The KZNSA Gallery in partnership with Design Indaba is to present The Tolerance Traveling Poster Show.
The Tolerance
Traveling Poster Show was started by graphic designer Mirko Ilić. The
Bosnian-born, New York-based artist has experience that ranges from comics,
illustrations, art-directed posters, books, and record covers.
When he arrived in America he became the art director of Time Magazine
International Edition, he later went on to become the art director of the Op-Ed
pages of the New York Times.
With The Tolerance Travelling
Poster Show, Ilić wanted to find a way to get artists involved in helping
to promote tolerance across the world. He invited graphic designers from all
over the world to each contribute a poster that is an interpretation of the
word tolerance in their language.
The exhibition now includes the work of some of the world’s most noted
graphic designers including those from the African continent like Brandt Botha,
Garth Walker, Saki Mafundikwa and Chaz Maviyane-Davies.
Today, the exhibition has grown into a worldwide event that has been
held in places like the US, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, Spain,
Holland, Turkey, Ukraine and the Dominican Republic.
For Ilić, what is important about the nomadic poster show is that it
also moves art from being something that can only be accessed through art
galleries and museum spaces. He believes art should be more accessible to the
public by also showing it in public areas from parks, to shopping malls and
other such areas where possible.
The Tolerance
Travelling Poster Show made its African debut at the Design Indaba
Conference 2018, where attendees got to engage with the posters as part of an
outside pop-up gallery.
South African graphic designer and illustrator, Brandt Botes, was the
artist whose poster was added and shown at Design Indaba for the first time.
Botes created a yellow poster that features the term "verdraag
saamheid" which means tolerance in Afrikaans.
In each new exhibition, new posters are added to the collection, and now
the exhibition is travelling to Durban, home of contributor Garth Walker.
The Tolerance
Traveling Poster Show runs from May 3 to 20, 2018, in the KZNSA’s Main
Gallery. The KZNSA is situated at 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood, in Durban. More
information on 031 277 1705, fax 031 201 8051 or cell 082 220 0368 or visit
www.kznsa.co.za
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