HIGH HEELS Cuban Screenprint Poster for Spanish PEDRO ALMODOVAR Movie / CUBA ART

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The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business! The Cuban Poster Gallery is thrilled to offer. HIGH HEELS (Spanish: Tacones lejanos), a gorgeous hand-signed. Limited edition Cuban screen-print poster saluting this. 1991 Spanish melodrama film written and directed by.

Please see below for a brief description of this film. This original movie tribute poster was designed in 2019 by award-winning Cuban artist. (who is known as MOLA) for a project at the prestigious. Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

In Havana that saluted the film director. In the the year of his 70th birthday. Project resulted in a wonderful series of screen-printed posters and a showing of. Films at the December 2019 Havana film festival, which attracted actors, directors and movie industry officials (as well as film fans) from around the world. Only 100 copies of this poster were screen-printed in Havana, ensuring this lovely graphic will always be rare. Many of the posters from the. Project were acquired by officials from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who attended (and participated in) the Havana film festival.

The HIGH HEELS poster was also selected for a major exhibition in 2020 at the prestigious F. The lush red and black. Poster measures approximately 27 by 19 inches (70 x 50 cm). The poster was hand-signed and numbered by the artist. Overall condition of this poster is good.

As with most handmade Cuban graphics, some small imperfections can be expected. But this poster is in great shape! The plot of HIGH HEELS follows the fractured relationship between a self-involved mother who is a famous torch song singer and the grown daughter she had abandoned as a child.

The daughter, who works as a television newscaster, has married her mother's ex-lover and befriended a female impersonator. A murder further complicates this web of relationships. , designed to salute a Spanish film.

DESIGNER: Edel Rodriguez (MOLA) b. Yes, only 100 copies were made.

SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand. Approximately 27 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. For more than 50 years, the. Cuban Film Institute has been designing silk-screened posters for most every movie shown on the island, whether the films originated in Cuba, the United States, Brazil, Japan or Italy. In the midst of the Cold War 1960s and 1970s, many of the subtitled foreign films shown in Cuba came from the island nation's communist allies in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Vietnam and even North Korea. Unlike in the United States, where movie posters are often dominated by images of Hollywood stars, the Cubans assign a graphic artist to design an original piece of artwork for each film. These posters are widely recognized in graphic design circles.

As stylish works of art, handmade one color at a time and often under difficult circumstances at various times, paint and even paper have been in short supply on the island. Cuba's silk-screen movie posters are nothing less than museum pieces. But don't take our word for it! Examples of Cuban poster art can be found in the permanent collections of museums across the globe from the Victoria & Albert in London to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in prestigious institutions such as the Library of Congress in Washington D. And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles.

Adding to their collectibility, Cuba's movie posters are produced in relatively small numbers. Typically, a few hundred copies are made for each film, although the runs have been as low as 50. Responding to demand from collectors, the Cuban Film Institute has re-screened some of its more popular posters.

That's why some posters created in the 1960s and 1970s began reappearing on the Caribbean island in the 1990s and 2000s. Further adding to their collectibility, many of Cuba's vintage posters are imperiled. To us, these survivors are rare beauties, even those with obvious flaws. We are proud to have rescued hundreds of posters from almost certain extinction by storing them in an air conditioned, acid-free environment. We consider both to be collectible, and (in response to a question we often get) all of these posters were legally imported because the U.

Government exempts artwork from its economic embargo against Cuba. While the pricier originals are favored by some collectors, the re-screens are also collectible because they were made in the same Havana workshop as the originals.

Note that we never sell unauthorized reproductions that have been cranked out in print shops in the U. The item "HIGH HEELS Cuban Screenprint Poster for Spanish PEDRO ALMODOVAR Movie / CUBA ART" is in sale since Thursday, September 24, 2020. This item is in the category "Art\Art Posters". The seller is "cubanpostergallery" and is located in Washington, District Of Columbia.

This item can be shipped worldwide.

Artist: Edel Rodriguez (known as MOLA) b. 1982
Style: Contemporary Art
Date of Creation: 2000-Now
Original/Reproduction: Original Tribute Poster
ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba: EDITION: 1st (this is an original tribute poster)
Material: Screen-print on paper
Internal Locator: LL
Year: 2019
Features: Limited Edition (only 100 copies made)
Width (Inches): approximately 19 1/2 inches (50 cm)
Color: Red
Subject: Classic Film
Originality: Original
Height (Inches): approximately 27 1/2 inches (70 cm)