Fons Hickmann at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus: Poster Art as a Visual Think-Image
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Fons Hickmann: Poster Art as a Visual Think-Image
The Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition Fons Hickmann. Posters from Today and Before at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus. The exhibition looks at three decades of independent communication design and makes graphic design experienceable as a cultural practice, visual research, and societal reflection.
Three Decades of Graphic Experimentation
Fons Hickmann, born in 1966 in Hamm, is one of the defining German communication designers of the present. With his design studio founded in 2001 in Berlin, he developed an internationally awarded body of work spanning posters, typography, book design, visual identity, and exhibition graphics. His approach to understand every project as an experiment shapes the exhibition as much as the consistent connection of idea, form, and content.
The Poster Between Image, Text, and Society
The posters on display were often created in series and for longstanding clients from the cultural sector. Typographic precision meets unusual image solutions, serial variation, and a pronounced sensitivity to material and space. The commissioned works are complemented by self-referential and media-reflective designs, as well as posters commissioned independently, which address socio-political topics as paper interventions.
Aesthetic Experience at the Diesel Power Plant
In the exhibition atmosphere of the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus, poster art unfolds as an immediate viewing experience. Colors, shapes, contrasts, and typographic rhythms guide the gaze, while the serial hanging makes developmental lines and recurring motifs visible. The exhibition thus opens up an aesthetic experience in which communication design, art history, and cultural education are closely intertwined.
An Internationally Awarded Body of Work
Hickmann’s works have been represented at international design biennales and have received numerous awards including the Golden Bee Award, iF Award in Gold, ADC Awards, LeadAwards, and the Joseph Binder Award. In 2012, the Triennale Trnava honored his entire oeuvre with the Master’s Eye Award. The Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art has been collecting Hickmann’s works for some time; a substantial donation has expanded the collection into a significant corpus.
Conclusion: Experience Poster Art Live
Visitors can expect a concentrated art experience exploring the thoughts and playful spaces of contemporary design. Fons Hickmann. Posters from Today and Before shows how paper, text, color, and image create a precise societal language. Anyone wishing to not only view communication design but understand it as visual culture should definitely experience this exhibition live at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus.
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