2013 Original Festival Poster, Arles Swan- Michel Bouvet

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Date: 2013
Size: 16 x 24 inches
Artist: Bouvet, Michel


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This is a poster that was created … Read more Date: 2013
Size: 16 x 24 inches
Artist: Bouvet, Michel


About The Poster:

This is a poster that was created for the Rencontres Arles Photography festival in 2013. Michel Bouvet has been behind the design project of this festival for several years and has developed the visual style and elements found in this poster. Every year a different animal, fruit or vegetable is featured. This is the swan from the 2013 edition of the festival.

Michel Bouvet was born in 1955 in Tunis (Tunisia) and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He lives and works in Paris. His studio works are mainly for public institutions: theatres, operas, museums, festivals, dance companies, orchestras, and for publishers in France and abroad. He has participated as a poster artist in international biennales in Warsaw, Toyama, Lahti, Helsinki, Brno, Fort-Collins, Mexico, Chaumont, Rzeszow, Sofia, Ogaki, Zagreb, Moscow, Hangzhou, Taipei, Chicago and the Art Directors Club, New York.

Significant awards include The Grand Prize for a Cultural Poster, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. First Prize International Poster Biennale, Fort-Collins, Colorado, USA. First Prize International Biennale of Theatre Posters, Rzeszow, Poland. Silver Medal International Poster Triennial in Toyama, Japan. The Jan Lenica Prize, International Poster Biennale, Warsaw, Poland. The Alphonse Mucha Prize and Bronze Medal at Brno Biennale. Honorable Mentions in Warsaw, Lahti, Fort-Collins, Moscow, and Zagreb.

Bouvet is a Professor at the ESAG/Penninghen , École Supérieure des Arts Graphiques, Paris, and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 1997. See less