Hans Hillmann, père de l’affiche moderne allemande

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A In-situ exhibition focusing on the work of poster designer and illustrator Hans Hillmann, who worked with some of the biggest names in cinema (‘between 1953 and 1974, some 130 cinema posters were produced for films by some of the greatest directors, including Godard, Carné, Bresson, Buñuel, Rossellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Huston, Hawks, Capra, Bergman, Rocha, Eisenstein and Kurosawa’, according to the Cinémathèque de Toulouse website). The exhibition presents a selection of posters, from among the hundred or so held by the Toulouse Cinémathèque, to retrace Hillmann's work and offer a glimpse of an original body of work that stands outside the standard of posters homogenised around the Western codes of West Germany. The exhibition bears witness to the iconoclastic nature of Hillmann's work, with its highly symbolic, pared-down style based on strong constraint and the hybridisation of techniques and figures.

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