Vintage Polish Posters | Weekends | Roman Cieslewicz

This 1963 film by director Jan Rutkiewicz is an intimate psychological drama whose characters represent the attitudes of young people that are rarely expressed. The Polish graphic artist and photographer Roman Cieslewicz (1930-1996) attended the School of Artistic Industry in Lvov and from 1947 to 1949 attended the Krakow’s Fine Arts Lycee. He studied at Kraków Academy of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1955. He was an artistic editor of “Ty i Ja” monthly in Warsaw between 1959–1962. In 1963, he moved to France and was naturalized a French citizen in 1971. He worked as art director of Vogue, Elle (1965–1969) and Mafia advertising agency (1969–1972). He also was artistic creator of Opus International (1967–1969). Kitsch (1970–1971) and Cnac-archives (1971–1974). Cieslewicz taught at the Ecole Superieure d’Arts Graphiques (ESAG) in Paris. In 1976 he produced his “reviev of panic information” – “Kamikaze”/No. 1/ published by Christian Bourgois. In 1991 he produced “Kamikaze 2” with Agnes B. He took part in numerous group exhibitions of graphic, poster and photographic art and was a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).