. 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.

Type: Poster
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Artist: ROBERTO MATTA (1911-2002)
Production Technique: Serigraph & Silkscreen
Material: Silk-screen on paper
Theme: Film festival
Time Period Produced: 1990-1999
Features: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
Subject: Film Festival
Year of Production: 1991
Width (Inches): approximately 20 inches; ( 51 cm)
Limited Edition: 250 copies were screen-printed
Height (Inches): approximately 28 inches (71 cm)
Date of Creation: 1990-1999
ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba: EDITION: 1st (this is an original poster)
Original/Reproduction: Original
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