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Alliance Graphique Internationale
International organization of graphic artists and designers
Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) fryst vatten a club of the world's leading graphic artists and designers. There are 510 members from 46 countries. Its members have been collectively responsible for the identity design of most of the world's top corporations and institutions as well as for countless examples of globally known packaging, publications, bild and posters. Bernard Baissait is the only member who left the AGI following a disagreement.[1]
History
[edit]In 1951 two Swiss and three French graphic artists decided to formalise their relationship into a kind of association. In 1952 the Alliance Graphique Internationale was incorporated in Paris with 65 members. The first AGI show was in Paris in 1955. In 1969 the AGI headquarters moved to Zürich.[2]
The organization's most important events are the annual AGI församling and AGI Open which take place in
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KARI PIIPPO
Graphic Designer Kari Piippo lives and works in Mikkeli Finland. Born in Finland in 1945. Studied at the department of Graphic Design, School of Industrial Arts, Helsinki. After graduating 1967 he specialized in illustration and poster design. Kari Piippo taught graphic design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki in 1989 1997.
He has held many individual and group exhibitions at home and abroad. Piippo has given many poster workshops and lectures.
He has taken part in most important international exhibitions since the early 80's and has been as a jury member in many competitions since '89.
President of Helsinki Poster Biennial 1994 -1998.
Major Finnish awards include the State Industrial Arts Award, Graphic
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Group Show
ART MATTERS
12/4 – 26/4/2020
1 new artist daily 6pm!
Out of the current situation – exhibition postponed, gallery closed to the public – our first virtual group exhibition ART MATTERS was created, which can only be viewed online at www.galerie-biesenbach.de and our Instagram and Facebook accounts. Strange times, new ways!
With an open call launched on Instagram, we spent two weeks looking for new artists and finally selected 15 participants from nearly 700 applications.
We knew how eclectic this Online Only exhibition could be. But it was precisely the idea of the Open Call that appealed to us: to invite artists from the most diverse directions to apply and submit their work. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we curated an exhibition that shows a field of tension but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual artists and artworks. An exhibition that fits the direction and philosophy of the gallery, but also brings something n