This web exhibition accompanies the current exhibition PETER POCS POSTERMANIA at the Budapest Exhibition Hall, Szabad sajto ut.5, Budapest, Hungary, March 2 to April 2, 2006. The following text and the pictures were kindly provided by Peter Pocs.

Exhibition posters by Peter Pocs

At the exhibition of Peter Pocs "POSTERMANIA" we can see a summary of the graphic designer's activity of the last 25 years. The exhibition, which shows 120 cultural and political posters, is a document of the euphorical period of the Hungarian transition from the communist regime to democracy, is documentation for a rich theatre, cultural festival and fine arts life of Hungary. We can meditate on, in connection with the 50 years anniversary of the Hungarian revolution in 1956, its importance to our common history, and its relevance to todays political processes. There are a few commercial posters as well, which praise Tamas T. Nagy and Heine Sveistrup Jensen for their orderings.

1989, 301 The number refers to the unmarked plot in the cemetery where Imre Nagy, hero of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, was buried from 1958 to 1989. The blood stain has the shape of Hungary.

2006, 56.10.23 October 23, 1956 is the beginning of the Hungarian Uprising. The red star is the symbol of the soviet occupation.

2006, 56.10.23

2006, 56.10.23

2005, The 100th anniversary of the birth of Jozsef Attila, a hungarian poet.

1988, Erdely Erdely is the hungarian name for Transsylvania, a multicultural region in Romania with a sad and turbulent history, and a large hungarian minority. Blue, red and yellow was it's flag before 1918.

2000, United Colors of Hung(a)ry The millenium of the Kingdom of Hungary was celebrated in 2000, during which St. Stephens crown with the tilted cross received much bla bla.

2003, Tamas T. Nagy - Cheese Trade Company

2003, Peter Pocs exhibition in Pecs

2005, Ts(H)unami

Links
Invitation card
Peter Pocs at the Gallery Maysternia in Kyiv, Ukraine
Peter Pocs poster exhibition in Castelmoron d'Albret (FR)
Book review: Pocs - Posters 2003 - 1977