Urban Nature

Michal Batory

From 11/10/2024 to 30/11/2024

For several years now, the celebrated graphic artist Michal Batory has been designing the Ars Musica poster. This October and November, his artistic universe will be on show at the gallery, accompanied by occasional improvised concerts.

Presentation of the event:

For several years now, the renowned graphic artist Michal Batory has been designing the Ars Musica poster. This October and November, his artistic universe will be on show at the gallery, accompanied from time to time by improvised concerts.

Born in Poland in 1959 and a former student of the Lodz Academy of Fine Arts, Michał Batory is part of the great tradition of avant-garde graphic design among Polish poster artists. After moving to Paris in the late 1980s, he went on to work for the Théâtre national de Chaillot, the Théâtre national de la Colline, IRCAM and Radio France’s ‘Signature’ collection.

For many years now, Ars Musica music lovers have been able to admire his very personal style, as he has signed the graphic design and poster for the festival. For Urban Nature, the Odradek Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Michał Batory’s work, focusing on the posters and album covers he has produced over the years. The graphic line of the visual communication he invented is revealed in all its coherence. Against a brilliant monochrome background, a body or object stands out, always poetic, somewhere between surrealism and abstraction, surprise and sometimes cruelty, offbeat and misappropriated. The exhibition will also be accompanied by three concerts.

Fabian Coomans on piano at the opening, Jean-Louis Marchand on clarinet on 22 November, and saxophonist Jan Rzewski will perform in succession in the Odradek gallery, amidst the works of Michał Batory… Like a revelation, definitive, of the innovative relationship between image and music.

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Commissariat :

Michal Batory

Dates de la tenue de l’événement :

10.10.24 – 30.11.24

Concerts :

Fabien Coomans le 10.10.24

Jean-Louis Marchand & Ruben Tenenbaum le 22.11.24

Jan Rzewski 30.11.24

Visuel :