About the artist:

Roman Cieslewicz was born in Lvov, Poland /now Ukraine/ in 1930, died of a heart attack in Paris on January 21, 1996. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1955. Having arrived in France in 1963, he became a naturalized French citizen in 1971. Since then he has worked for many publishers of books and periodicals either as graphic artist or as art director, including: Ty i JA /1959-1963/, Elle /1965-69/ and the advertising agency MAFIA /1969-1972/. He also created the graphic design for the magazines Opus International/1967-1969/, Kitsch/1970-71/ and Cnac-archives/1971-74/. Since 1963 he was worked with Julliard, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Claude Tchou/1964/, Christian Bourgois/1968-76/, Musee des Arts Decoratifs/1972,1980/, Hachette/1973/, Centre Georges Pompidou/1975-83/, Festival d'Automne/1976-77/, La Revue du XXe Siecle/1976-77/, Ketschum/1982/, Hazan/1983/, Denoel/1983/, Galeries Lafayette/1984/, Musee Picasso/1985/. In 1976 he produced his "reviev of panic information" - "Kamikaze"/No. 1/, published by Christian Bourgois, followed in 1991 "Kamikaze 2" with Agnes B. Since 1956, Cieslewicz has taken part in numerous group exhibitions of graphic, poster and photographic art. Since 1975 he has taught at the Ecole Superieure d'Arts Graphiques /ESAG/ in Paris. He was a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Among his 100 one-man exhibitions, some of the most inportant have been: 1972 Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris France 1973 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Holland 1974 Muzeum Plakatu, Warsaw Poland 1978 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Holland 1981 Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan Poland 1984 Kunsthalle, Darmstadt Germany 1986 Galeria BWA, Lodz Poland 1987 Galerie de Pret, Angres France 1993 The Polish Museum of America, Chicago USA 1993 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France 1994 Narodowa Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zacheta, Warsaw Poland 1998 Muzeum Plakatu, Warsaw Poland Major awards: 1955 WAG Trepkowski Prize - Poland 1956 Central Film Office Prize - Poland 1964 International Film Poster Exhibition Karlove Vary - Czech first prize 1965 National Poster Biennale Katowice - Poland Silver Medal 1967 National Poster Biennale Katowice - Poland Gold Medal v 1971 National Poster Biennale Katowice - Poland Gold Medal 1972 International Poster Biennale Warsaw - Poland Gold Medal 1973 National Poster Biennale Katowice - Poland Gold Medal v 1973 Special Film Poster Prize Cannes France v 1979 Grand Prix de l'Affiche d'Art Paris France 1980 Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Paris France 1984 International Poster Biennale Warsaw - Poland Bronze Medal 1985 International Poster Biennale Colorado Denver USA Award Winner 1990 Grand Prix National d'Art Graphiques France 1992 President's Prize at the Graphic Arts Biennale, Brno, Czechoslovakia 1993 Poster Biennale Lahti Finlad second prize