The Film Academy expands the exhibition "Spaces of Freedom: Czech Movie Posters Under the Iron Curtain" until March 27, in order to enjoy one more week of a phenomenon unique in the world and one of the most important in the modern history of the plastic arts in Europe: the Czech cinema poster.
Looking ahead to the month of April, after Easter, there will be new screenings:
NEW CYCLE: «The Cinema and its Trades, Directors of Photography» - from April 14 to 16. Colloquium on Thursday 16 with the directors of photography José Luis Alcaine, Juan Mariné and Ángel Iguácel.
IN THE WEEK OF LETTERS: «Special film series of literary adaptations» - from April 21 to 24. Colloquium on Thursday 23 with Enrique Urbizu, Félix Viscarret, Salvador Gª Ruiz and Azucena Rodríguez.
FIRST SPANISH ACTRESS TO RECEIVE AN OSCAR: Penélope Cruz in the cycle «Joyas de Cine Español» - from April 27 to 30.
In addition, Thursday, April 2, the cycle «Other borders, another cinema» returns, with the projection of the Argentine film Cordero de Dios by Lucía Cedrón.
With the collaboration of the Czech Center in Madrid, "Spaces of freedom: Czech movie posters under the Iron Curtain" shows us some of the posters that the artists of the communist period created for important Spanish films of the time such as "Cría Cuervos" , "Tristana" or "The executioner".
Over thirty years, between 1959 and 1989, prominent graphic artists applied the most modern expression tools (collages, photomontages, extractions, assemblages) to film posters, drawing inspiration from pop art and modern photography.
They used avant-garde expressive language and a certain picaresque to circumvent the censorship that prevented them, among other things, from using capitalist symbols.
Faced with the non-existent art market and the difficulties in exhibiting, movie posters became the only possibility to present one's own works to the public. They are small works of art that enjoyed their own and fixed space at a time when there were no art galleries in Czechoslovakia.
The exhibition will be open to the public, free of charge, from Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 13 p.m. and from 17 p.m. to 20 p.m. (closed on holidays).