Harry Stendhal Presents Fluxus / George Maciunas No Smoking Screen Print Portfolio of 4 Images

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 12, 2012

Stendhal Gallery in collaboration with George Maciunas Foundation Inc. is pleased to announce the pre-publication of Fluxus / George Maciunas No Smoking screen print portfolio of 4 images measuring in size 40 x 40 (101.6 cm x 101.6 cm) each hand pulled screen-printed on Lana Quarelle paper from France.

George Maciunass extreme dislike of smoking was at once very personalhis seriously poor health made him sensitive to smoke and a political onein the face of all the collective Fluxus work to be done, smoking seemed to him frivolous, self-indulgent and decadent. It was this combination of the personal and political that compelled Maciunas to develop fellow Fluxus artist George Brechts idea for a no smoking sign (c. 1963) into an innovative visual graphic, which both traded on and countered corporate advertising of the day.

Maciunas was a highly skilled typographer and graphic designer. He did commercial work to seek out a living, but used non-commercial venues to experiment with new ways of representing ideas in graphic form. His multi-disciplinary studies in architecture, art and graphic design at Cooper Union, in architecture and musicology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and in art history at NYUs Institute of Fine Arts, exposed him to an array of visual informationfrom musical scores to architectural blueprintsgiving him the tools to develop his unique graphic style. We see this early on in his ambitious information charts, begun in the late 1950s, which trace developments in the histories of art and world events, covering antiquity to the present.

As a society we are now much more aware of the grave health risks of cigarettes to smokers themselves but also to those inhaling second-hand smoke. Despite the disappearance of the Marlboro Man in most countries, tobacco ads continue to be ubiquitous, using clever brand management to attract new (and increasingly younger) customers. A 1996 ruling by the FDA revealed how tobacco companies were using cartoon characters as brand logos and pushing sales policies that targeted minors and sought to prevent such strategies obtain the design in small sign, poster or wallpaper format. Contrary to glossy, seamless corporate advertising aimed at manipulating desires to turn a profit, Maciunass unconventional aesthetic actually calls attention to the way image and text are constructed to convey a thought-provoking social message.

Artist: Fluxus / George Maciunas

Title: No Smoking

Medium: Hand Pulled Screenprint

Paper: Hand-made Lana Quarelle Paper from France

Size: 40 x 40 (101.6 cm x 101.6 cm)

Year: 1971/2012

Publication Date: March, 2012

Portfolio of 4 images

Pre Publication Price: $ 2500.00

Edition Size: 250

Published by Stendhal Gallery collaboration with George Maciunas Foundation Inc.

Each portfolio is accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed numbered and dated by chairman of George Maciunas Foundation Inc.

For a limited time, the portfolio will be available for special pre-publication price of $ 2,500 in March, 2012. After the publication, price will increase to $ 4,000.

For more information, please contact to George Maciunas Foundation Inc.

George Maciunas Foundatin Inc.

454 West 19th Street. New York. NY 11011

(212)-675-4392 | info@georgemaciunas.com

George Maciunas Foundation Inc. is exempt from Federal income tax under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

Contributions to the George Maciunas Foundation Inc. are deductible under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code

George Maciunas Foundation Inc. is qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code

Federal Tax Id Number: 26-3178359

George Maciunas Foundation Inc. is a public charity

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