Ladies and Gentlemen:
A great Polish romantic poet once said that beauty has the power to change people into angels. Maybe it was only a dream, but in this very difficult time when the force of evil threatens our world, we believe strongly that the beauty around us has the power to awaken the goodness in us and that this goodness can save the world.
The 10th Polish Film Festival in Seattle is an excellent opportunity to admire the beauty of Polish movie posters. Despite belonging to a discipline subordinate to movie art and to the viewer, movie posters are so interesting! It is with great pleasure that we would like to share with you a glimpse of that magnificent world.
Polish poster art is an artistic phenomenon of a universal scale, though virtually unknown to the
American public. Yet a good movie poster is a very precious thing, for it constitutes an extension
of the magic of cinema – the magic that we succumb to regardless of our age, position and occupation.
At the exhibition, we present 40 posters from 1970 to 2001. We hope that even this small number of posters will appeal to you and remind you about movies long gone but still alive within us!
We would like to thank the Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association for this opportunity to share
our poster collection with you. Special thanks go to our friends who graciously lent the treasures
of their collections: Aleksandra Zietak, Ewa & Krzysztof Poraj-Kuczewski and Michal Friedrich.
Also we would like to express our gratitude to the volunteers who helped with the staging of the
exhibition: Aleksandra Zietak, Marcin Kott, Krzysztof Poraj-Kuczewski, Daniel Olewski and
Bohdan Raciborski. Special thanks go to Krzysztof Dydo for his advice on this project; his gallery
in Krakow supplied most of the posters shown in in Seattle.
We hope you will find this exhibition as interesting as we do!
Maria &
Ryszard Kott
List of Artists Poster Gallery Exhibition Panels Photos of the Gallery Background Information