In censored Poland of its youth and during its many voyages, Michal Batory tastes with the diversity of the styles - surrealist or expressionists - digests the codes and develops a glance. Confronted with the lithographs on the walls of the cities: the idea supports the image and play of the metaphor. Joining, diversion of the natural matter, one finds these influences in the posters which it carries out for the Palate of Chaillot in Paris or the Arsenal of Metz which entrusted their visual communications to him. The passers by do not escape from its images from an extraordinary visual force. They are intended to the passengers of the subway, playing their part of "calling cards", inviting at one time of calms during which the passer by can reflect. Michal Batory knew, with the passing of years and commands to find its language, its visual grammar, its writing. An approach, rather than a style, even if its images are recognizable between all. They are imprinted on the retina and in the memory of those which cross them once and decide to look them by taking time. When it is the case, a single relation is established between the poster artist and the passer by, because the step sincere and is always impressed emotion. This monograph accompanies the first individual exposure by Michal Batory, which has been just rewarded by the International Festival from the Poster and the Graphic arts for Chaumont which allotted first place to him to the international contest for the poster "PowerBook" of the national Theatre of Chaillot. The work, conceived and put on pages for a random reading, without beginning nor end, presents the work of the artist during these ten last years, but also of refused creations, the sketches and the extracts of its book of search and many images around its daily universe.
Dimensions: 9?x11? (inches) Pages: 140 Edition: Softcover Languages: English, Japanese
