Post-Posters in the city of Strasbourg, France From March through May 2019
“Actions Speak Louder Than Ass Ads,” says
a new stencil-style printed poster by New York’s epic, if sometimes cryptic, street
commentator of four decades, John Fekner. Anyway, who
will argue with that?
“Post-posters is a cooperative proposition about
public billposting,” says French conceptual street anarchist
Matthew Tremblin about his new project with hit-and-run situationist street
posterer Antonio Gallego. Together they reclaim space
with individually produced posters and they invite artists from around the
world to do the same.
Over a two month period the creative placemakers are facilitating an international crew of artists to post posters on the occasion of the double exhibition by Banlieue-Banlieue group* (°1982, Poissy) taking place in Strasbourg, at both AEDAEN and the Syndicat Potentiel.
The simple plotter printing and limited color palette give the collection of sentiments and sneaky statements a pre-Internet flavor, now delivered in the streets with post-Internet zeal. As advertisers begin to take more public space and mind space with screens of all sorts on the streets, these simple posters actually can appear to be more powerful.
Or it may simply seem like a lot of curious posters.
Post-posters features worldwide
artists including: Céline Ahond & Valérie Tortolero, Émilie Akli, Liliana
Amundaraín, Groupe Banlieue-Banlieue (Alain Campos, Antonio Gallego, José Maria
Gonzalez), La galerie des locataires présente André Cadere, Mathieu Boisadan,
Lénie Blue, Hervé Bréhier & Laura Morsch-Kihn,
Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Raphaël Charpentié, Vincent Chevillon, Emma
Cozzani, Minerva Cuevas, Alain Declercq, Michel Dector, Justin Delareux,
Caroline Delieutraz, Carole Douillard, Michel Dupuy, Souad El Maysour,
Encastrable, Escif, John Fekner, Sebastian Freytag, Antonio Gallego, Jakob
Gautel, Roland Görgen, Anahita Hekmat, David Horvitz, Icy & Sot, Rafael
Gray, Ann Guillaume & Tom Bücher, Antoine Hoffmann, Rodolphe Huguet, Jason
Karaïndros, Jiem L’Hostis & Mary Limonade, Laurent Lacotte, Thomas
Lasbouygues, Lise Lerichomme, Richard Louvet, Jean-Claude Luttmann, Gabrielle
Manglou, Laurent Marissal, Roberto Martinez, Cynthia Montier & Myriam
Suchet, Tania Mouraud, Aurélie Noury, Myriam Omar Awadi, Leila Payet, Patrick
Pinon, Igor Ponosov, Arthur Poutignat, Arzhel Prioul alias Mardinoir, Jacques
Sy, Mathieu Tremblin, Marianne Villière, Addie Wagenknecht, Éric Watier.
CREDITS: Production by Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg (FR). Installations by Antonio Gallego, Laurent Lacotte, Mathieu Tremblin. Fly posting and documentation in Strasbourg by Liliana Amundaraín, Antonio Gallego, Laurent Lacotte, Thomas Lasbouygues, Antoine Lejolivet, Arthur Poutignat, Mathieu Tremblin. Printing by Orgacompte (Nîmes). Thanks to Laurent Bourderon (Immédiats, Arles).
For more information about Syndicat Potentiel, Post Posters Project AND to download or buy a poster click HERE
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