The Poster - Public and Private Sites

This paper was originally presented at 'The poster - a medium between art and commerce' symposium, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, on 24th May 2013.

Abstract:
This paper will consider the idea of the poster as that category of artworks that operates between public and private spaces. A number of artists are selected and discussed focusing on key works which demonstrate an engagement with either the use of the poster as a site or space or used the form itself in a more conceptual way to make us reconsider the poster’s potential. The paper begins with Warhol’s 'Thirteen Most Wanted Men' and then leads into consideration of Felix Gonzalez Torres, both his 'Billboard' project and 'Stacks'. Further strategies in relationship to the poster are discussed including Thomas Kilpper, Joseph Beuys, Annette and Caroline Kierulf, and the commissions of Platform for Art. The paper concludes with the authors own recent prints made for an exhibition at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

The symposium 'The poster - a medium between art and commerce' was held at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna, to accompany the exhibition 'in.print.out' (Grafik in/auswendig), 19 April to 9 June 2013, in which Coldwell was also an exhibitor. These events were part of the programme of the Krakow International Print Triennial 2012.

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